Written Reflection:
In our final ethnographic book, System Kids: Adolescent Mothers and the Politics of Regulation (2015), anthropologist Lauren Silver discusses the complex everyday experiences of young mothers in U.S. foster care. She also highlights the work challenges of case managers/social workers who are charged with supporting these teen moms by the local child welfare system in New York.
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Get Help Now!Define – in your own words what Silver means with the following statements,
“The better places don’t want teen moms” (1 point)
“The program allowed me to get pregnant” (1 point)
Identify – two examples, of social workers that have to adopt quasi-parental roles while also managing the girls and their young families in state custody (the foster care system). (1 point each, 2 points total)
Analyze – one of the questions below (1 point)
How does this ethnographic study reveal gendered norms of parenting and the social work profession?
How does this ethnographic study demonstrate the significance of race and class regarding social services like foster care in the United States?
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