Politics of Justice #5: Impossible Case Plans and the Myth of Reunification: When “Services” Become Surveillance | Ch. 25–29

In chapters 25–29 of Judged, the child welfare system reveals its true mechanics. Foster children are subjected to relentless testing and layered diagnoses, while parents are handed case plans that require full compliance—and full-time availability. The result is a system that demands parents give up their jobs to prove fitness, quietly transforming “reunification” into an unattainable ideal rather than a genuine goal.

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