Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2001
Abstract
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.
Repository Citation
Roberts, Dorothy E., "Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare" (2001). All Faculty Scholarship. 2777.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/2777
Publication Citation
Basic Books/Civitas, 2001