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Wasted - The Plight of America's Unwanted Children (Hardcover, New)
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Wasted - The Plight of America's Unwanted Children (Hardcover, New)
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Blunt and authoritative, another indictment of a child welfare
system that jumps abused children from home to foster care to
mental institution to jail like pieces in a manic game of checkers.
Murphy (Our Kindly Parent, the State, 1974) is the public guardian
of Cook County, Ill., a unique office from which he represents both
troubled children and the elderly. He has seen generations of
children move through the child welfare system, bouncing from
foster parents to birth parents until the children too are old
enough to have children and mistreat them. Murphy very carefully
differentiates between families who are merely poor, struggling but
with a future, and the families of the "underclass . . . a
dysfunctional fourth world culture that strangles its young." Using
the first several chapters of the book to outline his own
experience as prosecutor, Peace Corps volunteer, and Legal Aid
lawyer - years of confrontation with the many aspects of poverty -
Murphy goes on to disdain both the traditional liberal view of the
poor as victims and the conservative message to let the poor "rot
at home." He has some serious questions about the family
preservation policies that still drive most social service
agencies. Some parents are irredeemably irresponsible, and children
should never be returned to their care, says the author. Some
modest proposals are offered that would in essence reduce the power
of the courts in determining the fate of abused and neglected
children and return those decisions to a reorganized child welfare
system, modify confidentiality laws so that they no longer protect
an incompetent welfare bureaucracy, and expand and bolster
"residential care" facilities (orphanages, if you will). Short and
pungent, designed to be controversial, here's a blow at the child
protection system from a knight who's been in the fray a long time
and knows the enemy. (Kirkus Reviews)
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
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