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Shattered Bonds

The Color of Child Welfare

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Shattered Bonds

By: Dorothy Roberts
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson, 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 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.

©2021 Dorothy Roberts (P)2021 Random House Audio
African American Studies Americas Black & African American Politics & Government Public Policy Social Social Policy Social Sciences Specific Demographics United States Child Welfare
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Overall great book with great insight on some of the things that black families face in America.

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Yet another book that should be part of the required reading list in required coursework for everyone. all high school & college students, citizens/residents, business persons, everyone in local, state, federal Govt judicial/executive/legislative branches (whether nominated or elected, including their staff

Superb. Should be required reading.

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It wasn't the easiest book to get through for me - it read a bit like a thesis. Plus, I felt so-so about the narrator. But overall, important book, worth reading.

Important, worthwhile read

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