How the "Child Welfare" System Destroys Black Families (w/ Dorothy Roberts)
This episode originally aired on November 15, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs !
Is our “child welfare” system successfully helping protect kids from neglect and abuse? Or is it inflicting widespread trauma through unnecessary, unjustifiable family separation? Dorothy Roberts, professor of law and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, has long been one of the country’s most deeply-informed critics of “child protective services,” which she argues systematically target poor Black mothers whose only parenting error is to be poor. Roberts is the author of Torn…
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