CPS definitions apply white middle-class norms to families with differing community standards

Evidence

The study conclusively demonstrated that no shared definition of child abuse exists across professional and community boundaries, and that current CPS definitional practice applies the norms of white middle-class professionals to families whose community standards differ. — , The Rod and the Child, 10375

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to postcolonial analyses of discipline norms and to the broader theme that abuse definitions encode dominant cultural power. — connects to: Black middle-class respectability stigmatized calypso as lower-class degeneracy; Racial classification confused itself when welfare need rested on individual choice; The discipline-abuse boundary reflects institutional social power, not empirical discontinuities in parental acts — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 10371 (+3 more)

Related

• The discipline-abuse boundary reflects institutional social power, not empirical discontinuities in parental acts (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The discipline-abuse boundary reflects institutional social power, not empirical discontinuities in parental acts #expands (0.55) — , The Rod and the Child, 10371
• Racial classification confused itself when welfare need rested on individual choice #expands (0.50)
• The Ethical Policy’s rhetoric of native welfare excluded mixed-race Europeans from its scope #exemplifies (0.40)
• Black middle-class respectability stigmatized calypso as lower-class degeneracy #expands (0.35)