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No way to treat a child, how the foster care system, family courts, and racial activists are wrecking young lives, [Naomi Schaefer Riley]

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

No way to treat a child

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[Naomi Schaefer Riley]

how the foster care system, family courts, and racial activists are wrecking young lives

Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe--all with the inevitable result that their most precious developmental years are lost in bureaucratic and judicial red tape. It is time to stop letting efforts to fix the child welfare system get derailed by activists who are concerned with race-matching, blood ties, and the abstract demands of social justice, and start asking the most important question: Where are the emotionally and financially stable, loving, and permanent homes where these kids can thrive?"Appropriate placement and services for children in foster care typically requires the coordination and collaboration of several different agencies. The Systematic Mistreatment of Children in the Foster Care System shows how these agencies frequently fail to meet their legal obligations to children in the system and what can be done to address these failures and the outcomes they produce."--Back cover