Abstract
This piece is a written version of Professor Dorothy Roberts' keynote speech at the Columbia Journal of Race and Law's 11th annual symposium, titled Strengthened Bonds: Abolishing the Child Welfare System and Re-Envisioning Child Well-Being.
Highlights
My book Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare, published in 2001, documented the racial realities of family policing in America
More than a half million children had been taken from their parents by child protection services (CPS) and were in foster care.[1]
There were numerous reform efforts to reduce what became known as racial disproportionality in foster care; the prison abolition movement expanded; and organizing by parents and children impacted by the child welfare system strengthened
Summary
My book Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare, published in 2001, documented the racial realities of family policing in America. More than a half million children had been taken from their parents by child protection services (CPS) and were in foster care.[1] Black families were the most likely of any group to be torn apart.
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