Patrick T. Murphy

Wasted

The Plight of America's Unwanted Children

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The public guardian of Cook County, Illinois, charges that the child welfare bureaucracy, designed to help children, is instead helping to destroy them. "Murphy explains the facts and failures of the child welfare system-and offers solutions-better than any expert I've ever read on the subject....A first-rate read-poignant and instructive."-Edward I. Koch.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ivan R. Dee
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781566633338
• ISBN-10: 1566633338
• Artikelnr.: 21819999

Autorenporträt

Patrick T. Murphy is Public Guardian of Cook County, Illinois, an office unique in the United States. He has also written Our Kindly Parent-the State and among many honors has received the Juvenile Justice Award of the American Bar Association and Criminal Justice Award of the governor of Illinois.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Acknowledgements 7 Part 2 Foreword 13 Part 3 A Third World
Initiation 27 Part 4 Learning the System 37 Part 5 Preserving Families,
Killing Children 58 Part 6 The Underclass 85 Part 7 The Confidentiality
Game 113 Part 8 New Realities 129 Part 9 Wrong Race, Wrong Place 147 Part
10 Orphans in a Strom 162 Part 11 Ideology and Reality 174 Part 12 Index
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