
Wasted
The Plight of America's Unwanted Children
Patrick T. Murphy(Author)
Ivan R Dee, Inc (Publisher)
Published on 1. July 1997
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-56663-163-1 (ISBN)
Description
The public guardian of Cook County, Illinois, charges that the child welfare bureaucracy, designed to help children, is instead helping to destroy them. Murphy explains the facts and failures of the child welfare system-and offers solutions-better than any expert I've ever read on the subject....A first-rate read-poignant and instructive. -Edward I. Koch
Reviews / Votes
A splendid book. -- Msgr. John Egan, DePaul University Honest and self-reflective...written with wit and great knowledge. -- Boris M. Astrachan, M.D., Chairman Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago Wasted is a first-rate read-poignant and instructive. -- Edward I. Koch, Former Mayor, New York City Insightful and passionate...a book about responsibility and of how shirking it leads to social catastrophe. -- Ellis Cose, Author of Color-Blind and The Rage of a Privileged Class A powerful indictment of the child welfare system...its message deserves a broad hearing among those who care about our society's children. -- Elizabeth BartholetMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
395 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56663-163-1 (9781566631631)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Patrick T. Murphy
Content
Part 1 Acknowledgements 7
Part 2 Foreword 13
Part 3 A Third World Initiation 27
Part 4 Learning the System 37
Part 5 Preserving Families, Killing Children 58
Part 6 The Underclass 85
Part 7 The Confidentiality Game 113
Part 8 New Realities 129
Part 9 Wrong Race, Wrong Place 147
Part 10 Orphans in a Strom 162
Part 11 Ideology and Reality 174
Part 12 Index 185
Part 2 Foreword 13
Part 3 A Third World Initiation 27
Part 4 Learning the System 37
Part 5 Preserving Families, Killing Children 58
Part 6 The Underclass 85
Part 7 The Confidentiality Game 113
Part 8 New Realities 129
Part 9 Wrong Race, Wrong Place 147
Part 10 Orphans in a Strom 162
Part 11 Ideology and Reality 174
Part 12 Index 185