目次

Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I. THE CYCLE; Chapter 1: The world black children enter Black America; Inner-city impoverished neighborhoods; Parental dysfunction; Community dysfunction; Chapter 2: How we perpetuate the cycle; Pre-natal harm; The state’s bad parentage decision-making; Attachment failure; Hostile residential environment; Foster care decision-making; Lack of preparation for school; Bad schools; Direct neighborhood effects; PART II. BREAKING THE CYCLE; Chapter 3: Conception and pre-natal life; Prevent people unfit to parent from Conceiving; Prevent pregnant women from harming the fetus; Justifying pregnancy-related coercion; Chapter 4: Sparing children from unfit parents; Steps to appropriate state parentage decision-making for newborns; Justifying better parentage decision-making; Chapter 5: Separating children from bad neighborhoods; Failure of the liberal approach; Family law decisions that can relocate children; No-child residential areas; Justifying separation of children from blight; PART III. LIBERAL SUPPORTS FOR THE CYCLE; Chapter 6: Liberal’s search for the Holy Grail; The magic pill for reducing maltreatment rates; Fighting back against the carceral state by imprisoning babies; Chapter 7: Understanding and overcoming liberal resistance; The liberal mindset; The conservative mindset; Conclusion; Appendix; Index