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The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives
The Book of David How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives Author:Richard J. Gelles Gelles was once one of the most widely published and vocal defenders of family preservation keeping troubled families together as a primary goal of social policy. However, everything changed when he ran into the tragic case of David Edwards, an infant who was murdered by his mother after falling through the chasms in the child welf... more »are system. The result is that Gelles concludes that our child welfare system is fundamentally flawed and must be changed. He offers several solutions to changing the child welfare system.« less