Wounded Innocents: The Real Victims of the War Against Child Abuse - Couverture rigide

Wexler, Richard

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ISBN 10 : 0879756020 ISBN 13 : 9780879756024

Editeur : Prometheus Books UK, 1990

Synopsis

Book by Wexler Richard

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The war against child abuse has become a war against children. Every year, hundreds of children die, thousands more are forced to live with strangers, and countless American families are torn apart. This is called a "child-protection system."

While the problem of child abuse is serious and real, journalist Richard Wexler charges that our solutions to the problem have actually made it worse - in fact, hurting the very children that they were intended to help.

Wexler reinforces his arguments with horrifying descriptions of children summarily removed from their homes, of families shattered because of false reports, and of children whose parents are guilty of nothing more than poverty being thrust into the maelstrom of the chaotic foster-care program. He writes of severly abused children - those needing the most help - whose cases are ignored because the system diverts scarce resources to trivial or unfounded cases, and who are reinjured, sometimes fatally after their plight has been called to the attention of authorities.

Wounded Innocents illustrates how well-meaning efforts to help children have gone terribly wrong and how the current child-protection system desperately needs to be replaced with one that offers real help and real hope to abused and neglected children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prometheus Books UK
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0879756020
• ISBN 13: 9780879756024
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 369
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible