Janina Edwards's voice is direct and concise. Her narration captures the author’s tone of serious consideration. While the mainstream public may view child protective services as benevolent, if underfunded, state agencies seeking to provide support and care for children at risk, Roberts provides insight into their systemic racism and bias. These entrenched interventional models lead to traumatic family separations arising from children being needlessly placed in foster care. Worse, Black families are disproportionately affected by a wide margin. Roberts’s audiobook makes the case for abolition with a vision of how a different system could actually help families without criminalizing them. Edwards's performance gives the appropriate level of gravitas to this difficult subject. S.P.C. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
An award-winning¿scholar¿exposes*the¿foundational racism¿of the¿child welfare system¿and calls for radical*change*
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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 investigations ensnare*a majority of*Black children,*putting*their families under intense state surveillance and regulation. Black children are disproportionately likely to be torn from their families and*placed*in foster care, driving many to juvenile detention and imprisonment.*
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The only way to stop the destruction caused by family policing,*Torn Apart*argues, is to abolish the child welfare system and liberate Black communities.
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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 investigations ensnare*a majority of*Black children,*putting*their families under intense state surveillance and regulation. Black children are disproportionately likely to be torn from their families and*placed*in foster care, driving many to juvenile detention and imprisonment.*
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The only way to stop the destruction caused by family policing,*Torn Apart*argues, is to abolish the child welfare system and liberate Black communities.
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
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 investigations ensnare*a majority of*Black children,*putting*their families under intense state surveillance and regulation. Black children are disproportionately likely to be torn from their families and*placed*in foster care, driving many to juvenile detention and imprisonment.*
*
The only way to stop the destruction caused by family policing,*Torn Apart*argues, is to abolish the child welfare system and liberate Black communities.
*
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 investigations ensnare*a majority of*Black children,*putting*their families under intense state surveillance and regulation. Black children are disproportionately likely to be torn from their families and*placed*in foster care, driving many to juvenile detention and imprisonment.*
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The only way to stop the destruction caused by family policing,*Torn Apart*argues, is to abolish the child welfare system and liberate Black communities.
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BN ID: | 2940176074086 |
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Publisher: | Hachette Audio |
Publication date: | 04/05/2022 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
Sales rank: | 1,129,103 |
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