A complex and punitive child welfare system has emerged based on a view that the children of these mothers require legally sanctioned rescue by those better suited to care for them karen swift challenges both the accepted view of child neglect and the present official response to it beginning from a critical theoretical perspective she argues that our usual perceptions of neglect hide and distort important social realities. Manufacturing bad mothers a critical perspective on child neglect heritage series author karen swift edition illustrated reprint publisher university of toronto press 1995 isbn. Manufacturing bad mothers book description a complex and punitive child welfare system has emerged based on a view that the children of mothers providing deficient childcare require legally sanctioned rescue by those better suited to care for them. Manufacturing bad mothers a critical perspective on child neglect heritage kindle edition by karen swift download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading manufacturing bad mothers a critical perspective on child neglect heritage. Manufacturing bad mothers a critical perspective on child neglect heritage ebook swift karen amazonca kindle store