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- Title: They're All My Children
- Author : Danielle Wozniak
- Release Date : January 01, 2001
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 6794 KB
Description
The first book on foster care written from foster mothers' perspectives, voices the often painful experiences of contemporary U.S. foster mothers as they struggle to mother and care-work in the face of exploitative social relations with the state. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Wozniak, herself a former foster mother and an anthropologist, presents and analyzes women's personal stories about fostering to reflect on the larger socio-cultural context of American family life
Through in-depth interviews and participant observation, Wozniak argues that we have not gone far enough in understanding the experiences of these women whose life work lies outside the usual boundaries. Nor have child welfare gone far enough in revising the theories upon which child welfare policies are based. Foster mothers and their experiences challenge the patriarchal, nuclear family ideals upon which foster care programs are based, a challenge that takes forward.