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Peer reviewedMadden, Robert G. – Child Welfare, 1993
Reviews recent case law and state statutes for dealing with a pregnant woman's actions which negatively affect her infant. Explains how statutes and case law are applied in civil law to remove a child from the mother at birth and in criminal law to punish a mother while pregnant. (MM)
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Civil Law, Criminal Law, Mothers
