Michaela Christy Simmons
Biographic Data
| ID | 925806 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michaela Christy Simmons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michaela Christy |
| FAMILY NAME | Simmons |
| SIGNATURE | SIMMONS M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4153-4039 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nobody’s Children
While scholars show that child protection is tied to the regulation of motherhood, we know little about how mothers of color were treated in early child welfare history. To address this gap, this article traces how racial logics of maternal unfitness emerged in foster care services and shaped parental rights. Using case files and archival documents from New York child welfare agencies, this study establishes the racial myth of the “uninterested m…
The Racial Origins of Foster Home Care
Black family values and behavior have long been at the center of policy solutions to intergenerational poverty. But in the early twentieth century, the Black family took on paradoxical significance as a solution to child poverty and neglect through the foster family. This was part of a broad realignment in child protection that upheld the "Home" as the best place for children-yet the concept came to mean something different for White and Black yo…
Becoming Wards of the State
Using archival materials from the Domestic Relations Court of New York City, this article traces the conflict between private institutions and the state over responsibility for neglected African American children in the early twentieth century. After a long history of exclusion by private child welfare, the court assumed public responsibility for the protection of children of all races. Yet, in an arrangement of delegated governance, judges found…
Becoming Wards of the State
Using archival materials from the Domestic Relations Court of New York City, this article traces the conflict between private institutions and the state over responsibility for neglected African American children in the early twentieth century. After a long history of exclusion by private child welfare, the court assumed public responsibility for the protection of children of all races. Yet, in an arrangement of delegated governance, judges found…
The Racial Origins of Foster Home Care
Black family values and behavior have long been at the center of policy solutions to intergenerational poverty. But in the early twentieth century, the Black family took on paradoxical significance as a solution to child poverty and neglect through the foster family. This was part of a broad realignment in child protection that upheld the "Home" as the best place for children-yet the concept came to mean something different for White and Black yo…
Becoming Wards of the State
Using archival materials from the Domestic Relations Court of New York City, this article traces the conflict between private institutions and the state over responsibility for neglected African American children in the early twentieth century. After a long history of exclusion by private child welfare, the court assumed public responsibility for the protection of children of all races. Yet, in an arrangement of delegated governance, judges found…
The Racial Origins of Foster Home Care
Black family values and behavior have long been at the center of policy solutions to intergenerational poverty. But in the early twentieth century, the Black family took on paradoxical significance as a solution to child poverty and neglect through the foster family. This was part of a broad realignment in child protection that upheld the "Home" as the best place for children-yet the concept came to mean something different for White and Black yo…
Nobody’s Children
While scholars show that child protection is tied to the regulation of motherhood, we know little about how mothers of color were treated in early child welfare history. To address this gap, this article traces how racial logics of maternal unfitness emerged in foster care services and shaped parental rights. Using case files and archival documents from New York child welfare agencies, this study establishes the racial myth of the “uninterested m…
Child Welfare and Adoption (2 works) · Foster care (2 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Child protection (1 works) · Compromise (1 works)