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
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
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
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
It is inappropriate to call child protection "care" when experiences of the system are not "care"-like for everyone. "Care" essentializes the softening of a system that has a violent colonial history of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and has continued to feed its children into pipelines of homelessness and housing instability, poverty, prison and other problematic and violent systems. It fails to acknowledge that it is a system, one of which is plagued with the overrepresentation of Indigenous a ...more
Cheyanne Ratnam

Vivian Schey
Most males are thinking that half of a child they've made belongs to them. But that's just wrong. Because they give only half of a plan for building the baby, and all the rest is done by mama alone. So, guys: think twice before saying "The half of this child is mine. ...more
Vivian Schey

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