redefining, reconstructing, and recreating the battered mother in child protective proceedings
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Harvard Women's Law Journal
- Magazine Year
- 1999
- Magazine Number
- spring
- Creator
- Miccio, G.K.
- Thesaurus
- geweld, huiselijk geweld, moeders, kindermishandeling
- Description
- The author argues that where the state alleges failure to protect against a battered mother, the appropriate standard must particularize and account for the violence. Morover, she argues that culture structures relationships within the family and measures appropriate maternal behavior according to a generalized standard. To particularize the violence, deconstruct the normative process and reconstruct the materiality of battered mothers' lives, the appropriate standard is a reasonable battered mother test (RBMT).