The Politics of Child Abuse in America (Child welfare)
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (775 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195089308 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ingenious book. Traci 88 This book is fascinating, even if it is older. (It's still relevant, I mean.) It inspires me to learn more on the subjectThanks!
Pelton, Ph.D., School of Social Work, Salem State College. They explain the concepts that have guided the system, past and present, and develop and overarching interpretive framework that fits the facts well while accounting for how the system has evolved toward the crisis that it is presently in. In the last several decades concern with child abuse has taken center stage. The authors provide a clear, integrated, conceptual historical perspective on the rise of the current child welfare system. The authors jump right into today's heated debates, and emerge with their own unique entry to the current field of proposals for restructuring the system."--Leroy H. "Excellent and provocative."--Choice"Central to the future of a nation is how it treats or allows its children to be treated. Yet the issue is not child abuse, but how child abuse is defined and addressed. No topic in our time is more important than what we as a nation do to protect o
David Stoesz is Professor of Social Work at San Diego State University.. Costin is Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois. Howard Jacob Karger is Professor of Social Work at the University of Houston. Lela B
Moreover, the media's focus on the sensational details of high-visibility sexual abuse cases has helped to trivialize, if not commercialize, the child abuse problem. By the 1980s the child welfare system had become a virtual "nonsystem," marked by a staggering turnover of staff, unmanageable caseloads, a severe shortage of funding, and caseloads composed of highly dysfunctional families (many with drug-related problems). This redefinition would make it congruent with other family-based social trends, including the crackdown on domestic violence. To make room for these families, public agencies rationed services by increasingly screening-out child abuse reports which contained little likelihood of serious bodily harm. This "rediscovery" has also led to the frenzied pursuit of offenders, resulting in the sacrifice of some innocent people. One contradiction is the rapidly expanding child abuse industry (made up of enterprising psychotherapists and attorneys) which is consuming enormous resources, while thousands of poor children are seriously injured or killed, many while being "protected" by public agencies. Children must have the same legal protection currently extended to physically and sexually abused women. As such, child abuse has gone from a social problem to a social spectacle. This can be done by creating a "Children's Authority," which would have the overall charge for protecting children. Specifically, Children's Authorities would have the responsi