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| Introduction | |
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| Intervening in Failing Families | |
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| Intersections of the State and Family | |
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| The Therapeutic State | |
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| Overview of the System | |
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| "We work for the government. We're here to help." | |
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| "Juvenile Justice" | |
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| The County | |
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| Representing "Bad" Parents | |
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| Overview of the Book | |
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| Child Protection In A Historical Perspective | |
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| The Progressive Era: New Responses to New Social Problems | |
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| Professionalization of Childsaving | |
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| Creating Public Welfare | |
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| 1920's-1960's: "Battered Child Syndrome" and the First Federal Response to Child Abuse | |
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| 1970's: Rising Caseloads and Calls for Reform | |
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| Constructing the "Best Interests" | |
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| Opposition to Transracial Adoption | |
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| 1980's: Refocusing on Reunification in the Face of New Challenges | |
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| The Crack Crisis in Child Welfare | |
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| 1990's: Attempts to Address System Failures | |
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| Color-Blind Child Welfare Policy | |
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| Rising Attention to System Failures | |
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| Adoption Reform | |
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| Understanding the Child Welfare Pendulum | |
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| The Hated Do-Gooders: Social Work In Context | |
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| Prelude | |
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| Social Work as Thankless | |
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| Social Work as Dangerous | |
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| Social Work as Stressful | |
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| Expected Parental Behavior: Theorizing Subordination And Deference In Investigations | |
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| Prelude | |
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| Reporters of Suspected Abuse of Neglect | |
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| Talking (with) Children | |
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| Assessing Risk Through Zero-Tolerance for Drugs | |
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| Evaluating the Home | |
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| Expectations of Deference | |
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| Dana Brooks | |
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| Jamila Washington | |
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| Similar Circumstances, Different Outcomes | |
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| Candace Williams-Taylor | |
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| Moving Through the System | |
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| Reforming Parents, Reunifying Families | |
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| Prelude | |
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| The Context and Content of Services | |
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| The Relative Right to Services | |
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| The Controversial System | |
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| The Experience of Reunification Services | |
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| "Time Is Moving": Deference to the Process As Soon As Possible | |
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| Material Obstacles to Reunification | |
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| The Time Bind of Services | |
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| Housing and Public Assistance | |
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| Childcare | |
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| Services and Surveillance | |
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| Managing State Power: Parental Strategies | |
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| Parents' Strategies: Resistance and Accommodation | |
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| Robert Davis | |
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| Richie Lyons | |
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| Linda Durrant | |
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| Activist Parenting and Counter-Productivity | |
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| Conclusion: Realizing System Goals: Means and Ends | |
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| Court-Ordered Empowerment And The Reformation Of Mothers In Cps | |
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| Prelude | |
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| The Bad Mother in Public Imagination and Institutions | |
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| Resocializing Bad Mothers | |
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| Contexualizing Maternal Salvation | |
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| Performing Empowerment | |
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| Court-Ordered Empowerment: Success Stories | |
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| Sexual Mothers: Reunification Failures | |
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| Making Sense of the Empowerment Performance | |
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| Biology And Conformity: Expectations Of Fathers | |
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| Prelude | |
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| Becoming a CPS Father | |
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| Men's Relative Right to Services | |
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| Legal Constructions of Fatherhood | |
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| Encouraging Absentee Fatherhood | |
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| Working to Reunify | |
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| Employment versus Compliance | |
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| Proving the Capacity to Parent | |
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| Bad Men as Good Fathers? | |
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| Resocializing Bad Men | |
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| Beyond Reunification: When Families Cannot Be Fixed | |
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| Prelude | |
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| Beyond Reunification | |
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| Time Runs Out | |
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| Demonstrable Rehabilitation | |
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| Compliance | |
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| Meaningful Change | |
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| Accepting Responsibility | |
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| Developing a "Permanent Plan" | |
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| When Adoption is Inappropriate | |
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| Identifying Unbreakable Bonds | |
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| Defining Adoptability | |
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| After the Case Ends | |
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| Court Orders Beyond the Courthouse | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Good Intentions, Poor Outcomes | |
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| CPS and the Anti-Parent Culture | |
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| Addressing System Failures | |
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| Social Work Workload | |
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| Giving Voice to Parental Anger | |
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| Access to Advocacy | |
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| Relevant Servi | |