Annotated Bibliography

Wexlar, Richard. Wounded Innocents. New York: Buffalo, 1990. 186-187.
This book talks about what the author calls, “the war against children”. Wexlar describes how the war against child abuse has become the war against children. The book identifies numerous things that are wrong with our child protection services and supports those allegations by telling several stories of different families that have had their world shattered by our system.
I feel that this book is a well written book, and definitely goes into details on both sides of the families side. He gives examples of children that needed child protective services and they weren’t there, as well as the ones that had their lives shattered by removal.
I think that this book was useful to me and my research because it wasn’t a government fact sheet that had to appease the people. It dug deep into the not so pretty instances of child protective services breaking apart families instead of keeping them together.