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NYU Press They're All My Children: Foster Mothering in America

Name: They're All My Children: Foster Mothering in America
Brand: NYU Press
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Product Description The first book on foster care written from foster mothers' perspectives, They're All My Children 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 namely, how we think about kinship, identity, and work. Foster mothers construct enduring kinship relationships with children, and often with the children's biological families. These relationships enhance children's chances to growth and thrive and in turn extend women's kin relationships into often distant and disparate communities. Wozniak also highlights the economic side of fostering to show how foster mothers are both mothers and workers; foster children are both providers and provided for, adored sentimental children and economic figures. 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 They're All My Children takes forward. Review [A] thoughtful and well-researched book.-- "Reference and Research Book News, February 2002" A foster mother herself, Wozniak brings particular poignancy and insight to this fascinating look at motherhood and social policy. Her interviews with foster mothers are coupled with research on who foster mothers are and why they foster....Wozniak also looks at the larger issues of women's roles in society and how we handle the needs of displaced children. . . an important but little-researched topic.-- "Booklist" Wozniak presents a very readable analysis of the broad challenges facing foster families...This book is important for anyone in the social work or family services field.-- "Choice" About the Author A former foster mother, Danielle Wozniak is Assistant ResearchProfessor of at the University of Connecticut.

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Brand: NYU Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0814793460
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 December 2001
Listed Since: 16 December 2006

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