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Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare

Dorothy Roberts

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Shattered Bonds is a stirring account of a worsening American social crisis--the disproportionate representation of black children in the U.S. foster care system and its effects on black communities and the country as a whole. Tying the origins and impact of this disparity to racial injustice, Dorothy Roberts contends that child-welfare policy reflects a political choice to address startling rates of black child poverty by punishing parents instead of tackling poverty's societal roots. Using conversations with mothers battling the Chicago child-welfare system for custody of their children, along with national data, Roberts levels a powerful indictment of racial disparities in foster care and tells a moving story of the women and children who earn our respect in their fight to keep their families intact.

Language: English

Pages: 352

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Civitas Books

Release: December 25, 2002

ISBN: 0465070590

ISBN 13: 9780465070596

Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare

Dorothy Roberts

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Shattered Bonds is a stirring account of a worsening American social crisis--the disproportionate representation of black children in the U.S. foster care system and its effects on black communities and the country as a whole. Tying the origins and impact of this disparity to racial injustice, Dorothy Roberts contends that child-welfare policy reflects a political choice to address startling rates of black child poverty by punishing parents instead of tackling poverty's societal roots. Using conversations with mothers battling the Chicago child-welfare system for custody of their children, along with national data, Roberts levels a powerful indictment of racial disparities in foster care and tells a moving story of the women and children who earn our respect in their fight to keep their families intact.

Language: English

Pages: 352

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Civitas Books

Release: December 25, 2002

ISBN: 0465070590

ISBN 13: 9780465070596

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