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Parenting for the State

An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care

By Teresa Toguchi Swartz

Published June 24th 2005 by Routledge – 168 pages

Series: New Approaches in Sociology

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Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster family agency, this book takes a look behind the scenes of our troubled foster care system.

Author Bio

Teresa Toguchi Swartz is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on families; race, class, and gender; and social policy.

Name: Parenting for the State: An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care (Hardback)Routledge 
Description: By Teresa Toguchi Swartz. Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster family agency, this book takes a look behind the scenes of our troubled foster care...
Categories: Sociology & Social Policy