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Mical Raz - Breaking Families, Making Families, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Breaking Families, Making Families

Adoption and Child Welfare in the 1990s

Av Mical Raz

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Families in the United States experience child abuse investigations, the removal of children from their homes, and the termination of parental rights at higher rates than peer countries. Yet this does not make them safer and comes at a cost. As a historian and practicing doctor, Mical Raz asks how American society came to accept punitive interventionist policies that prioritize termination of parental rights. These practices “free” children for adoption, which leads to the devastation of families and communities and the creation of “legal orphans”—children who have no legal ties to their families of origin. Drawing on original archival sources, legislative documents, and oral histories, Raz argues that adoption is not the inevitable solution to a child welfare system in crisis, maps the political history of this shift in child welfare policymaking—exemplified in the passage of the 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act—and proposes future reforms.
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Mical Raz is professor of history and health policy at the University of Rochester and works as a hospitalist at Strong Memorial Hospital.

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“Breaking Families, Making Families is a valuable contribution to scholarship on the US child protection system, welfare, foster care, adoption, and the political history of the 1990s. Mical Raz sheds light on how a problematic bill became law and illuminates the paths not taken in order to create a better policy future.”—Molly Ladd-Taylor, York University“Breaking Families, Making Families offers a fascinating history of the child welfare system that helps us understand how the liberal consensus on 'child abuse' shifted from an emphasis on transformation within families (and keeping them together) to a punitive family regulation system that made new families by removing children from their parents and adopting them out.” — Laura Briggs, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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