Child Neglect, Inequity, and Poverty: Contextual Issues and
Implications focuses on public child welfare, Indigenous child
welfare practices, federal- and state-level policy-making, child
welfare in low- and middle-income countries, and much more.
A valuable resource for those working with children and families experiencing neglect, this book helps broaden understanding of the underlying causes of child neglect and sets forth
innovative responses to it.
Table of Contents
Section I: General Multisystemic Policy Frames
Chapter 1: Economic and Concrete Supports: Core Strategies to Promote Family Well-being and Race Equity
Yasmin Grewal-Kök, Gretchen Cusick, Clare Anderson, Dana Weiner, Krista Thomas and Leanne Heaton
Chapter 2: Preventing Child Neglect with the U.S. Economic Safety Net
Kristen S. Slack, Claudette Grinnell-Davis, Daniel Sintim and Anna Ko
Chapter 3: Collective Neglect and Collective Responsibility: Re-theorizing Child Neglect
Anne Blumenthal
Chapter 4: Strengthening Families to Prevent Child Neglect through Programmatic and Systemic Approaches
Miriam J. Landsman
Chapter 5: The Multiethnic Placement Act: Promoting Colorblindness and Institutionalizing Relational and Cultural Neglect
Angelique Day, Sierra Wollen, John Fowler and Van Phan
Section II: Sovereign Nations and Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Chapter 6: Return to the Circle: Structural Poverty and Child Welfare Neglect in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
Priscilla Day and Virginia Whitekiller
Chapter 7: Indigenous Child Welfare within Settler Colonial Canada: Child Neglect and Poverty
Estelle Simard
Chapter 8: Child Neglect and Racial and Economic Justice in South Africa
Lenette Azzi-Lessing and Kim Schmidt
Section III: Neglect Rates, Dynamics, Typology, and Case Examples
Chapter 9: Assessing Child Neglect in the Context of Age, Race, and Household Financial Hardship
Cassandra Simmel, Darcey Merritt, Brenda Jones Harden and Brett Greenfield
Chapter 10: Policy Brief: A Typology of Child Neglect Statutes and Exploration of
Rate Variation among States
Kristcha DeGuerre and Katharine Briar-Lawson
Chapter 11: Case Study of Child Neglect Cases in Pennsylvania: A Positive Outlier?
Helen Cahalane, Kristcha DeGuerre, Marlo A. Perry and Katharine Briar-Lawson
Chapter 12: Hawai’i: Low Rates of Child Neglect, Indigenous Practices, and Rights of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPI)
Puafisi Tupola, Kristcha DeGuerre, Angelique Day, Halaevalu Vakalahi and Katharine Briar-Lawson
Section IV: Commentaries and Future Directions
Chapter 13: Poverty and Race as Proxies for Neglect: The Need for Justice in Child Welfare
David Kelly and Jerry Milner
Chapter 14: Selected Observations and Implications
Katharine Briar-Lawson, Priscilla Day and Lenette Azzi-Lessing
