| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 162 pages, 1 unnumbered page) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies in social medicine |
|
Studies in social medicine.
|
| Contents |
Parents anonymous and the whitewashing of child abuse -- The road not taken : social welfare approaches to child abuse -- Too much reporting, too little service -- From child welfare to child removal -- Child abuse in black and white : two moral panics in the 1980s |
| Summary |
"In the early 1970s, a new wave of public service announcements urged parents to 'help end an American tradition' of child abuse. The message, relayed repeatedly over television and radio, urged abusive parents to seek help. Support groups for parents, including Parents Anonymous, proliferated across the country to deal with the seemingly burgeoning crisis. At the same time, an ever-increasing number of abused children were reported to child welfare agencies, due in part to an expansion of mandatory reporting laws and the creation of reporting hotlines across the nation. Here, Mical Raz examines this history of child abuse policy and charts how it changed since the late 1960s, specifically taking into account the frequency with which agencies removed African American children from their homes and placed them in foster care"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR, viewed May 4, 2021) |
| Subject |
Social work with African American children -- History -- 20th century
|
|
Foster home care -- United States
|
|
Child abuse -- Reporting -- United States
|
|
Child abuse -- United States -- Prevention
|
|
Child welfare -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies
|
|
Child abuse -- Prevention
|
|
Child abuse -- Reporting
|
|
Child welfare -- Government policy
|
|
Foster home care
|
|
Social work with African American children
|
|
United States
|
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
|
|
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9781469661230 |
|
1469661233 |
|
