NOBODY'S CHILDREN
Subtitle: Abuse and Neglect, Foster Drift, and the Adoption Alternative
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: October 10, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780807023181
Subjects: Human Services; Social Work; Foster Care Services; Adoption And Adoption Services; United States; Social Science; Sociology; Institutional care; Government policy; Abuse - General; Adoption; Family & Relationships / Adoption; Child abuse; Child welfare; Children
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET. "Bartholet assesses promising new developments in the policy world, and warns of the pitfalls that threaten real progress."--BOOK JACKET.