Adams, Christine2022-09-092022-09-091994Adams, C. (1994). Mothers who fail to protect their children from sexual abuse: Addressing the problem of denial. Yale Law & Policy Review., 12, 519.http://hdl.handle.net/11212/5553This 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"?en-USchild sexual abuselawdenialnonoffending caregiverscriminal liabilitymothers' responseArticle