Enabling child abuse
Subtitle: how American policy perpetuates abuse and what we can do about it
By: Kathleen Kelley Reardon, Christopher T. Noblet.
Contributors: Noblet, Christopher T.
Publisher: Sage Publications; SAGE
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781412939768; 9781412939775
Subjects: Child abuse -- United States.; Child abuse -- Government policy -- United States.; Abused children -- Government policy -- United States.; Child abuse -- United States -- Prevention.
Description: "Childhood Denied is an expose of how the United States ignores and often discards its most vulnerable children. Delving into the political, legal, and social factors of children at risk for abuse and neglect, it chronicles the plight of abused children across the nation and provides a "report card" for each state. With practical, journalistic, and social scientific approach, this book emboldens child welfare professionals, government representatives, lawmakers, child attorneys, law enforcers, and the general public to respond more effectively and consistently to the needs of children at risk."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Keepers of the plan; title: The best interests of the child; title: Lost in the system: confidentiality and secrecy; title: A brief history of child custody issues related to abuse and neglect; title: Silenced by the law: an even more modest proposal; title: Foster care today; title: Caseworker and police challenges: who you gonna call?; title: The politics of child abuse and neglect.