State Actions to Control Fetal Abuse: Ramifications for Child Welfare Practice.

Madden, Robert G.

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ERIC Number: EJ460137

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1993

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State Actions to Control Fetal Abuse: Ramifications for Child Welfare Practice.

Madden, Robert G.

Child Welfare, v72 n2 p129-40 Mar-Apr 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, Parent Responsibility, Prenatal Influences, Public Policy, State Legislation, Substance Abuse

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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