TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roberts, Dorothy 
TI  - Torn apart: How the child welfare system destroys black families-and how abolition can build a safer world 
SN  - 9781541675445
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic books 
N2  - Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system is better understood as a “family policing system” that collaborates with law enforcement and prisons to oppress Black communities.
ER  -