When author Kristen Martin lost her own parents to cancer as a child, her experience as an orphan was nothing like that.

The history of government actions to remove children from abusive homes is fraught with hard societal questions.

Christopher Swan knows how hard it can be to make an old-school multi-billionaire amusing and lovable. He has played Daddy Warbucks for three years in the national tour of “Annie.” “He’s loud, rich, ...