The Second Edition of Profane Justice has been expanded and updated for 2001, and covers the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. It truly is a comprehensive guide for parents who want to know what to expect during a child abuse/neglect investigation and court case. The book exposes the motivation and deceit behing child protection and gives you the tools you need to protect your family from unwarranted intrusions by the state.
Suzanne Shell describes herself as a mom who has researched and written extensively on the issue of child welfare. As a former foster child, she knows firsthand the life-long detrimental effects visited upon a child that are caused by well-intentioned government interference into a family's autonomy and privacy without justifiable cause. Accordingly, her viewpoints reflect the importance of their own parents and extended family in the life of a child.
She acknowledges that this is a radically unique perspective in the child welfare industry, yet it is not as inconsistent with the states' mandates to protect children from child abuse and neglect as the states would have the public believe. To that end, Ms. Shell has created uniquely powerful and effective alternatives to "business as usual" practiced by both the professionals who administer these cases and families who are the subject of these cases.
Her books and other writings spawned the grassroots family rights movement in the 1990's. Her strategies have proven to be so successful that they have been duplicated and disseminated by virtually every organization advocating for the fundamental human right to family association and parental rights.
Her work includes the creation and presentation of accredited Continuing Legal Education courses for professions who practice in this area of law, as well as training and education for family members involved with child welfare agencies, and for professionals who administer these cases.
She has traveled the county, testifying before legislative bodies, and speaking on this subject to public assemblies and offering her own presentations for fifteen years.
