No Way to Treat a Child, Naomi Schaefer Riley
No Way to Treat a Child, Naomi Schaefer Riley
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No Way to Treat a Child
How the Foster Care System, Family Courts, and Racial Activists Are Wrecking Young Lives

Author: Naomi Schaefer Riley

Narrator: Rosemary Benson

Unabridged: 11 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/12/2021

Synopsis

The American child welfare system is bent toward protecting adults, not children.

Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe—all with the inevitable result that their most precious developmental years are lost in bureaucratic and judicial red tape. It is time to stop letting efforts to fix the child welfare system get derailed by activists who are concerned with race-matching, blood ties, and the abstract demands of social justice, and start asking the most important question: Where are the emotionally and financially stable, loving, and permanent homes where these kids can thrive?

About Naomi Schaefer Riley

Naomi Schaefer Riley is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute focusing on issues regarding child welfare; a senior fellow at the Independent Women's Forum; and a writer who examines parenting, higher education, religion, philanthropy, and culture.

She is a former columnist for the New York Post and has worked as a Wall Street Journal editor and writer. She is also the author of six books, including, Be the Parent, Please: Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat.

Her book, Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage is Transforming America, was named an editor's pick by the New York Times Book Review.

Ms. Riley's writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the LA Times, and the Washington Post, among other publications. She appears regularly on Fox News, Fox Business, and CNBC. She has also appeared on Q&A with Brian Lamb as well as the Today Show.

She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in English and Government. She lives in the suburbs of New York with her husband, Jason, and their three children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mtp on November 20, 2021

When Karen Finds Out Other People Aren't Raising Kids to Her Standards... Guess what the conservative author recommends for improving child welfare systems? More money, more Congressional oversight and more white people being lauded for repairing the problems of black brown and Indigenous families WTA......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on May 17, 2022

If you want to take a hard look at an incredibly broken system, No Way to Treat a Child is the perfect read. In it, Riley dives into the problems plaguing the the American Child Welfare machine. She illustrates how the system is set up for the benefit of the adults, leaving children to languish in i......more

Goodreads review by Emily on October 12, 2022

Fantastic book. Discussed all the typical concerns people have with the child welfare system, while also covering lesser-known issues that most definitely contribute to the pitfalls that seem to be universal in all 50 states. As a foster parent I have witnessed (either first hand, or through the acc......more

Goodreads review by Aubrey on October 21, 2021

a must read If you’re interested in foster care, or just the welfare of children, this is an eye opening read about the truth behind the stereotypes of our foster care system, the serious issues and problems also with it, and some solutions to the problems posed. It will take courage of ordinary peo......more

Goodreads review by Sandy on October 23, 2021

"What would it mean for our child-welfare system to be oriented around the best interests of children? It would mean that every child would get the kind of love and protection they deserve." This book is a must-read and it is time we put child safety first in this country. Too many children are dying......more

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