No Way to Treat a Child

How the Foster Care System, Family Courts, and Racial Activists Are Wrecking Young Lives

By: Naomi Schaefer Riley

Narrated by: Rosemary Benson

The American child welfare system is bent toward protecting adults, not children.

Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe - all with the inevitable result that their most precious developmental years are lost in bureaucratic and judicial red tape. It is time to stop letting efforts to fix the child welfare system get derailed by activists who are concerned with race-matching, blood ties, and the abstract demands of social justice, and start asking the most important question: Where are the emotionally and financially stable, loving, and permanent homes where these kids can thrive?

©2021 Naomi Schaefer Riley (P)2021 Tantor

Smart and informative book

smarty book about foster care. very informative with well researched topics. must read esp for foster parents!

Best Book Ever Written About Child Protective Services

As a foster parent having experience with the system and the children who are impacted by its shortcomings, I was blown away by the wide range of topics covered, and the attention grabbing true life stories combined with facts and statistics that supported the arguments made.
This is one of the best written books I have ever read, and it has a depth of research that lends credibility to the authors perspective.
An amazing, accurate, and important piece of work about a broken system and the harm it does to the children it is supposed to protect.

MUST READ

This is a must read for anyone involved in the foster care system. Foster parents, CPS workers, Lawyers, and Judges involved in the family court system would do themselves well by listening to
this book. It does a stellar job at shedding light on the many things that need to be addressed within this broken system.

Very Insightful

The only negative thing I have to say about the book is I would have appreciated a tangible action step I, as an every day person, can take to work towards effective change. The book was very insightful, though, and I really appreciate the work that went into this. The book seems very well researched, articulated, and reasoned in observations and claims.

Critical read

As a foster mother and adoptive mother of 6 precious children- I first hand have observed many of the state of Louisiana’s failures to protect children and their wellbeing. This book provided a critical, holistic perspective on the daily endeavors of a system tasked with protecting “our most vulnerable.” Specifically the child fatality rate. Since the emphasis on keeping children within abusive homes the Child fatality rate has increased. I love the specific calling out of these areas of growth.