Torn Apart Quotes

“To the contrary, abolition means imagining ways of meeting families’ needs and preventing family violence that do not inflict the damage caused by tearing families apart. Family policing is a barrier to galvanizing the radical change and revolutionary care required to keep children safe and thriving. Ending it is the best way—the only way—to ensure the well-being of children and their families.”
― Dorothy Roberts, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

“The system is set up to interfere with their emotional and physical health, their education, and their social relationships. It forces many of them into poverty, homelessness, and prisons. It drives many of them to suicide.”
― Dorothy Roberts, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

“The difference between parents who successfully avoid losing their children and keep their families intact and those who fail is rarely the type or severity of neglect or abuse involved, but is the degree to which the parent is willing to surrender their humanity, individuality and pride to the system and the court.”
― Dorothy Roberts, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World