Fixing families : parents, power, and the child welfare system / / Jennifer A. Reich.
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| Superior document: | Perspectives on gender |
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Perspectives on gender (New York, N.Y.)
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| Physical Description: | xi, 356 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Child protection in a historical perspective
- The hated do-gooders : social work in context
- Expected parental behavior : theorizing subordination and deference in investigations
- Reforming parents, reunifying families
- Court-ordered empowerment and the reformation of mothers in CPS
- Biology and conformity : expectations of fathers
- Beyond reunification : when families cannot be fixed
- Conclusion.