Price: $39.95
Page Count: 248
Publication Date: September 2022
ISBN: 978-1-77258-406-6
''Mothering is central to the child protection system in Canada and other 'western' countries. Decisions about risk to children are crucially based upon the assessment and management of mothering by child protections workers and the technologies they draw on to operate the system. While central this is often left implicit and 'taken for granted'. Therefore, this stimulating book, edited by Brooke Richardson , is important. It raises and discusses how this can be critically examined and reformed and, thereby, policy and practice'. practice improved so that the needs of mothers (and children) can be more readily addressed.
- Nigel Parton. Emeritus Professor, University of Huddersfield, England, and Editor in Chief of the open access journal Social Sciences''
Introduction
Brooke Richardson
Chapter 1
At the intersection of care and justice in child protection: A reflective account
Brooke Richardson
Chapter 2
Grounds for protection? Examining the intersection of HIV infection, “risk” and motherhood
Allyson Ion
Chapter 3
Helping or hurting? Exploring the “help/harm paradox” experienced by mothers at the intersection of the child protection and healthcare systems in Ontario
Meredith Berrouard, Brooke Richardson
Chapter 4
Is harm reduction safe? Exploring the tensions between shelter staff, mothers and children working or living in shelters
Angela Hovey, Susan Scott, and Lori Chambers
Chapter 5
When theoretical frameworks aren’t “good enough”: Deconstructing maternal discourses in child protection responses to mothers experiencing intimate partner violence
Angelique Jenney
Chapter 6
Challenging systemic bias towards Indigenous mothers arising from colonial and dominant society assessment methodology through a lens of humility
Peter Choate, Gabrielle Lindstrom
Chapter 7
A window on the system: A feminist analysis of the construction of teenage mothers in Serious Case Reviews in the UK
Sarah Bekaert, Brooke Richardson
Chapter 8
Mothering Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): Child protection and contested spaces
Dorothy Badry, Kelly Coons-Harding, Robyn Williams, Bernadette Iahtail, Peter Choate & Erin Leveque
Chapter 9
Systemic un-mothering: Mothers, their children, and families at the intersection of child welfare and the carceral system
Lauren Hawthorne, Brooke Richardson
Brooke Richardson, PhD
Brooke is an Instructor and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Sociology at Brock University in Ontario, Canada and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Early Childhood Studies, Education, Sociology and Child and Youth departments at several universities in southwestern Ontario. Her research and scholarly work focus on the privatization of childcare in Canada, political representations of the childcare policy “problem”, reconceptualizing and reasserting care in early childhood education, and re-imagining child protection systems through an ethics of care perspective.
