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21 Wash. & Lee J. Civ. Rts. & Soc. Just. 5 (2014-2015)
An Essay on Poverty and Child Neglect: New Interventions

handle is hein.journals/walee21 and id is 11 raw text is: An Essay on Poverty and Child Neglect: New Interventions Joan M Shaughnessy* Millions of America's children are suffering in extreme poverty and hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of those children are also the victims of child neglect. The intertwined problems of child poverty and child neglect have been a concern of policy makers and scholars since the advent of the modem child welfare system.2 Reliance on traditional child welfare services, particularly foster care, has proven to be an unsatisfactory solution to the problem of the neglect of poor children. Gradually, alternative approaches are being developed and tested, but it remains to be seen how successful those approaches will prove to be. Child poverty in the United States is widespread and growing. According to the census bureau, in 2012, almost 22% of children under the age 18, and 24% of children under 6, were living in poverty. Of those children, 40% were living in extreme poverty. 3 The Department of * Roger D. Groot Professor of Law. Special thanks to Dominik Taylor, Leigh Kirschner, Tammi Hellwig and Ann Massie for all of their work in organizing the Symposium on Emerging Issues in Child Welfare. 1. See generally, Bruce Boyer & Amy Halbrook, Advocating for Children in Care in a Climate of Economic Recession: The Relationship Between Poverty and Child Maltreatment, 6 Nw. J.L. & Soc. POL'Y 300 (2011). 2. For some of the extensive literature on poverty and child maltreatment, see DUNCAN LINDSEY, THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN (2d ed. 2004); see also MARGARET SMITH & ROWENA FONG, THE CHILDREN OF NEGLECT: WHEN No ONE CARES (2013); NEGLECTED CHILDREN: RESEARCH, PRACTICE, AND POLICY (Howard Dubowitz ed. 1999); LEROY PELTON, FOR REASONS OF POVERTY: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PUBLIC CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES (1989); Wendy Bach, The Hyperregulatory State: Women, Race, Poverty and Support, 25 Yale J.L. & Feminism (forthcoming 2014); see also Janet Wallace & Lisa Pruitt, Judging Parents, Judging Place: Poverty, Rurality, and Terminating Parental Rights, 77 Mo. L. REV. 95 (2012); Bruce Boyer & Amy Halbrook, Advocating for Children in Care in a Climate of Economic Recession: The Relationship Between Poverty and Child Maltreatment, 6 Nw. J.L. & SOC. POL'Y 300 (2011); Deborah Paruch, The Orphaning of Underpriviledged Children: America's Failed Child Welfare Law & Policy, 8 J. L. & FAM. STUD. 119 (2006); Sarah H. Ramsey, Children in Poverty: Reconciling Children's Interests with Child Protective and Welfare Policies: A Response to Ward, Doran and Roberts, 61 MD. L. REV. 437 (2002); Andrea Charlow, Race, Poverty, and Neglect, 28 WM. MITCHELL L. REV. 763 (2001); and Daan Braveman & Sarah Ramsey, When Welfare Ends: Removing Children From the Home for Poverty Alone, 70 TEMPLE L. REV. 447 (1997). 3. U.S. Census Bureau, Table 3. People in Poverty by Selected Characteristics: 2011

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