Shattered Bonds

The Color of Child Welfare

Author: Dorothy E. Roberts
ISBN: 9780465070596

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.

Publisher: Basic Books
Publish Date: 2002

Subjects: Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations

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