Behind Closed Doors: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING: Why We Break Up Families – and How to Mend Them - Couverture rigide

Curtis, Polly

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0349014531 ISBN 13 : 9780349014531

Editeur : Virago, 2022

Synopsis

A searing portrait of English society seen through the lives of families and workers in the care system.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Polly Curtis is an author and journalist dedicated to reporting on social justice. Having worked at Tortoise, HuffPost, the British Red Cross and for sixteen years as Education Editor, Whitehall Correspondent, News Editor and Digital Editor at the Guardian, she was a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford's Reuters Institute and was most recently Managing Director of PA Media. Born in Camden, she still lives there, with her husband and two children.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

We now remove more children from their parents since records began,
more than other western countries.
Mothers are punished
Fathers are ignored
Social workers are burning out
Poverty is invisible
Children are failed
By going behind closed doors,
by listening to families and workers,
we can understand what is going wrong.
And we can fix it.

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

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 since records began, more than other western countries. 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Virago
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0349014531
• ISBN 13: 9780349014531
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Hachette Ireland; info@hbgi.ie; ; 8 Castlecourt Centre, Castleknock; Dublin 15; D15 XTP3; Irlande