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Paltrow, Lynn M. – Future of Children, 1991
Addresses the issue of drug-exposed infants from the perspective of a reproductive rights attorney. States genuinely interested in promoting healthy children will stop ignoring women or treating them as potential child abusers and will change the current punitive legal focus to a focus on treatment. (SLD)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Civil Rights, Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction