Mothers Who Fail to Protect Their Children from Sexual Abuse: Addressing the Problem of Denial

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dc.contributor.authorAdams, C.
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-27T16:04:33Z
dc.date.available2015-10-27T16:04:33Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractIn Part I, I discuss the psychological phenomenon of denial and how it prevents mothers from intervening to protect their children from intrafamily sexual abuse. In Part II, I examine an emerging trend in courts and legislatures to impose criminal liability upon parents who condone child abuse by their partners. I analyze how these statutory and common law regimes apply to mothers in denial. In Part III, I suggest how the law should deal with mothers in denial. I argue that mothers who are genuinely in denial about the abuse of their children should not be criminally prosecuted in all instances. Rather, they should be offered the choice of participating in psychiatric treatment programs in lieu of prosecution. This approach, I argue, is the most beneficial for the child and the mother.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAdams, C. (2015). Mothers Who Fail to Protect Their Children from Sexual Abuse: Addressing the Problem of Denial. Yale Law & Policy Review, 12(2), 519-539.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1273&context=ylpr
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/2595
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherYale Law & Policy Reviewen_US
dc.subjectdenialen_US
dc.subjectmothersen_US
dc.subjectchild sexual abuseen_US
dc.subjectcourtsen_US
dc.subjectcriminal liabilityen_US
dc.titleMothers Who Fail to Protect Their Children from Sexual Abuse: Addressing the Problem of Denialen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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