<<">>When the welfare people come" : race and class in the US child protection system / Don Lash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lash, Don, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child welfare--United States.

Child welfare.

Foster home care--United States.

Foster home care.

Parent and child--United States.

Parent and child.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Haymart Books, 2017.

Summary:

In this groundbreaking look at the history and politics of the US child welfare system, 'When the Welfare People Come' exposes the system in its totality, from child protective investigation to foster care and mandated services, arguing that it constitutes a mechanism of control exerted over poor and working class parents and children.

Contents:

The "orphan trains" : then and now

Moving toward a racialized child welfare system

Parents with disabilities

Foster youth

Foster parents

Juvenile "justice"

Toiling inside the bureaucracy

The future of child welfare

Real reform

Child welfare and social reproduction

Socialism and the parent-child relationship

Appendix : from rights to reality : a plan for parent advocacy and family-centered child welfare reform.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 17, 2017).

ISBN:

1-60846-750-3

OCLC:

972292236