Description: The public guardian of Cook County, Illinois, charges that the child welfare bureaucracy, designed to help children, is instead helping to destroy them. "Murphy explains the facts and failures of the child welfare system--and offers solutions--better than any expert I've ever read on the subject....A first-rate read--poignant and instructive."--Edward I. Koch.
Review Quotes:
"A splendid book." --Msgr. John Egan, DePaul University
"Honest and self-reflective...written with wit and great knowledge." --Boris M. Astrachan, M.D., Chairman Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago "Wasted is a first-rate read-poignant and instructive." --Edward I. Koch, Former Mayor, New York City "Insightful and passionate...a book about responsibility and of how shirking it leads to social catastrophe." --Ellis Cose, Author of Color-Blind and The Rage of a Privileged Class "A powerful indictment of the child welfare system...its message deserves a broad hearing among those who care about our society's children." --Elizabeth Bartholet