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Shattered Bonds: The Color Of Child Welfare Paperback – December 25, 2002

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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 extensive 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 percentages of children in substitute care, the difficulty that poor and black families have in meeting state's standards for regaining custody of children placed in foster care, and the relationship between state supervision of families and continuing racial inequality.
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    December 25, 2002
  7. ISBN-10
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"A provocative argument stressing community over individual responsibility." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Passionate, meticulously researched...not afraid to spark controversy." -- Linda Villarosa, Ms. Magazine

About the Author

Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania. She is also founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society in the Center for Africana Studies. Her major books include Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century; Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare, and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0465070590
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Civitas Books; Reprint edition (December 25, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780465070596
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0465070596
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 1 year and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches
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Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School, where she is also the inaugural Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She is the author of Killing the Black Body, Shattered Bonds, Fatal Invention, and Torn Apart. She lives in Philadelphia, PA.

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Nadnayo
5.0 out of 5 stars Ultimate Genocide
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2018
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Great information in this book. The Child Welfare System is just one aspect of The System of White Supremacy of White Supremacy. When all aspect of people activity is under the control of White Supremacists there can be only one conclusion, Black People will suffer great harm if not death. There is no future without children and perhaps Black People have to come to grips with the fact that just maybe, we don't love our children enough to save them, because if we did, then we would not have let the abuse of our children go on for over 500 years. When you put aside all of the alarming statistics and painful quotes with regards to Black People in this book, there is only one conclusion that can be made, Genocide Is Inevitable for Black People on the planet!
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5.0 out of 5 stars I bought this for a class a few years ago ...
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I bought this for a class a few years ago and I still refer to it when debating some idiot who insists that women are favored by the courts in custody battles. Striking and poignant, this book really opened my eyes to the plight of women without rights to their children. It also put in perspective the role of hero/savior that we assign to single fathers with sole custody in our society. Sickening, but worth the read!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommend
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2017
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Highly recommend this book. It's a real eye opener not only for those working in social services but for every person who cares about children and the state of our child welfare system in this country.
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5.0 out of 5 stars PRISON ABOLITION NOW!
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I hear the author on the radio and knew I had to get this book, see her on youtube as she examine the PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX with BLACK WOMEN as the latest VICTIMS OF THE NEW JIM CROW. END MASS INCARCERATION NOW!
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Trish T.
4.0 out of 5 stars An important and well researched book!
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Dorothy Roberts is an excellent writer, and I learned a great deal from reading this book. There is very little justice for too many Black and low income families in this country!
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very interesting glad I purchased this book....
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