Disposable Children
Subtitle: America's Child Welfare System (Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice Series)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing; Wadsworth Pub.
Published: November 12, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780534264666
Subjects: Adolescents; Anthropology; Child welfare; Children; Crime & criminology; Social work with children; History & Surveys - Modern; United States; Social Welfare Services For Special Classes; Social Science; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Textbooks; Sociology; USA; General; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Law / Criminal Procedure; Criminology; Criminal Procedure; Family services; Government policy
Description: Complex and knotted issues are untangled as author Renny Golden offers an incisive and detailed critical analysis of each arm of today's system, revealing a bureaucracy lurching from crisis to crisis and failing to keep children safe and whole. Tragedy, however, does not have the last word here.

Drawing from the research of the family support movement and from community and youth development initiatives, Golden offers examples of innovative community-directed efforts to build the support necessary to prevent family and social breakdown.