Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare

by Dorothy Roberts

Book Overview

The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children.
Shattered Bonds tells this story as no other book has before -- from the perspective of a prominent black, female legal theoretician. The current state of the child-welfare system in America is a well-known tragedy. Thousands of children...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465070590
• ISBN13: 9780465070596
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Civitas Book Publisher
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Ms. Roberts Speaks About What People Do Not Want to Hear

I read Ms. Roberts book and believe that she is on target to the destruction of the Black family. The number of African American children in foster care is not a new theory. In fact, Black children have been in the foster care system since slavery. Slavery in itself was a form of foster care. The continued systematic destruction of the black family is caused by poverty, poor education and MISeducation, as well as, a host of factors created by the racism and classification of "minority" for black people. It is very easy to place fault on poor parents but the system pays more money to pull families apart than to help form the bonds of the bloodline. In the state of Missouri, for example, black children make up only 14% of the total population of children in the state. Nonetheless, 44% of all children in the foster care system are black. A highly disproportionate number. One state, but multiply that by all states and the math speaks for itself.I highly recommend this book.