Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

An award-winning scholar and author of Killing the Black Body exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system

“A brilliant and impassioned call for abolition.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow

Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system is better un...