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

Informationen zum Autor By Richard Wexler Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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 book presents descriptions of children summarily removed from their homes and of families shattered because of false reports.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Wexler, Wexler Richard
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1995
• EAN: 9780879759360
• ISBN: 978-0-87975-936-0
• No. of pages: 429
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Child welfare, Child welfare and youth services, Child abuse