A Family Torn Apart

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Otokichi Ozaki was one of several hundred immigrant community leaders to be arrested, beginning a long journey for Ozaki and his family. The book traces Ozaki's incarceration in eight different detention camps, his family's life in Hawaii without him and their decision to "voluntarily" enter Mainland detention camps in the hope of reuniting with him.

A Family Torn Apart is a heart-wrenching true story of an eleven-year-old boy seeing and experiencing his family being torn apart. The mother and father had four children, all of them boys. The family definitely had its ups and downs. The parents separated in 1954, and three of the boys were sent to foster homes. The youngest boy lived with his mother.The family reunited in 1958, and lived for four years on a farm in Montezuma, Kansas. After a horrible accident, the family spiraled dow

Justina D. Neufeld tells the story of one family's flight from Soviet Ukraine in the early years of the Second World War. Beginning her narrative in her youth, Neufeld recreates the peace and security of growing up in a Mennonite community in Ukraine. With the out-break of the war comes an irrevocable rupture, and Justina is forced to flee the Soviet and German armies along with her family and community.

An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical change Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system is better understood as a “family policing system” that collaborates with law enforcement and prisons to oppress Black communities. Child protection investigations ensnare a majority of Black children, putting their families under intense state surveillance and regulation. Black children are disproportionately likely to be torn from their families and placed in foster care, driving many to juvenile detention and imprisonment. The only way to stop the destruction caused by family policing, Torn Apart argues, is to abolish the child welfare system and liberate Black communities.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Foster carers in the UK have an SSW who supports and monitors them in all aspects of fostering. Most referrals for children who come into care come through the SSW. #2 Foster carers in the UK have an SSW who supports and monitors them in all aspects of fostering. The eldest, who has a different father to the other two girls, has made allegations of sexual abuse against her stepfather. The girls’ mother is standing by her husband.

A Family Torn Apart is a heart-wrenching true story of an eleven-year-old boy seeing and experiencing his family being torn apart. The mother and father had four children, all of them boys. The family definitely had its ups and downs. The parents separated in 1954, and three of the boys were sent to foster homes. The youngest boy lived with his mother. The family reunited in 1958, and lived for four years on a farm in Montezuma, Kansas. After a horrible accident, the family spiraled downward into poverty. They got evicted from their home and moved to Ohio for a new start. This is the story of a new start that quickly ends with the family struggling with alcoholism, abuse, abandonment, and poverty. It also tells about the wild stunts and pranks the children have pulled. Some of the stunts and pranks are humorous and will have you chuckling, while others end sadly and will have you cringing from the pain and suffering the boys endure. This is a true story seen through the eyes of the youngest child. He is eleven years old when he sees his family start to be torn apart.

Previously published as Little Drifters. The harrowing true story of a travelling Irish family bonded by love, broken apart by life, and then betrayed by their carers in a cruel convent in Ireland.