Liberal Child Welfare Policy and its Destruction of Black Lives

<p>How can we end the inter-generational cycle of poverty and dysfunction in the US's urban ghettos? </p><p>This ground-breaking and controversial book is the first to provide a child-centered perspective on the subject by combining a wealth of social science information with sophisticated normative analysis to support novel reforms—to child protection law and practice family law and zoning— that would quickly end that cycle. </p><p>The rub is that the reforms needed would entail further suffering and loss of liberty for adults in these communities and liberal advocacy organizations and academics are so adult-centered in their sympathies and thinking that they reflexively oppose any such measures. Liberals have instead promoted one ineffectual parent-focused program after another in an ideologically-driven quest for the magic pill that can save both adults and children in these communities at the same time. </p><p>This `insider critique’ of liberal child welfare policy reveals a dilemma that liberals have yet to face squarely: there is an ineradicable conflict of interests between many young children and their parents especially in areas of concentrated poverty and one must choose sides.</p><p>It is a must read for legal academics political scientists urban policy experts as well as professionals working in social work law education urban planning legislative offices and administrative agencies.</p>