| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 162 pages, 1 unnumbered page) : illustrations. |
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text file |
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Studies in social medicine
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Studies in social medicine.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
Parents anonymous and the whitewashing of child abuse -- 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. |
| Access |
Concurrent user level: 1 user |
| Subject |
Social work with African American children -- History -- 20th century.
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Social work with African American children. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Foster home care -- United States.
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Foster home care. |
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United States. |
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Child abuse -- Reporting -- United States.
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Child abuse -- Reporting. |
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Child abuse -- United States -- Prevention.
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Child abuse. |
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Child welfare -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Child welfare -- Government policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies. |
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Child abuse -- Prevention. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Raz, Mical. Abusive policies. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020] 9781469661209 (DLC) 2020018409 (OCoLC)1147880065 |
| ISBN |
9781469661230 (electronic book) |
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1469661233 (electronic book) |
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9781469661209 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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1469661209 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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9781469661216 paperback ; alkaline paper |
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1469661217 paperback ; alkaline paper |
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