Shattered Bonds The Color of Child Welfare

Dorothy Roberts, Allyson Johnson

eAudio - 2021

The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children. Shattered Bonds tells this story as no other book has before — from the perspective of a prominent black, female legal theoretician. The current state of the child-welfare system in America is a well-known tragedy. Thousands of children every year are removed from their parents' homes, often for little reason other than the endemic poverty that afflicts women and children more than any other group in the United States.Dorothy Roberts, an acclaimed legal scholar and social critic, reveals the racial politics of child welfare in America through extensi...ve legal research and original interviews with Chicago families in the foster care system. She describes the racial imbalance in foster care, the concentration of state intervention in certain neighborhoods, the alarming... more