Racial Harm. / Dorothy Roberts.
by Roberts, Dorothy; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 17Family. Publisher: ColorLines, 2002ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Adoption -- Law and legislation | African American children | Child welfare | Foster home care | RacismDDC classification: 050 Summary: "It is often said that American child welfare policy operates like a pendulum. It swings between two main objectives: keeping troubled families together on one end, and protecting children from parental harm on the other. In recent years the pendulum of child welfare philosophy has swung decisively away from preserving families." (COLORLINES) This article examines the reasons why "state agencies are far more likely to place black children who come to their attention in foster care instead of offering their families less traumatic assistance.".
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2003.
Originally Published: Racial Harm, Fall 2002; pp. 19-20.
"It is often said that American child welfare policy operates like a pendulum. It swings between two main objectives: keeping troubled families together on one end, and protecting children from parental harm on the other. In recent years the pendulum of child welfare philosophy has swung decisively away from preserving families." (COLORLINES) This article examines the reasons why "state agencies are far more likely to place black children who come to their attention in foster care instead of offering their families less traumatic assistance.".
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