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This book brings critical, scholarly attention to the systematic positioning and subjective experiences of mothers involved in child protection processes in ""risk""-based child protection. While mothers are typically the primary focus of child protection prevention and investigations, their gendered experiences, challenges, and triumphs are seldom given space in the academic literature, practice, and/or public spaces to be seen or heard. The volume illustrates the structural positioning and/or lived experiences of mothers who come into contact with child protection for a variety of reasons: substance (ab)use, positive HIV status, child injury, fetal alcohol syndrome, colonial assessment methodologies, young age, incarceration, childbirth, and intimate partner violence. Ultimately this anthology calls for a fundamental rethinking of how mothers involved in child protection proceedings are conceptualized in child protection research, policy, and practice. It is recommended that mothers voices must be central to humanely reforming child protection systems.

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'Mothering is central to the child protection system in Canada and other 'western' countries. Decisions about risk to children are crucially based upon the assessment and management of mothering by child protections workers and the technologies they draw on to operate the system. While central this is often left implicit and 'taken for granted'. Therefore, this stimulating book, edited by Brooke Richardson, is important. It raises and discusses how this can be critically examined and reformed and, thereby, policy and practice'. practice improved so that the needs of mothers (and children) can be more readily addressed. - Nigel Parton. Emeritus Professor, University of Huddersfield, England, and Editor in Chief of the open access journal Social Sciences''

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Brooke Richardson is an Instructor and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Sociology at Brock University in Ontario, Canada and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Early Childhood Studies, Education, Sociology and Child and Youth departments at several universities in southwestern Ontario. Her research and scholarly work focus on the privatization of childcare in Canada, political representations of the childcare policy ""problem,"" reconceptualizing and reasserting care in early childhood education, and re-imagining child protection systems through an ethics of care perspective.

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