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Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts is an acclaimed scholar of race, gender, and the law at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book is Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World.

Racism and DiscriminationApril 29, 2022

How Covid Revealed the Folly of Our Child Protection System

Despite predictions of an epidemic of child abuse, the temporary shutdown of the child welfare system showed us the promise of a radically different approach.

Dorothy Roberts