System Kids: Adolescent Mothers and the Politics of Regulation
Lauren J. Silver
Abstract
This book considers the daily lives of adolescent mothers as they negotiate the child welfare system to meet the needs of their children and themselves. Often categorized as dependent and delinquent, these young women routinely become wards of the state as they move across the legal and social borders of a fragmented urban bureaucracy. Combining critical policy study and ethnography, and drawing on current scholarship as well as personal experience as a welfare program manager, the book demonstrates how social welfare “silos” construct the lives of youth as disconnected, reinforcing unforgivin ... More
Keywords: adolescent mothers, child welfare system, children, wards of the states, urban bureaucracy, social welfare, youth
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9781469622590 |
| Published to North Carolina Scholarship Online: January 2016 | DOI:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469622590.001.0001 |
