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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and Abolition Can Build a Safer World
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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and Abolition Can Build a Safer World in Franklin, TN
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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. But as
Torn Apart
uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. 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. Child protection investigations ensnare a majority of Black children, putting their families under intense state surveillance and regulation. Black children are disproportionately likely to be torn from their families and placed in foster care, driving many to juvenile detention and imprisonment.
The only way to stop the destruction caused by family policing,
argues, is to abolish the child welfare system and liberate Black communities.
Finalist for the
Los Angeles Times
Book Prize for Current Interest
The New Jim Crow
)
Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as
Torn Apart
uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. 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. Child protection investigations ensnare a majority of Black children, putting their families under intense state surveillance and regulation. Black children are disproportionately likely to be torn from their families and placed in foster care, driving many to juvenile detention and imprisonment.
The only way to stop the destruction caused by family policing,
argues, is to abolish the child welfare system and liberate Black communities.
Finalist for the
Los Angeles Times
Book Prize for Current Interest
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. But as
Torn Apart
uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. 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. Child protection investigations ensnare a majority of Black children, putting their families under intense state surveillance and regulation. Black children are disproportionately likely to be torn from their families and placed in foster care, driving many to juvenile detention and imprisonment.
The only way to stop the destruction caused by family policing,
argues, is to abolish the child welfare system and liberate Black communities.
Finalist for the
Los Angeles Times
Book Prize for Current Interest
The New Jim Crow
)
Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as
Torn Apart
uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. 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. Child protection investigations ensnare a majority of Black children, putting their families under intense state surveillance and regulation. Black children are disproportionately likely to be torn from their families and placed in foster care, driving many to juvenile detention and imprisonment.
The only way to stop the destruction caused by family policing,
argues, is to abolish the child welfare system and liberate Black communities.
Finalist for the
Los Angeles Times
Book Prize for Current Interest
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