James G. Dwyer

Liberal Child Welfare Policy and its Destruction of Black Lives (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a child-centered perspective on the inter-generational cycle of poverty and dysfunction in urban ghettos by combining a wealth of information with sophisticated normative analysis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351109970
• Artikelnr.: 56839801

Autorenporträt

James G. Dwyer is the Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law at William & Mary School of Law, USA, where he teaches Youth Law, Family Law, and Law & Social Justice. He has previously served as Guardian ad Litem for children in the Albany, NY area; on the Virginia Governor's Task Force on Expediting Adoptions; and on the Virginia Bar Association Family Law Legislation Committee. He authored the book The Relationship Rights of Children, as well as books on regulation and financing of schools and on children's moral status, in addition to dozens of articles on child welfare law.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I. THE CYCLE
Chapter 1: The world black children enter Black America
Inner-city impoverished neighborhoods
Parental dysfunction
Community dysfunction
Chapter 2: How we perpetuate the cycle
Pre-natal harm
The state's bad parentage decision-making
Attachment failure
Hostile residential environment
Foster care decision-making
Lack of preparation for school
Bad schools
Direct neighborhood effects
PART II. BREAKING THE CYCLE
Chapter 3: Conception and pre-natal life
Prevent people unfit to parent from Conceiving
Prevent pregnant women from harming the fetus
Justifying pregnancy-related coercion
Chapter 4: Sparing children from unfit parents
Steps to appropriate state parentage decision-making for newborns
Justifying better parentage decision-making
Chapter 5: Separating children from bad neighborhoods
Failure of the liberal approach
Family law decisions that can relocate children
No-child residential areas
Justifying separation of children from blight
PART III. LIBERAL SUPPORTS FOR THE CYCLE
Chapter 6: Liberal's search for the Holy Grail
The magic pill for reducing maltreatment rates
Fighting back against the carceral state by imprisoning babies
Chapter 7: Understanding and overcoming liberal resistance
The liberal mindset
The conservative mindset
Conclusion
Appendix
Index