Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World Binding:Paperback making her mother overwhelmingly proud

making her mother overwhelmingly proud

WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION

she was left with just his violin and a note: Forgive me

A Goodreads Best Science Fiction Choice Award Nominee

author of The Love Songs of W

Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World Binding:Paperback making her mother overwhelmingly proudAn award winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and offers a a brilliant and impassioned call for abolition (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system