Blaming mothers : American law and the risks to children's health / Linda C. Fentiman.
Material type:
TextSeries: Families, law, and society seriesPublisher: New York : New York University Press, 2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780814770290
- Child abuse -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Mothers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
- Pregnant women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
- Mother and child -- United States
- Children -- Health and hygiene -- United States
- Health risk assessment -- United States
- Health and Wellbeing
- Social services & welfare, criminology
- 362.10830973 23
- KF9323 .F46 2017
Previously issued in print: 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In the past several decades, medicine, the media, and popular culture have focused on mothers as the primary source of health risk for their children, even though American children are healthier than ever. The American legal system both reflects and reinforces this conception of risk. This work explores how this occurs by looking at unconscious psychological processes, including the ways in which we perceive risk, which shape the actions of key legal decisionmakers, including prosecutors, judges, and jurors.
Specialized.
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