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Behind Closed Doors: Why We Break Up Families - and How to Mend Them
Behind Closed Doors: Why We Break Up Families - and How to Mend Them
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The book "Children's Care" explores the scandal of children being removed from their parents in the UK, highlighting the complex factors that lead to this practice and the prejudices and biases that exist within the system. It sheds light on the experiences of foster carers, adoptive parents, and children in care, and emphasizes the importance of understanding family life and addressing the issues at hand.
Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 03 February 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
BRILLIANT . . . I LOVE THIS BOOK
Lemn Sissay
A MUST-READ BOOK
Jacqueline Wilson
EXTRAORDINARY
Oliver Bullough
EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS BOOK
Hilary Cottam
Meet the mother whose children were taken away, and the father who fought for his son. Listen to the radical social worker, the judge, the lawyer. See inside the homes of foster carers, adoptive parents, and children in care. Because behind closed doors, a scandal is ongoing.
We now remove more children from their parents than ever before, more than any other western country. Not because of a rise in physical or sexual abuse, but because of complex factors that are overlooked and misunderstood.
Children's Care is a system where fathers are ignored, and mothers are punished for experiencing abuse. Rife with prejudices about race, ableism, and class, determined by a postcode lottery. Blind to poverty and its effects on family life. And, at its very worst, an exercise in social engineering that can never replace parental love.
This is not a soft issue. Not a "women and children" problem. It is a prism through which we can understand the deepest issues at play in politics, economics, and society today, and it is happening behind closed doors.
Because of legal restrictions against reporting in family courts, the uneasy work of social care, and the shame poured on parents, these problems remain out of our sight. They are the subject of horror headlines or stale statistics. But family life is at the heart of who we are as people, and it is they who can help us understand.
From North to South, rich and poor, Black and white, these are the people who know, first-hand, what is going wrong - and how we can fix it.
These are their stories.
IMPORTANT
Ian Birrell
VITAL
Hannah Jane Parkinson
ONE OF B.
Weight: 452g
Dimension: 145 x 223 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780349014531
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