Investigating Families, with Kelly Fong

Kelley Fong, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, joins to discuss her work studying the impact of state child welfare systems and their policies on families. Fong, who has written several op-eds for The Imprint, is the author of Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Service, an examination of the front end of child welfare focused on Fong’s deep research in several New England States.

Reading Room

Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Service
https://shorturl.at/dsb52

We Shouldn’t Rely on Child Protective Services To Address Family Adversity:
https://imprintnews.org/opinion/we-shouldnt-rely-on-child-protective-services-to-address-family-adversity/47496

ASFA Is A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System
https://imprintnews.org/opinion/asfa-is-a-dangerous-tool-in-an-arbitrary-system/237576

Reports Without Surveillance: Connecticut’s New Child Welfare Experiment
https://imprintnews.org/youth-services-insider/reports-without-surveillance-connecticuts-new-child-welfare-experiment/64329