We Were Once a Family A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Name: We Were Once a Family
Author: Roxanna Asgarian

Auteur: Roxanna Asgarian

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Roxanna Asgarian

Engels
Paperback
9781250321923
12 maart 2024
320 pagina's

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A riveting indictment of the child welfare system . . . [A] bracing gut punch of a book. Robert Kolker, The Washington Post

[A] moving and superbly reported book. Jessica Winter, The New Yorker

A harrowing account . . . [and] a powerful critique of [the] foster care system . . . We Were Once a Family is a wrenching book. Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times

A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six childrenand a searing indictment of the American foster care system.

On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and multiple children at the bottom of a cliff along the Pacific Coast Highway. Investigators soon concluded that the crash was a murder-suicide, but there was more to the story: Jennifer and Sarah Hart, it turned out, were a white married couple who had adopted six Black children from two different Texas families in 2006 and 2008. Behind the familys loving facade was an alleged pattern of abuse and neglect that had been ignored as the couple withdrew the children from school and moved west. It soon became apparent that the State of Texas knew all too little about the two individuals to whom it had given custody of six children.

Immersive journalism of the highest order, Roxanna Asgarians We Were Once a Family is a revelation of precarious lives; it is also a shattering exposé of the foster care and adoption systems that produced this tragedy. As a journalist in Houston, Asgarian sought out the childrens birth families and put them at the center of the story. We follow the lives of the Harts adopted children and their birth parents, and the machinations of the state agency that sent the children far away. Asgarians reporting uncovers persistent racial biases and corruption as young people of color are separated from birth parents without proper cause. The result is a riveting narrative and a deeply reported indictment of a system that continues to fail Americas most vulnerable children while upending the lives of their families.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 12 maart 2024
Aantal pagina's: 320

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Hoofdauteur: Roxanna Asgarian
Hoofduitgeverij: St Martin's Press

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Product breedte: 134 mm
Product hoogte: 24 mm
Product lengte: 208 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 134 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 24 mm
Verpakking lengte: 208 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 259 g

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Rechten

Biografieën & Waargebeurd

Psychologie

True crime

Sociale & Ethische kwesties

Privaatrecht

Misbruik

Kindermishandeling

Familierecht

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Taal: Engels
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
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