{"id":3179,"date":"2009-11-14T19:39:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T19:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2013-07-31T03:13:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T03:13:35","slug":"white-mothers-mixed-parentage-children-and-child-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3179","title":{"rendered":"White Mothers, Mixed-Parentage Children and Child Welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bjsw.oxfordjournals.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/29\/2\/269\" target=\"_blank\">White Mothers, Mixed-Parentage Children and Child Welfare<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>British Journal of Social Work<br \/>\nVolume 29, Number 2 (1999)<br \/>\npages 269-284<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pure.rhul.ac.uk\/portal\/en\/persons\/ravinder-barn(cc2d3359-e92b-41ce-8247-1b4dff6409b5).html\" target=\"_blank\">Ravinder Barn<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work<br \/>\n<em>Royal Holloway, University of London<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is now well documented that <strong>the majority of mixed-parentage children who enter the public care system in Britain have a white biological mother and a black African Caribbean father.<\/strong> This paper explores some of the underlying factors which increase the vulnerability of mixed-parentage children. The situation of white single mothers is examined in the context of \u2018race\u2019, class, gender and location in British society. Empirical findings from two recent research studies provide a profile of white single mothers and their children in receipt of social work help and assistance. Areas for further discussion are raised within this framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Mothers, Mixed-Parentage Children and Child Welfare British Journal of Social Work Volume 29, Number 2 (1999) pages 269-284 Ravinder Barn, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London It is now well documented that the majority of mixed-parentage children who enter the public care system in Britain have a white [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,8,26,394,10],"tags":[734,735],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-british-journal-of-social-work","tag-ravinder-barn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}