It takes the average reader 3 hours and 31 minutes to read System Kids by Lauren J. Silver
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System Kids considers the daily lives of adolescent mothers as they negotiate the child welfare system to meet the needs of their children and themselves. Often categorized as dependent and delinquent, these young women routinely become wards of the state as they move across the legal and social borders of a fragmented urban bureaucracy. Combining critical policy study and ethnography, and drawing on current scholarship as well as her own experience as a welfare program manager, Lauren Silver demonstrates how social welfare "silos" construct the lives of youth as disconnected, reinforcing...
System Kids by Lauren J. Silver is 211 pages long, and a total of 52,961 words.
This makes it 71% the length of the average book. It also has 65% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 49 minutes to read System Kids aloud.
System Kids is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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