The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
A Biography, Law, History book. This is not a case study, but rather a mishmash of...
IIn 1973, a young ACLU attorney filed a controversial class-action lawsuit that challenged New York City’s operation of its foster-care system. The plaintiff was an abused runaway named Shirley Wilder who had suffered from the system’s inequities. Wilder, as the case came to be known, was waged for two and a half decades, becoming a battleground for the conflicts of race, religion, and politics that shape America’s child-welfare system.The Lost Children of Wilder gives us the galvanizing history of this landmark case and the personal story at its...
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- Pages: 496 pages
- ISBN: 9780679758341 / 679758348
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This is not a case study, but rather a mishmash of biography and scathing indictment of a broken child welfare system. It follows the lives of Shirley Wilder, her son, Lamont, and Marcia Lowry, the dogged attorney who spent twenty-six years trying to reform the system through a grinding series of class-action lawsuits, and unflinchingly... This book was very disturbing to read at times. I had a hard time wrapping my head around some of the things that happen in this world, especially to kids. I thought the book was well written but all of the stuff about the legal Wilder case was very dry and there was almost too much legalese to be able to understand it all. I skipped... There are a dozen books I have been meaning to read for decades, and this is one of them. I recently sold my house where I've been living since 1990and in the adrenaline surge that followed the sale I decided it was time to read some of those books that never made it to the top of the pile but also never made it into the trash (not...
