Roberts - Shattered Bonds : The Color of Child Welfare

ABC bill. See Act for Better Child Care Services

ABC Evening News

Aber, J. Lawrence

Aborigines

Aborigines Act (Australia)

Abusive head trauma (AHT)

Accountability

Act for Better Child Care Services (ABC bill)

Adams, Jody

ADC. See Aid to Dependent Children

Administration for Children's Services (New York City)

Adolescent Pathways (Vera Institute)

Adolescents

aging out of foster care

chronic runaways

conditions in group homes

overlapping involvement in child welfare and juvenile justice systems

See also Black children; Children; Juvenile delinquency; Juvenile justice system

Adoption

alternatives to

by Black Americans

compared to family preservation services

concurrent permanency planning and

costs to children

current federal policies toward

decline in numbers of

defects in current federal policies

disparagement of biological parents and

fast-track policies

federal Indian policy and

impact on foster care population

increase in numbers of

increasing numbers of legal orphans and

international

notions of civil society revival and

popular support for federal policies

pre-adoptive placements

race-matching policies

racial disparity in

rates of disruption in

shortage of white babies and

supply and demand relationship with foster care

tax credit legislation

termination of parental rights and

web sites

welfare reform and

by white parents

See also Adoption and Safe Families Act; Foster care; Transracial adoption

Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA)

attacks on family preservation

Elizabeth Bartholet's criticism of reunification loopholes

concurrent permanency planning and

disparagement of biological parents

financial incentives to increase adoption

focus on acceleration of adoption process

funding of family preservation services and

goal of permanency

licensing of kinship caregivers and

limits on reasonable efforts to return children

passage of

termination of parental rights and

transracial adoption and

welfare reform and

Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act

Adoption Saturday

African American Child Welfare Act (Illinois)

AHT. See Abusive head trauma

AIDS

Aid to Dependent Children (ADC)

Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)

Alabama

Alcohol

Allen, Robert

Altstein, Howard

Alwysh, Sourette

Amar, Akhil

American Apartheid (Massey & Denton)

American Bar Association

American Indians

Andrea L. v. Superior Court

Angel Guardian Home

Antimiscegenation laws

Anything but race theories

Appell, Annette

Apprenticeship laws

Areen, Judith

Arizona

Arkansas

ASFA. See Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA)

Asian American children

Australia, Aboriginal policy

Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

Baby T case

Baltimore

Banks, Richard

Barth, Richard

Bartholet, Elizabeth

Battered women

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

Bennett, Homer

Bennett, William

Bernstein, Nina

Berrick, Jill Duerr

Berry, Halle

Berry, Marianne

Beyond the Best Interests of the Child (Goldstein, Freud, & Solnit)

Bilchik, Shay

Billingsley, Andrew

Bishop, Donna

Black Americans

adoption of Black children

American racial hierarchy and

apprenticeship laws and

family rights and

incarceration and

interrelationship of self- and groupi-dentity

negative stereotyping

racial disparity in incarceration

See also Black children; Black communities; Black families; Black men/fathers; Black parents; Black women/mothers; Group-based harm

Black Awakening in Capitalist America (Allen)

Black children

consequences of being imprisoned

disproportionate representation in child welfare system

group-based racial harm and

incarceration of parents and

inferior treatment in child welfare system

juvenile detention and

negative effects of adoption and foster care

overlapping involvement in child welfare and juvenile justice systems

poverty and

psychological evaluations of

transracial adoption

visibility hypothesis and

See also Adoption; Child abuse; Child maltreatment; Child neglect; Child removal; Child welfare system; Foster care; Juvenile delinquency; Juvenile justice system; Transracial adoption

Black communities

control of Black child services and

group-based racial harm of welfare system and

increasing accountability of child welfare agencies to

nonmandated reporting of child maltreatment

supervisory roles of child welfare and juvenile justice systems

See also Black families

Black families

apprenticeship laws and

Black civil society and

collateral damage from incarceration of parents

collateral damage from juvenile detention

cultural prejudice and

efforts to reunite during the Civil War

group-based harm of child welfare system

impediments to economic equality

kinship care and

kinship system and

myth of absent fathers

myth of the Black matriarch

parenting services and

political impact of disruption

portrayed as abandoning children in foster care

public's perceptions of

single motherhood and

slavery and

solidarity and

stereotyping by juvenile justice system

visibility hypothesis and

See also Black children; Black communities; Black men/fathers; Black parents; Black women/mothers; Parental rights, termination of

Black foster parents. See also Kinship care

Black men/fathers

disenfranchisement and

exclusion from kinship foster care

incarceration and

See also Black families; Black parents

Black parents

efforts to reform child welfare system

incarceration and

portrayed as abandoning children in foster care

See also Black families; Black men/fathers; Black women/mothers; Parental rights termination of

Black Power movement

Black women/mothers

adoption of Black foster children

Black family solidarity and

communal child-care

exclusion from Progressive Era welfare

image of pregnant crack addict

incarceration and

public devaluation of caregiving work

racial bias in drug testing and

rating of neglectful behaviors toward children

relationship with caseworkers

stereotypes of maternal unfitness

welfare reform and

See also Black families; Black parents; Parental rights, termination of; Single mothers; Teen mothers; Welfare mothers

Blakeslee, Sandra

Bonding evaluations

Book of David, The (Gelles)

Boston

Boston Globe (newspaper)

Bowling Alone (Putnam)

Boyer, Bruce

Boykin, A. Wade

Boyte, Harry C.

Brace, Charles Loring

Brawka, Judith

Breast feeding

Bridge over the Racial Divide (Wilson)

Brooks, Susan

Brown, Curley

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Bureau of Justice Statistics

Burke, Anne

Burke, Edward

Burton, Dan

Bush, George

Bush, George W.

Bush, Vernon

Byers, Joy

Califano, Joseph

California

biasing of psychological evaluators

child maltreatment and foster care placement