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NCJ Number:	158392

Title:	Maternal Crack Cocaine Use: Ethnographic Reports

Author(s):	S Murphy; M H Kearney; M Rosenbaum

Date Published:	1991

Page Count:	31

Sponsoring Agency:	Institute for Scientific Analysis San Francisco, CA 94123

Sale Source:	Institute for Scientific Analysis 2235 Lombard Street San Francisco, CA 94123 United States of America

Type:	Survey

Language:	English

Country:	United States of America

Annotation:	This report presents an ethnographic perspective on the issue of mothers who use crack cocaine.

Abstract:	The report discusses various feminist theories of motherhood, focusing on its historical, economic, and social-psychological context in American society. Mothering, in its contemporary configuration, is intrinsic to individual women's sense of self and identity. Preliminary qualitative data collected from crack-smoking mothers are used to describe their strategies for combining crack and motherhood, managing their feelings of guilt, and relinquishing the mothering role as both a consequence and a strategy of their drug abuse. The paper discusses some links between 19th-century political solutions for so-called unfit families and child removal policies enacted recently. 5 references

Main Term(s):	Children of drug abusers

Index Term(s):	Crack; Ethnomethodology; Parental attitudes

Note:	DCC. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA, November 21, 1991.



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