This book provides a child-centered perspective on the inter-generational cycle of poverty and dysfunction in urban ghettos by combining a wealth of information with sophisticated normative analysis.
This book provides a child-centered perspective on the inter-generational cycle of poverty and dysfunction in urban ghettos by combining a wealth of information with sophisticated normative analysis.
James G. Dwyer is the Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law at William & Mary School of Law, USA, where he teaches Youth Law, Family Law, and Law & Social Justice. He has previously served as Guardian ad Litem for children in the Albany, NY area; on the Virginia Governor's Task Force on Expediting Adoptions; and on the Virginia Bar Association Family Law Legislation Committee. He authored the book The Relationship Rights of Children, as well as books on regulation and financing of schools and on children's moral status, in addition to dozens of articles on child welfare law.
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Acknowledgements Introduction PART I. THE CYCLE Chapter 1: The world black children enter Black America Inner-city impoverished neighborhoods Parental dysfunction Community dysfunction Chapter 2: How we perpetuate the cycle Pre-natal harm The state's bad parentage decision-making Attachment failure Hostile residential environment Foster care decision-making Lack of preparation for school Bad schools Direct neighborhood effects PART II. BREAKING THE CYCLE Chapter 3: Conception and pre-natal life Prevent people unfit to parent from Conceiving Prevent pregnant women from harming the fetus Justifying pregnancy-related coercion Chapter 4: Sparing children from unfit parents Steps to appropriate state parentage decision-making for newborns Justifying better parentage decision-making Chapter 5: Separating children from bad neighborhoods Failure of the liberal approach Family law decisions that can relocate children No-child residential areas Justifying separation of children from blight PART III. LIBERAL SUPPORTS FOR THE CYCLE Chapter 6: Liberal's search for the Holy Grail The magic pill for reducing maltreatment rates Fighting back against the carceral state by imprisoning babies Chapter 7: Understanding and overcoming liberal resistance The liberal mindset The conservative mindset Conclusion Appendix Index
Acknowledgements Introduction PART I. THE CYCLE Chapter 1: The world black children enter Black America Inner-city impoverished neighborhoods Parental dysfunction Community dysfunction Chapter 2: How we perpetuate the cycle Pre-natal harm The state's bad parentage decision-making Attachment failure Hostile residential environment Foster care decision-making Lack of preparation for school Bad schools Direct neighborhood effects PART II. BREAKING THE CYCLE Chapter 3: Conception and pre-natal life Prevent people unfit to parent from Conceiving Prevent pregnant women from harming the fetus Justifying pregnancy-related coercion Chapter 4: Sparing children from unfit parents Steps to appropriate state parentage decision-making for newborns Justifying better parentage decision-making Chapter 5: Separating children from bad neighborhoods Failure of the liberal approach Family law decisions that can relocate children No-child residential areas Justifying separation of children from blight PART III. LIBERAL SUPPORTS FOR THE CYCLE Chapter 6: Liberal's search for the Holy Grail The magic pill for reducing maltreatment rates Fighting back against the carceral state by imprisoning babies Chapter 7: Understanding and overcoming liberal resistance The liberal mindset The conservative mindset Conclusion Appendix Index
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