Investigating Families av Kelley Fong

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<p><b>How our reliance on Child Protective Services makes motherhood precarious for those already marginalized</b><br><br>It¿s the knock on the door that many mothers fear: a visit from Child Protective Services (CPS), the state agency with the power to take their children away. Over the last half-century, these encounters have become an all-too-common way of trying to address family poverty and adversity. One in three children nationwide¿and half of Black children¿now encounter CPS during childhood.<br><br>In <i>Investigating Families</i>, Kelley Fong provides an unprecedented look at the inner workings of CPS and the experiences of families pulled into its orbit. Drawing on firsthand observations of CPS investigations and hundreds of interviews with those involved, Fong traces the implications of invoking CPS as a ¿first responder¿ to family misfortune and hardship. She shows how relying on CPS¿an entity fundamentally oriented around parental wrongdoing and empowered to separate fami