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Torn Apart
How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
Dorothy E. Roberts
2022
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The “Benevolent Terror” of the Child Welfare System
The system's roots aren't in rescuing children, but in the policing of Black, Indigenous, and poor families.
by
Dorothy E. Roberts
,
Nia T. Evans
via
Boston Review
on
March 31, 2022