How Is That Legal?: Breaking Down Systemic Racism One Law at a Time
Posted by Community Legal Services on June 28, 2022
New Podcast from Community Legal Services:
How Is That Legal?: Breaking Down Systemic Racism One Law at a Time
Child Welfare or Family Policing?
More than one in ten Black children in America will be forcibly separated from their parents and placed in foster care by the time they reach age eighteen.
Professor Dorothy Roberts joins us to discuss the racialized history of parenting, family autonomy, and the child welfare system. From the role of slavery in framing the Black mother to disastrous 90s legislation rooted in racial stereotypes, Professor Roberts makes the case that child welfare was designed to punish the most disenfranchised communities instead of to protect children. After over thirty years of research, Dr. Roberts concludes that abolition is the only way to end the trauma caused by what she calls family policing.
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