Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. (Book Review)
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2024
Abstract
The American child welfare system was purportedly designed with the intention of helping families by providing safety and permanency. However, in her latest book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World, author Dorothy Roberts makes the case that in practice, the child welfare system is structured to harm more than help because it functions as a tyrannical system and extension of the carceral state, where racial disproportionality thrives. As a result, Roberts reports that Black children make up half of the U.S. foster care population while accounting for less than one-fourth of the nation’s children.
DOI
10.55521/10-021-100
Recommended Citation
Sun, O. N., & Warren Barnes, K. (2024). [Book review: Torn apart: How the child welfare system destroys black Families and how abolition can build a safer world. by D. Roberts]. International Journal of Social Work and Ethics, 21(1), 13. DOI: 10.55521/10-021-100.
