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What's Mother Got to do with it? - Protecting Children from Sexual Abuse (Hardcover, New)
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What's Mother Got to do with it? - Protecting Children from Sexual Abuse (Hardcover, New)
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A child's disclosure of sexual abuse can wreak havoc in many lives,
especially that of the child's mother. Julia Krane offers a
first-hand look into everyday protection practices of child welfare
from the perspective of mothers of sexually abused children and
their female social workers, charting women's complex,
contradictory, and often costly relations with the child welfare
arm of the Canadian state. Drawing on interviews with social
workers and mothers of sexually abused children, examinations of
client files and court documents, and reviews of training and
procedural manuals, Krane argues that child welfare procedures
designed to protect children and help parents instead end up
scrutinizing mothers for their inadequacies, transforming them into
a protective labour force expected to safeguard their children.
Protection practices, she contends, essentially reproduce legacies
of mother blame and responsibility for the child's sexual abuse,
relieving the abuser and the state of all liability. In conclusion,
Krane uses her analysis to identify areas with potential for
change, such as creating practice environments that render explicit
the gendered nature of protection, offering support to women in
their protective efforts, and allowing opportunities for women to
explore and reflect on the context of maternal care and protection.
This study lays bare another layer of gender in relation to child
sexual abuse, and locates child welfare practice in feminist
scholarly debates about women and the welfare state.
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