A01=Diane L. Redleaf
Access to Counsel Child Abuse Hotlines
Author_Diane L. Redleaf
Category=LASD
Category=LNMK
Child Abuse Pediatrics
Child Abuse Registers
Child Abuse Reporting
Child Welfare Bureaucracy
Civil Rights Litigation
Constitutional Rights of Families
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Family Law
Juvenile Court/Dependency Court
Law Reform/System Reform Strategies
Product details
- ISBN 9781440866289
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 02 Nov 2018
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This account of six families whose children were wrongly seized by child protection services vividly illustrates the constitutional balancing act where medicine, family interests, and child safety can clash.
They Took the Kids Last Night shows a rarely exposed side of America's contemporary struggle to address child abuse, telling the stories of loving families who were almost destroyed by false allegations—readily accepted by caseworkers, doctors, the media, and, too often, the courts.
Each of the six wrongly accused families profiled in this book faced an epic and life-changing battle when child protection caseworkers came to their homes to take their kids. In each case, a child had an injury whose cause was unknown; it could have been due to an accident, a medical condition, or abuse. Each family ultimately exonerated itself and restored its family life, but still bears scars from the experience that will never disappear. The book tells why and how the child protection system failed these families. It also examines the larger flaws in our country's child protection safety net that is supposed to sort out the innocent from the guilty in order to protect children.
Diane L. Redleaf has been a leading family defense attorney and policy advocate for over three decades. Since she graduated from Stanford Law School in 1979, she has led dozens of successful class action suits, appeals and policy reform initiatives on behalf of families.
