"A foster mother herself, Wozniak brings particular poignancy and
insight to this fascinating look at motherhood and social policy.
Her interviews with foster mothers are coupled with research on who
foster mothers are and why they fostera].Wozniak also looks at the
larger issues of women's roles in society and how we handle the
needs of displaced children. . . an important but little-researched
topic."
--"Booklist"
"[A] thoughtful and well-researched book."
--"Reference and Research Book News," February 2002
"Wozniak presents a very readable analysis of the broad
challenges facing foster families...This book is important for
anyone in the social work or family services field."
--"Choice"
The first book on foster care written from foster mothers'
perspectives, They're All My Children voices the often painful
experiences of contemporary U.S. foster mothers as they struggle to
mother and care-work in the face of exploitative social relations
with the state. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research,
Wozniak, herself a former foster mother and an anthropologist,
presents and analyzes women's personal stories about fostering to
reflect on the larger socio-cultural context of American family
lifenamely, how we think about kinship, identity, and work. Foster
mothers construct enduring kinship relationships with children, and
often with the children's biological families. These relationships
enhance children's chances to growth and thrive and in turn extend
women's kin relationships into often distant and disparate
communities. Wozniak also highlights the economic side of fostering
to show how foster mothers are both mothers and workers; foster
children are both providersand provided for, adored sentimental
children and economic figures.
Through in-depth interviews and participant observation, Wozniak
argues that we have not gone far enough in understanding the
experiences of these women whose life work lies outside the usual
boundaries. Nor have child welfare gone far enough in revising the
theories upon which child welfare policies are based. Foster
mothers and their experiences challenge the patriarchal, nuclear
family ideals upon which foster care programs are based, a
challenge that They're All My Children takes forward.
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