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No way to treat a child : how the foster care system, family courts, and racial activists are wrecking young lives / Naomi Schaefer Riley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riley, Naomi Schaefer, author.
- Series:
- Maltreatment, trauma, and interpersonal aggression
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foster children--United States.
- Foster children.
- Foster home care--United States.
- Foster home care.
- Child rearing.
- Abused children--Services for--United States.
- Abused children.
- Child welfare--United States.
- Child welfare.
- Parenting.
- Child Rearing.
- Abused children--Services for.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Child Rearing.
- Parenting.
- Physical Description:
- 298 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bombardier Books, an imprint of Post Hill Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe--all with the inevitable result that their most precious developmental years are lost in bureaucratic and judicial red tape. It is time to stop letting efforts to fix the child welfare system get derailed by activists who are concerned with race-matching, blood ties, and the abstract demands of social justice, and start asking the most important question: Where are the emotionally and financially stable, loving, and permanent homes where these kids can thrive?
- "Appropriate placement and services for children in foster care typically requires the coordination and collaboration of several different agencies. The Systematic Mistreatment of Children in the Foster Care System shows how these agencies frequently fail to meet their legal obligations to children in the system and what can be done to address these failures and the outcomes they produce."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Felicias Story
- Counting Our Failures on the Hands of One Child
- ch. 2 The Tdeology of Family Preservation
- Sacrificing Child Safely for Family Unity
- ch. 3 Blood May Be Thicker, but Its Not Always Better: The Problem with Kinship Care
- ch. 4 Separate and Unequal: How a Racialized Ideology Is Putting Kids in Danger
- ch. 5 The Problem Is Not Poverty, It's Drugs
- ch. 6 Searching for Justice in Family Court
- ch. 7 The Child-Welfare Cartel: Why CPS Investigators Are Underqualified and Undertrained
- ch. 8 Moneyball for Child Welfare: How Big Data Can Help Fix the System
- ch. 9 It's a Hard-Knock Life in Group Homes
- But Possibly Better Than the Alternative
- ch. 10 The Power of Faith: How Religious Communities Are Making Foster Care Stronger
- ch. 11 The War Against Faith-Based Foster Care
- ch. 12 Raising the Bar: Getting Middle-Class Americans to Do Foster Care
- ch. 13 What's Holding Us Back? Changing the Laws and the Politics of Child Welfare.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Riley, Naomi Schaefer. Be the parent, please.
- ISBN:
- 164293657X
- 9781642936575
- OCLC:
- 1277045755
- Publisher Number:
- 99991036037
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