Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Child protection in a historical perspective
  • The hated do-gooders : social work in context
  • Expected parental behavior : theorizing subordination and deference in investigations
  • Reforming parents, reunifying families
  • Court-ordered empowerment and the reformation of mothers in CPS
  • Biology and conformity : expectations of fathers
  • Beyond reunification : when families cannot be fixed
  • Conclusion.