The parent trap
The parent trap
- February 15, 2024
- Kelley Fong, sociology, The New York Review, Feb. 15, 2024 (March 7, 2024 issue)
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Kelley Fong’s new book, Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services, crucially illuminates the perspectives of women tangled in the system’s web. Fong is a sociologist, and Investigating Families is based on rare firsthand access to CPS investigations and in-depth interviews with dozens of impacted mothers—the kind of mothers upper-middle-class readers don’t typically find relatable. … Fong is an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine.
For the full story, please visit https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/03/07/the-parent-trap-investigating-families-kelley-fong/.
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