Katrin Križ, Janese Free, and Grant Kuehl
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190459567
- eISBN:
- 9780190459581
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190459567.003.0009
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
This chapter discusses how children at risk of maltreatment are removed from home in the United States. We discuss the legislative framework and the processes and agents involved in the ...
More
This chapter discusses how children at risk of maltreatment are removed from home in the United States. We discuss the legislative framework and the processes and agents involved in the decision-making process around removal, including child protection agencies and courts. The chapter presents evidence on several major blind spots in the system, including bias and delays in decision-making. Thus, it reveals the need for further research on how these blind spots impact children and their families, as well as on the impact of programs that aim at improving them. Further, this chapter also underscores the need for systemic change to ensure that bias can be eliminated and children and parents, especially those with the least amount of resources, also can be engaged and empowered users of the system.Less
This chapter discusses how children at risk of maltreatment are removed from home in the United States. We discuss the legislative framework and the processes and agents involved in the decision-making process around removal, including child protection agencies and courts. The chapter presents evidence on several major blind spots in the system, including bias and delays in decision-making. Thus, it reveals the need for further research on how these blind spots impact children and their families, as well as on the impact of programs that aim at improving them. Further, this chapter also underscores the need for systemic change to ensure that bias can be eliminated and children and parents, especially those with the least amount of resources, also can be engaged and empowered users of the system.
Diana Marre and Laura Briggs (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814791011
- eISBN:
- 9780814764473
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814791011.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
In the past two decades, transnational adoption has exploded in scope and significance, growing up along increasingly globalized economic relations and the development and improvement of reproductive ...
More
In the past two decades, transnational adoption has exploded in scope and significance, growing up along increasingly globalized economic relations and the development and improvement of reproductive technologies. A complex and understudied system, transnational adoption opens a window onto the relations between nations, the inequalities of the rich and the poor, and the history of race and racialization. Transnational adoption has been marked by the geographies of unequal power, as children move from poorer countries and families to wealthier ones, yet little work has been done to synthesize its complex and sometimes contradictory effects. Rather than focusing only on the United States, as much previous work on the topic does, this book considers the perspectives of a number of sending countries as well as other receiving countries, particularly in Europe. The book also reminds us that the United States also sends children into international adoptions—particularly children of color. The book thus complicates the standard scholarly treatment of the subject, which tends to focus on the tensions between those who argue that transnational adoption is an outgrowth of American wealth, power, and military might (as well as a rejection of adoption from domestic foster care) and those who maintain that it is about a desire to help children in need.Less
In the past two decades, transnational adoption has exploded in scope and significance, growing up along increasingly globalized economic relations and the development and improvement of reproductive technologies. A complex and understudied system, transnational adoption opens a window onto the relations between nations, the inequalities of the rich and the poor, and the history of race and racialization. Transnational adoption has been marked by the geographies of unequal power, as children move from poorer countries and families to wealthier ones, yet little work has been done to synthesize its complex and sometimes contradictory effects. Rather than focusing only on the United States, as much previous work on the topic does, this book considers the perspectives of a number of sending countries as well as other receiving countries, particularly in Europe. The book also reminds us that the United States also sends children into international adoptions—particularly children of color. The book thus complicates the standard scholarly treatment of the subject, which tends to focus on the tensions between those who argue that transnational adoption is an outgrowth of American wealth, power, and military might (as well as a rejection of adoption from domestic foster care) and those who maintain that it is about a desire to help children in need.
Kathleen Nolan
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816675524
- eISBN:
- 9781452947532
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816675524.003.0002
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
This chapter details the origins of police control within urban schools. There have been a disproportionate number of arrests of children of color—an alarming trend that illustrates the national ...
More
This chapter details the origins of police control within urban schools. There have been a disproportionate number of arrests of children of color—an alarming trend that illustrates the national “zero tolerance” policy of maintaining the social order. This trend is unfortunately not a recent development, as the issue of containing the “dangerous other” became paramount beginning with the latter half of the nineteenth century, during the Industrial Era, when society attempted to address the presence of immigrants within local shores. At first the efforts to contain were relegated to prisons and crime control, but later on that same discrimination eventually took hold of educational institutions, in the form of disorderly, police-controlled, and racially segregated schools where much of the blame can be conveniently laid upon the marginalized student population.Less
This chapter details the origins of police control within urban schools. There have been a disproportionate number of arrests of children of color—an alarming trend that illustrates the national “zero tolerance” policy of maintaining the social order. This trend is unfortunately not a recent development, as the issue of containing the “dangerous other” became paramount beginning with the latter half of the nineteenth century, during the Industrial Era, when society attempted to address the presence of immigrants within local shores. At first the efforts to contain were relegated to prisons and crime control, but later on that same discrimination eventually took hold of educational institutions, in the form of disorderly, police-controlled, and racially segregated schools where much of the blame can be conveniently laid upon the marginalized student population.
