Liberal child welfare policy and its destruction of black lives / by James G. Dwyer.

First edition.

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2018.

1 online resource (272 pages)

How can we end the inter-generational cycle of poverty and dysfunction in the US's urban ghettos? It is a must read for legal academics, political scientists, urban policy experts, as well as professionals working in social work, law, education, urban planning, legislative offices, and administrative agencies.The rub is that the reforms needed would entail further suffering and loss of liberty for adults in these communities, and liberal advocacy organizations and academics are so adult-centered in their sympathies and thinking that they reflexively oppose any such measures. Liberals have instead promoted one ineffectual parent-focused program after another, in an ideologically-driven quest for the magic pill that can save both adults and children in these communities at the same time. This ground-breaking and controversial book is the first to provide a child-centered perspective on the subject by combining a wealth of social science information with sophisticated normative analysis to support novel reforms-to child protection law and practice, family law, and zoning-that would quickly end that cycle. This `insider critique' of liberal child welfare policyreveals a dilemma that liberals have yet to face squarely: there is an ineradicable conflict of interests between many young children and their parents, especially in areas of concentrated poverty, and one must choose sides.

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