Peer-reviewed article
Re-envisioning Child Well-being
Kele Stewart ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-sonnet-5-5This article looks at how the family regulation system (often called the child welfare system) affects Black families and communities. It argues that the harm spills over into the education and juvenile justice systems, which also show strong racial inequities. The author explores the structural ways these systems work together to compound disparity. The article presents this as further evidence that the family regulation system is failing.
Key points
- The family regulation system polices, disrupts and restructures Black families and communities.
- Its effects spill over into the education and juvenile justice systems, which also have stark racial inequities.
- This spillage magnifies the harm to Black children.
- The systems work together through structural mechanisms to compound disparity and perpetuate inequity.
Limitations
Only a short abstract is available, so the evidence, methods, data and specific country context are not described. The setting is not named, though the terms used suggest the United States, and this cannot be confirmed from the text.
Abstract
The family regulation system's policing, disruption, and restructuring of Black families and communities spills over into other systems also marked by stark racial inequities - the education and juvenile justice systems. This Article unpacks how that spillage magnifies the harm to Black children; by exploring the structural mechanisms through which these systems work together to compound disparity and perpetuate inequity, this Article provides further evidence of the family regulation system's failings.