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Wasted
Patrick Thomas Murphy
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Description for Wasted
Hardback. How a system designed to help children is instead helping to destroy them. Mr. Murphy charges that the child welfare bureaucracy is stuck in hundred-year-old realities and the politics of the 1960s and 1970s. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 376.
The public guardian of Cook County, Illinois, charges that the child welfare bureaucracy, designed to help children, is instead helping to destroy them. Murphy explains the facts and failures of the child welfare system—and offers solutions—better than any expert I've ever read on the subject....A first-rate read—poignant and instructive. —Edward I. Koch
The public guardian of Cook County, Illinois, charges that the child welfare bureaucracy, designed to help children, is instead helping to destroy them. Murphy explains the facts and failures of the child welfare system—and offers solutions—better than any expert I've ever read on the subject....A first-rate read—poignant and instructive. —Edward I. Koch
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566631631
SKU
V9781566631631
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Wasted
A splendid book.
Msgr. John Egan, DePaul University Honest and self-reflective...written with wit and great knowledge.
Boris M. Astrachan, M.D., Chairman Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago Wasted is a first-rate read—poignant and instructive.
Edward I. Koch, Former Mayor, New York City Insightful and passionate...a book about responsibility and of how shirking it leads to ... Read more
Msgr. John Egan, DePaul University Honest and self-reflective...written with wit and great knowledge.
Boris M. Astrachan, M.D., Chairman Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago Wasted is a first-rate read—poignant and instructive.
Edward I. Koch, Former Mayor, New York City Insightful and passionate...a book about responsibility and of how shirking it leads to ... Read more