Fixing families : parents, power, and the child welfare system /
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2005.
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Series: | Perspectives on gender (New York, N.Y.)
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Online Access: | https://recursos.uloyola.es/login?url=https://accedys.uloyola.es:8443/accedix0/sitios/ebook.php?id=136567 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Child protection in a historical perspective
- The hated do-gooders : social work in context
- Expected parental behavior : theorizing subordination and deference in investigations
- Reforming parents, reunifying families
- Court-ordered empowerment and the reformation of mothers in CPS
- Biology and conformity : expectations of fathers
- Beyond reunification : when families cannot be fixed
- Conclusion.