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Somebody Else's Children
John Hubner
Jill Wolfson
其他書名
The Courts, the Kids, and the Struggle to Save America's Troubled Families
出版
Three Rivers Press
, 1998
主題
Law / Courts
Law / Family Law / General
Law / Family Law / Children
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family
Social Science / Children's Studies
ISBN
0609801708
9780609801703
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vtYPAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
With the narrative force of an epic novel, this groundbreaking investigative book delves into the day-to-day workings and life-and-death decisions in one typical American family court system, providing an intimate look at the lives of the children whose fate it decides. Santa Clara County, California, is part Silicon Valley, part suburban sunbelt boomtown, part urban slum, and part rural paradise; its problems mirror those of most cities in the United States. Granted an unprecedented court order giving them access to the families, social workers, and legal professionals of Santa Clara County's system, John Hubner and Jill Wolfson weave together stories that are sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes uplifting, but always deeply human and profound: the battle between biological parents and adoptive parents for the right to raise a baby born drug-addicted; the family torn apart by what they claim is a false charge of sexual abuse; the gallant struggle of therapists trying to untangle an eight-year-old caught in the web of his parents' bitter divorce; the resilience of a preteen cast aside by his family and left to fend for himself on the streets; the nobility of a teenage mother raising her daughters in a neighborhood ruled by gangs. At the heart of these stories stands Judge Leonard Edwards, the 1996 recipient of the American Bar Association's award for the country's best judge in a court of special jurisdiction. In an era when the public is questioning the very value of its social service institutions, Judge Edwards and thousands of others in the trenches are spending every working day trying to make the system work, trying to protect and rehabilitate children who are too often forgotten bysociety, too often written off as somebody else's children.
