Word: neglectment
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...Capitalist, Global Capitalist, etc.) era. Namely--translate your strong cathartic appetite into a strong outreach-to-Black-poor ethos; into an activist healing-hand value orientation that focuses on the manifold crises of cultural life and societal life among our African-American poor (e.g., male violence against women, male neglect of family obligations, runaway teenage births, nihilistic violence by macho males, etc.). The simplistic catharsis of xenophobic, Afrocentrist discourse is just plain useless in the face of these manifold crises confronting perhaps 40 percent of Black households today...
...share the same concerns as Professor Kilson--concerns of male neglect, runaway teenage births and Black on Black violence. Certainly the right answers to these problems have not yet been found. But if even our "college-educated" brothers and sisters aren't instilled with the passion and drive to begin examination of these issues, these problems will continue to plague...
...share the same concerns as Professor Kilson," Clarke wrote in her letter of response. "Concerns of male neglect, runaway teenage births and Black-on-Black violence...
...into which they had been packed with adult paupers of all descriptions. But when researchers publicized the stunting effects of institutional life, group care gave way to welfare programs that allowed children who were simply poor to remain with their mothers. Children who were "parentless" owing to abuse or neglect or death were remanded into a new system, foster care. By 1980 the Federal Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act had codified the general expert consensus: families were almost always preferable to institutions. Any stay in an institution must be as brief as possible and aimed at reuniting the child...
...failures to remove children from dangerous homes but also about abuse in foster families and kids who bounced almost unnoticed from one inappropriate foster-care experience to the next. A report commissioned by the Reagan Administration in the late '80s concluded: "Foster care is intended to protect children from neglect and abuse at the hands of parents and other family members, yet all too often it becomes an equally cruel form of neglect and abuse by the state...