Child Welfare

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  4/5/2022
  

  I've Studied Child Protective Services for Decades – It Needs to be Abolished Now

  by Dorothy E. Roberts

  Commonly associated with the benevolent social reform movements of the late 19th century, child protective services are also rooted in the institutions that undermined Black parental rights under slavery and Jim Crow. 

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  4/1/2022
  

  Dorothy Roberts on the Punitive Logic of the Child Welfare System

  Legal scholar Dorothy Roberts's new book argues that the child welfare system has historical roots in campaigns of oppression against Black and Native Americans; combined with the financial incentives of privatized social services, the system encourages abuse and exploitation today.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/30/2021
  

  Child Welfare Systems Have Long Harmed Black Children Like Ma’Khia Bryant

  by Crystal Webster

  Although the death of Ma’Khia Bryant has been discussed as yet another example of police violence against Black Americans, it's important to recognize that she was also a victim of a child and family services bureaucracy that has been shaped by racism and left Black children to fend for themselves.