Torn Apart
Welcome to 'Torn Apart: Abolishing Family Policing and Reimagining Child Welfare' with Professor Dorothy Roberts. Journey with her as she brings listeners front and center with the broken child welfare system that destroys families and what we need to do to fix it. Hear from families at the center of this travesty as she welcomes guests and narrates this gripping series based on her award-winning book. In this podcast she and guests examine how abolishing the current child welfare system can build a safer world.
Episodes
5 episodes
Torn Apart: Abolition
In the final episode of the Torn Apart podcast, Dorothy Roberts makes the case for the abolition of the child welfare system and lays out a vision for the more just and equitable society that could replace it. Roberts discusses why abo...
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37:19
Torn Apart: The Carceral Web
In this episode, Torn Apart reveals the child welfare system’s deep entanglements with the criminal legal system. It exposes how state child protection caseworkers collaborate with police and use a carceral logic to surveil...
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Episode 3
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38:08
Torn Apart: Design
In this episode, Torn Apart shows that the child welfare system was designed from its beginning to oppress marginalized communities. The episode explores how the child welfare system's roots in slavery, settler colonialism, and white supr...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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44:11