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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811593903321

Autore

Lash Don

Titolo

"When the welfare people come" : race and class in the US child protection system / / Don Lash

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Illinois : , : Haymart Books, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-60846-750-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 pages)

Disciplina

362.70973

Soggetti

Child welfare - United States

Foster home care - United States

Parent and child - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

The "orphan trains" : then and now -- Moving toward a racialized child welfare system -- Parents with disabilities -- Foster youth -- Foster parents -- Juvenile "justice" -- Toiling inside the bureaucracy -- The future of child welfare -- Real reform -- Child welfare and social reproduction -- Socialism and the parent-child relationship -- Appendix : from rights to reality : a plan for parent advocacy and family-centered child welfare reform.

Sommario/riassunto

In this groundbreaking look at the history and politics of the US child welfare system, 'When the Welfare People Come' exposes the system in its totality, from child protective investigation to foster care and mandated services, arguing that it constitutes a mechanism of control exerted over poor and working class parents and children.