num_pages: 192
description: 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
language: English
title: Wasted: The Plight of America's Unwanted Children
titlecomplete: Wasted: The Plight of America's Unwanted Children
ratings_count: 14
publisher: Ivan R. Dee