Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Polices Black Families

Dorothy Roberts

University of Pennsylvania

Acclaimed scholar Dorothy Roberts exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system. Roberts argues it is a “family policing system” designed to put Black families under intense state surveillance and regulation, driving many Black children into juvenile detention and imprisonment. She calls for both dismantling this system and reimagining how to support families and keep children safe. Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Africana Studies and Law and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the forthcoming Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Polices Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World.

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