Breaking families, making families : adoption and child welfare in the 1990s / Mical Raz

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raz, Mical, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997.

United States.

Child welfare--Government policy--United States--History--20th century.

Child welfare.

Adoption--Government policy--United States--History--20th century.

Adoption.

Parental rights--Termination--History--20th century.

Parental rights.

Parental rights--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Other Title:

Adoption and child welfare in the 1990s

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2026]

Summary:

Families in the United States experience child abuse investigations, the removal of children from their homes, and the termination of parental rights at higher rates than peer countries.Yet this does not make them safer and comes at a cost

Contents:

The rise of permanency planning and how it drove an expansion of the termination of parental rights

The contested ascendency of termination of parental rights

Michigan : a laboratory of social welfare policy

The Binsfeld Children’s Commission : organized backlash against family preservation

How conservatives manufactured a new paradigm in child welfare

The political history of the Adoption and Safe Families Act

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed October 1, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Raz, Mical Breaking Families, Making Families

ISBN:

9781469687292

1469687291

9781469694696

1469694697

9781469694719

1469694719

9781469694702

1469694700

OCLC:

1609316149

Publisher Number:

CIPO000413066

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license