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Lädt ... Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfarevon Dorothy E. Roberts
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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 U.S. 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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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as a book, though, i think her points are all pretty much made in the first 30 pages, and the rest is just supplemental. we would be better served - because more people would read it and we'd have a chance for more change - if this was a long article or paper instead of a book.
(as an aside, at the very end she lists changes that need to be made that would bolster the foundation of society for systemic change to make a difference. they were largely the issues that the progressive presidential candidates had on their platforms this election cycle. so the bad news is that we still haven't made these changes, but the good news is that we're finally talking about them in the mainstream.)
"Child protection authorities are taking custody of Black children at alarming rates, and in doing so, they are dismantling social networks that are critical to Black community welfare."
"...call the child welfare system what it is: a state-run program that disrupts, restructures, and polices Black families."
"The truth is that many poor Black parents fight desperately against a wealthy and powerful system to regain their children. They are often worn down by pointless and burdensome requirements, insidious financial incentives, and racial bias."
"...the foster care system in the nation's cities operates as an apartheid institution."
"Poverty - not the type or severity of maltreatment - is the single most important predictor of placement in foster care and the amount of time spent there."
some of the horrifying stats, from early on in the book:
"In Chicago, 95 percent of the children placed in foster care are Black."
"About 30 percent of the children who live in New York City are white. Yet white children make up on ly 3 percent of its foster care caseload."
"Today, 42 percent of all children in foster care nationwide are Black, even though Black children constitute only 17 percent of the nation's youth."
"More than 70 percent of foster children in San Francisco in 1994 were Black, although Blacks made up only 10 percent of the city's population."