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Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare
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Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare Hardback - 2001

by Dorothy 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.

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JORNELL DOMINATES THE MEETINGS of the group she started for mothers whose children were taken by the child welfare department.

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  • Title Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare
  • Author Dorothy Roberts
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 341
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Civitas Books, NY
  • Publication date December 18, 2001
  • ISBN 9780465070589 / 0465070582
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.42 x 6.46 x 1.11 in (23.93 x 16.41 x 2.82 cm)
  • Reading level 1540
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects Child welfare - United States, Foster children - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001043139
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.708
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