Mothers Who Fail to Protect Their Children from Sexual Abuse: Addressing the Problem of Denial
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1994
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Yale Law & Policy Review
Abstract
This
Note will explore how the law treats and should treat mothers who allow their
children to be sexually abused by the mothers' partners. Specifically, this Note
considers two questions. First, should the state impose criminal liability upon
mothers who do not intervene to stop the sexual abuse of their children because the mothers are in a state of denial about the abuse? And second, if the state
should not impose criminal liability, how should it deal with these "mothers in
denial"?
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child sexual abuse, law, denial, nonoffending caregivers, criminal liability, mothers' response
Citation
Adams, C. (1994). Mothers who fail to protect their children from sexual abuse: Addressing the problem of denial. Yale Law & Policy Review., 12, 519.