Torn Apart is the inaugural podcast in our Ms. Book Club Series. Hosted and co-produced by Professor Dorothy Roberts, this limited series podcast in four parts is based on her award-winning book, Torn Apart. In the podcast, she examines the child welfare system and advocates for abolishing family policing and reimagining child welfare. Tune in to hear the voices of impacted families, family defenders, activists, and scholars. In the final episode of the Torn Apart podcast, Dorothy...
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Torn Apart is the inaugural podcast in our Ms. Book Club Series. Hosted and co-produced by Professor Dorothy Roberts, this limited series podcast in four parts is based on her award-winning book, Torn Apart. In the podcast, she examines the child welfare system and advocates for abolishing family policing and reimagining child welfare. Tune in to hear the voices of impacted families, family defenders, activists, and scholars. In the final episode of the Torn Apart podcast, Dorothy...
In this episode, Torn Apart reveals the child welfare system’s deep entanglements with the criminal legal system. It exposes how state child protection caseworkers collaborate with police and use a carceral logic to surveil families. It investigates how the system treats Black children like criminals, resulting in Black children being more vulnerable to arrest, incarceration, and early death. Foster care is traumatic for both children and parents, and often leaves lasting damage o...
Ms. Book Club
Torn Apart is the inaugural podcast in our Ms. Book Club Series. Hosted and co-produced by Professor Dorothy Roberts, this limited series podcast in four parts is based on her award-winning book, Torn Apart. In the podcast, she examines the child welfare system and advocates for abolishing family policing and reimagining child welfare. Tune in to hear the voices of impacted families, family defenders, activists, and scholars. In the final episode of the Torn Apart podcast, Dorothy...
