Pitiful Plaintiffs: Child Welfare Litigation and the Federal Courts

by Susan Gluck Mezey

Book Overview

Focusing on a class action lawsuit against the Illinois child welfare system (B. H. v. Johnson), Pitiful Plaintiffs examines the role of the federal courts in the child welfare policymaking process and the extent to which litigation can achieve the goal of reforming child welfare systems. Beginning in the 1970s, children\u2019s advocates asked the federal courts to intervene in the child welfare policymaking process. Their weapons were, for the most...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822957175
• ISBN13: 9780822957171
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"