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Shattered Bonds is a stirring account of a worsening American social crisis--the disproportionate representation of black children in the U.S. foster care system and its effects on black communities and the country as a whole. Tying the origins and impact of this disparity to racial injustice, Dorothy Roberts contends that child-welfare policy reflects a political choice to address startling rates of black child poverty by punishing parents instead of tackling poverty's societal roots. Using conversations with mothers battling the Chicago child-welfare system for custody of their children, along with national data, Roberts levels a powerful indictment of racial disparities in foster care and tells a moving story of the women and children who earn our respect in their fight to keep their families intact.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Social welfare & social services

• Full title: Shattered Bonds
• Subtitle: The Color of Child Welfare
• Author: Dorothy Roberts
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780465070596
• ISBN: 0465070590
• ID: 04613431
• Publisher: Basic Civitas Books
• Weight: 499 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. December 2002

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