Shattered Bonds is a stirring account of a worsening American social crisis- the disproportionate representation of black children in the U.S. foster care system and its effects on black communities and the country as a whole. Tying the origins and impact of this disparity to racial injustice, Dorothy Roberts contends that child-welfare policy reflects a political choice to address startling rates of black child poverty by punishing parents instead of tackling poverty's societal roots. Using conversations with mothers battling the Chicago child-welfare system for custody of their children, along with national data, Roberts levels a powerful indictment of racial disparities in foster care and tells a moving story of the women and children who earn our respect in their fight to keep their families intact.
- ISBN10 0465070590
- ISBN13 9780465070596
- Publish Date 25 December 2002 (first published 28 January 2002)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 December 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Basic Books
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 352
- Language English