In 1980 the Congress overhauled this child protection regime with the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act (AACW). The compromise put into place from the RC vs. Alabama changed the (AACW) to better fit everyone. After the ruling of the RC vs. Alabama case, the need to make rules declined as the need to customize and adapt arose. “programs that once focused on financial redistribution increasingly link transfer payments to services, and the services are increasingly customized to the needs of individual recipients” (Noonan, K. G., Et Al.,
The book “for the Children? Protecting innocence in a Carceral State” written by Erica R. Meiners, is a book about how youths in the communities of color are deprived of protection, and how childhood was not being made available to all children of that community. According to the book, Meiners pointed out school-to-prison pipeline, incarceration willful defiance, racial profiling and policing has been a recurring and terrifying issue among the children of color, especially among the African American children. The ideology of policing and incarceration was to ensure that American citizens, both white and black are protected from harm and violence in schools and in their different neighborhoods.
It is clear that Massachusetts’s child protection laws, as written in Part 1 Title 17 chapter 119, have a primary aim of establishing rules, which best protect the children of the commonwealth against harm that they may encounter under the supervision of their parents or legal guardians. These laws influence the enforced policies in government organizations, such as the Department of Children and Families (DCF). These policies in turn have the potential to negatively affect respective children and families within a society. This potential harm calls for a change in policy and law. This paper will address and analyze key issues in DCF policy, as made apparent through the 2014 Justina Pelletier case, and how they stem from inconsistencies between
Issues of Social and Economic Justice Throughout my experience in the Panhandle Promise Project, I had the opportunity to closely examine the injustice many of the clients experience based on their race, economic status, or in the criminal justice system. Since the starting of America’s war on drugs longer sentencing for drug offences that in violent crimes, there has been an increase of the number of minorities who are currently in prison (Wormer, Kaplan, and Juby (2012). For the children having a parent incarcerated affects them in several different ways, such as having a higher risk of being place in foster care (Andersen and Wildeman, 2014) , poor school performance (Eddy et al., 2014), food insecurity (Turney, 2014c), antisocial behavioral problems (Jarjoura et al., 2011f). For women who have been release from prison new barriers limit the assistance they will received, the ineligibility for food stamps (Travis, 2002), and in some cases the loss of their children custody (Welsh, 2014b).
She argues that the widespread absenteeism of Black fathers is largely due to mass incarceration and that while Black leaders openly discuss the topic, none of them acknowledge the real reason: the criminal justice system. Alexander uses these truths to exemplify the fact that the prison system is segregation in disguise; it exiles Black men from society while they are behind bars and returns them to marginalized, segregated communities that have been ravaged by the War on
According to Tobis, these groups experienced both success and failures, but all contributed to the parent movement that improved the New York City child welfare system over time. In the final three chapters, Tobis examines the growing influence of parents in child welfare systems across the nation, the effect of child welfare reforms in New York City and the ongoing need for parents to advocate for the child welfare reform. In his concluding chapter, he looks back on the lessons learned, calls for an expansion of parent
Foster Care System Downfalls: The foster care system is setup to provide needs and protect children who have been neglected or abused. The main goal of the system is to take the children out of dangerous homes, and relocate them to a safe home, and to hopefully reunite the children with their biological families. While they are in foster care, their life should be greatly improved. Help should be given to those who are struggling with mental and emotional disabilities.
Imagine coming home from school on your 18th birthday and you’re told that you have to move out immediately with no warning. What would you do? Think about it. At 18 you would have to move out with no money, no car, and absolutely nowhere to go.
As our society has grown in a multitude of ways, it has remained the same concerning the systematic treatment of minority groups, especially African American people. Michelle Alexander, the author of The New Jim Crow, writes about how America has encouraged and allowed the rebirth of a new caste system through implementation of mass incarceration (2011). The creation of this new system, only backed the critical race theory that argues white racism is constructed socially and historically in America (Simba 2015). She outlines that slavery and Jim Crow laws have been redesigned into the war on drugs which has allowed the police to target communities of color and therefore keep blacks in a position of inferiority. Many factors come into play
“The prison population has increased from 300,000 people in the early 1970s to 2.3 million people today. There are nearly six million people on probation or on parole. One in every fifteen-people born in the United States in 2001 is expected to go to jail or prison; one in every three black male babies born in this century is expected to be incarcerated” (Stevenson 15). For our society to function, we need to fix areas that are broken. One is the perception and treatment of African Americans.
Several peculiar institutions have had the ability to effectively control, confine, and define blacks in America’s history. Systems included chattel slavery, which was the turning point of the plantation economy, the Jim Crow era legally upheld segregation and discrimination, and the mechanism of ghettos which are comprised of minorities, parallel to the collective proletarianization and urbanization of blacks. Lastly but not least, the carceral apparatus has helped to perpetuate a social and economic hierarchy, due to the subjugation of minorities, within the US directly affecting life outcomes of those who are directly and indirectly affected. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics, they are about 2.3 million people in jail, which
There are many open wounds in the African-American community that have not healed what so ever. Disintegration of family structures in the African-American community has been a persistent problem for far too long. High out of wedlock birth rates, absent fathers, and the lack of a family support network for many young African-Americans have led to serious problems in America's urban areas. The persistence of serious social problems in inner-city areas has led to a tragic perpetuation of racial prejudice as well. African Americans still face a litany of problems in the 21st century today.
The experience of many African American Transracial Adoptees with America’s racial complexities parallels the narrative above, an internal struggle to understand racial discrimination, solely due to the skin they inhabit. Transracial adoption, the placement of children in families of differing racial and cultural, began in the 1950s to provide shelter to Asian orphans displaced after World War II; it later expanded to include African Americans and Native Americans (Barn 1273). However, adoption of blacks into Caucasian families encountered sharp criticism in the black community. In 1970, The National Association of Black Social Workers argued that the adoption of African Americans by Caucasians promotes “cultural genocide”, seeking to protect black’s racial and cultural identity (Bradley and Hawkins-Leon 434). Despite thereof, Multiethnic
To be loved, to be praised, to be cherished; three things that every child in the world wishes for. It is a parent's job to grant their children with these needs. However, some children are not as lucky as others and are not blessed with the caring parents that they deserve. Luckily, the foster care system is there to help. The foster care system helps provide safety and care for children whose families are unable to do so.
It has deeply affected the problem of single parent household with the black community. When the black men are “locked up”, they typically leave behind a wife or girlfriend and children. Those children spend many years of their lives without a father figure and grow up with many difficulties. According to the NAACP; “2.3 million African American males are serving time in prison and African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites. Black males outnumber the population of Caucasians, Hispanics, Native Americans and other ethnic groups in the criminal justice system.
