Waubonsee Community College

Nobody's children, abuse and neglect, foster drift, and the adoption alternative, Elizabeth Bartholet

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-291) and index

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Nobody's children

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Elizabeth Bartholet

"Nobody's Children is an intense look at how we treat children in crisis. Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Bartholet, one of the nation's leading experts on family and civil rights law, challenges the accepted orthodoxy that views children as exclusive possessions of their kinship and their racial groups and locks them into inadequate biological and foster homes. She asks us to apply the lessons learned from the battered women's movement as we consider battered children, and to question why family preservation ideology still reigns supreme when children rather than adult women are involved." "Bartholet assesses promising new developments in the policy world, and warns of the pitfalls that threaten real progress."--Jacket

abuse and neglect, foster drift, and the adoption alternative

The inherited tradition: parenting rights and state wrongs -- The politics -- Modern-day orphans -- Underintervention vs. overintervention -- Traditional programs weather the storm -- "New" programs promote traditional ideas -- Intervening early with home visitation -- Taking adoption seriously -- Substance abuse -- Race, poverty, and historic injustice