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System Kids considers the daily lives of adolescent mothers as they
negotiate the child welfare system to meet the needs of their
children and themselves. Often categorized as dependent and
delinquent, these young women routinely become wards of the state
as they move across the legal and social borders of a fragmented
urban bureaucracy. Combining critical policy study and ethnography,
and drawing on current scholarship as well as her own experience as
a welfare program manager, Lauren Silver demonstrates how social
welfare ""silos"" construct the lives of youth as disconnected,
reinforcing unforgiving policies and imposing demands on women the
system was intended to help. As clients of a supervised independent
living program, they are expected to make the transition into
independent adulthood, but Silver finds a vast divide between these
expectations and the young women's lived reality. Digging beneath
the bureaucratic layers of urban America and bringing to light the
daily experiences of young mothers and the caseworkers who assist
them, System Kids illuminates the ignored work and personal
ingenuity of clients and caseworkers alike. Ultimately reflecting
on how her own understanding of the young women has changed in the
years since she worked in the same social welfare program that is
the focus of the book, Silver emphasizes the importance of empathy
in research and in the formation of welfare policies.
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