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
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
"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
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
Stranger Care
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Roxanna Asgarian
If you come from privilege,' she explained, 'and you respect money and power, and the people in your court don't have any of that- it's unconcious and sometimes concious racism and classism. ...more
Roxanna Asgarian, We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian
Some kids, when they grown, come back and say, 'Why didn't you fight for us?' And I swear I did. We all did. ...more
Roxanna Asgarian, We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

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