Child Welfare


Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
"When the Welfare People Come": Race and Class in the US Child Protection System
The Glass Castle
The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption
Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption
Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care
Stranger Care
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Roxanna Asgarian
Ain't nobody want to adopt me,' he says. 'I thought if I did good, they would let me get back with my brothers, but when they didnt' I said fuck it. ...more
Roxanna Asgarian, We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Emi Nietfeld
Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will.
Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

More quotes...