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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World - Roberts, Dorothy
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"An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical change Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system is better understood as a "family policing system" that collaborates with law enforcement and prisons to oppress Black communities. Child protection ...

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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World 2023, Basic Books

ISBN-13: 9781541675469

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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World 2022, Basic Books

ISBN-13: 9781541675445

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