Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World Roberts Dorothy
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World Roberts Dorothy An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child…
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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World Roberts Dorothy
An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and offers a "a brilliant and impassioned call for abolition" (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow)Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system is better understood as a "family policing system" that collaborates with law enforcement and prisons to oppress Black communities. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families.
Black children are disproportionately likely to be torn from their families and placed in foster care, driving many to juvenile detention Child protection investigations ensnare a majority of Black children, putting their families under intense state surveillance and regulation.