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06-10-2017 | Book Review

Sylvia Mignon: Child Welfare in the United States: Challenges, Policy, and Practice

New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company, 2017, 233 pp, ISBN: 9780826126429

Auteur: Julie Ardelean

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 11/2017

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In Child Welfare in the United States, Sylvia Mignon attempts to present the child welfare system as it was in the past, as it is currently, and as it might be with future innovations. The result of such broad ambition, as one might expect, is that Mignon is forced to rely on statistics and numbers to paint the picture of a system made up of children and their families. She combats what could read as a dry recitation of dismal numbers, however, with various text-boxes of personalized anecdotes and narrative detours on almost every other page. These opportunities to take a break from the research and engage with the specifics of a certain case, a personal experience, or a single program allow the reader the mental space to humanize the statistics. …
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Titel
Sylvia Mignon: Child Welfare in the United States: Challenges, Policy, and Practice
New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company, 2017, 233 pp, ISBN: 9780826126429
Auteur
Julie Ardelean
Publicatiedatum
06-10-2017
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 11/2017
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-017-0764-7