Catching a Case : : Inequality and Fear in New York City's Child Welfare System / / Tina Lee.
Influenced by news reports of young children brutalized by their parents, most of us see the role of child services as the prevention of severe physical abuse. But as Tina Lee shows in Catching a Case, most child welfare cases revolve around often ill-founded charges of neglect, and the parents swep...
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Lee, Tina, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Catching a Case : Inequality and Fear in New York City's Child Welfare System / Tina Lee. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (258 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A History of Child Welfare in New York City -- 3. The Life of a Child Welfare Case -- 4. Fear and a System in Crisis -- 5. Policing versus Helping in Child Welfare -- 6. Defining Neglect and Risk Assessment in Practice -- 7. Power in Child Welfare: Compliance and Rights -- 8. Re-creating Stratified Reproduction and System Change -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Influenced by news reports of young children brutalized by their parents, most of us see the role of child services as the prevention of severe physical abuse. But as Tina Lee shows in Catching a Case, most child welfare cases revolve around often ill-founded charges of neglect, and the parents swept into the system are generally struggling but loving, fighting to raise their children in the face of crushing poverty, violent crime, poor housing, lack of childcare, and failing schools. Lee explored the child welfare system in New York City, observing family courts, interviewing parents and following them through the system, asking caseworkers for descriptions of their work and their decision-making processes, and discussing cases with attorneys on all sides. What she discovered about the system is troubling. Lee reveals that, in the face of draconian budget cuts and a political climate that blames the poor for their own poverty, child welfare practices have become punitive, focused on removing children from their families and on parental compliance with rules. Rather than provide needed help for families, case workers often hold parents to standards almost impossible for working-class and poor parents to meet. For instance, parents can be accused of neglect for providing inadequate childcare or housing even when they cannot afford anything better. In many cases, child welfare exacerbates family problems and sometimes drives parents further into poverty while the family court system does little to protect their rights. Catching a Case is a much-needed wake-up call to improve the child welfare system, and to offer more comprehensive social services that will allow all children to thrive. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Child abuse New York (State) New York. Child welfare New York (State) New York. Discrimination New York (State) New York. Family services New York (State) New York. Low-income parents New York (State) New York. Social service New York (State) New York. POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110666144 print 9780813576145 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813576169 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813576169 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780813576169.jpg |
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