Description: "Explores the failures of family court and calls for immediate and permanent change"--
Brief description: Jane M. Spinak is the Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor Emerita of Law at Columbia Law School.
Review Quotes: "By tracing the origins and persistence of the Great Idea behind the family court--that judges can save children by fixing them and their families--Jane Spinak shows how the court not only has failed to achieve its asserted therapeutic mission, but also has inflicted tremendous harm on its presumed beneficiaries. The End of Family Court makes a compelling case that dismantling the family court is a critical part of abolishing family policing and radically reimagining care for children without destructive state interventions."--Dorothy Roberts, author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build A Safer World