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The child welfare system is overloaded with racial disparities that impact Black families, experts say.
"By blaming the parents you're diverting attention away from the structural reasons"
For example in Wisconsin this gap is six years, and in Washington, D.C., this gap is more than ten years. [38] [39] [40] African American women have the highest rate of obesity or being overweight in the US and non-Hispanic Blacks are 1.3 times more likely to be obese than non-Hispanic Whites. [41]
A history of government-sponsored experimentation, such as the notorious Tuskegee Syphilis Study, has left a legacy of African American distrust of the medical system. [60] Inequalities in health care may also reflect a systemic bias in the way in which medical procedures and treatments are prescribed to members of different ethnic groups.
One in 100 U.S. children — disproportionately Black and Native American — experience termination through the child welfare system before they turn 18, the study found.
African-American children are more likely than white children to be in persistent poverty due to multiple generations of discrimination. [1] When accounting for differences in family structure and income levels, black children still persist in higher poverty rates which is evidence that child poverty is driven by racism. [6]
As other recent lawsuits have proved, civil departments have held their heads responsible for cases of institutional racism, an example of which is the case in 2007 of the LAFD Chief, William Bamattre, [164] who was retired by the mayor of Los Angeles after being perceived of kowtowing to racial pandering in responding to lawsuits affecting his ...
This op-ed argues that the child welfare system traumatizes Black and brown kids. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...