Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare

Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare

PAPERBACK

25 Dec, 2002

The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their attempt to...

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ISBN-10:

0465070590

ISBN-13:

9780465070596

Publisher

Basic Books

Dimensions

8.90 X 6.00 X 1.10 inches

Language

English

Description

The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children.
Shattered Bonds tells this story as no other book has before -- from the perspective of a prominent black, female legal theoretician. The current state of the child-welfare system in America is a well-known tragedy. Thousands of children every year are removed from their parents' homes, often for little reason other than the endemic poverty that afflicts women and children more than any other group in the United States.
Dorothy Roberts, an acclaimed legal scholar and social critic, reveals the racial politics of child welfare in America through extensive legal research and original interviews with Chicago families in the foster care system. She describes the racial imbalance in foster care, the concentration of state intervention in certain neighborhoods, the alarming percentages of children in substitute care, the difficulty that poor and black families have in meeting state's standards for regaining custody of children placed in foster care, and the relationship between state supervision of families and continuing racial inequality.

Product Details

ISBN-10

:0465070590

ISBN-13

:9780465070596

Publisher

:Basic Books

Publication date

: 25 Dec, 2002

Category

: Political Science

Format

:PAPERBACK

Language

:English

Reading Level

: All

No. of Units

:1

Dimension

: 8.90 X 6.00 X 1.10 inches

Weight

:431 g

About the Author

Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania. She is also founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society in the Center for Africana Studies. Her major books include Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century; Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare, and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty.

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