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008			160525s1995 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a0-8020-7435-9
040			_aAFVC
082			_a362.76 SWI
100			_aSwift, Karen J. _95899
245			_aManufacturing 'bad mothers' : _ba critical perspective on child neglect _cKaren J. Swift
260			_aToronto, Ont. : _bUniversity of Toronto Press, _c1995
300			_ax, 218 pages ; 23 cm.
520			_a"Child neglect has been characterized over the past century as a problem of deficient care of children by mothers. A complex and punitive child welfare system has emerged, based on a view that the children of these mothers require legally sanctioned rescue by those better suited to care for them. Karen Swift challenges both the accepted view of child neglect and the present official response to it. Beginning from a critical theoretical perspective, she argues that our usual perceptions of neglect hide and distort important social realities. This distorted perception only serves to reproduce the conditions of poverty, marginalization, and violence in which these families live. The current child welfare system, far from rescuing neglected children, helps instead to ensure the continuation of their problems, and the outcome is especially dramatic and damaging in Aboriginal communities. Swift explores the historical, organizational, and professional dimensions within which child neglect becomes a visible social reality. Also examined are relations of class, race, and gender embedded in our usual understanding of child neglect. " (From the blurb). Record 5048
650			_aCHILD NEGLECT _9114
650			_aCHILD PROTECTION _9118
650			_aMOTHERS _9392
650			_aPOVERTY _9453
650			_aSOCIAL WORK PRACTICE _9562
651		4	_aCANADA _92602
650			_9307 _aINDIGENOUS PEOPLES
650			_9252 _aFAMILY VIOLENCE
650			_9103 _aCHILD ABUSE
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
999			_c5048 _d5048