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Torn apart how the child welfare system destroys Black families--and how abolition can build a safer world

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In this book, an award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical change. Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as this book uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of rese...

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Main Author: Roberts, Dorothy E., 1956- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Child welfare > Government policy > United States.
African American families > Government policy.
African American families > Social conditions.
Racism in social services > United States.
Social work with African American children.
African Americans.
Children.
Social history.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : A benevolent terror
  • Terror. Destroying Black families ; "They separate children at the Harlem border, too" ; Professional kidnappers
  • Design. Rotten at the root ; Strong-armed ; The foster-industrial complex
  • The carceral web. Family surveillance ; Carceral entanglements ; Structured to harm ; Criminalizing Black children
  • Abolition. Care in place of terror.

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