Helping Women Helping Children: Drug Policy and Future Generations
本文批判了当前对孕期药物滥用采取法律惩罚的做法,认为这种基于母婴对抗关系的政策无效,主张转向支持性政策,通过帮助女性来保护胎儿和儿童。
Our primary social response to substance abuse during pregnancy has been legal, punitive, and coercive. Rooted in the belief that the maternal-fetal relationship is primarily adversarial in nature, this response is unlikely to deter women from abusing drugs during pregnancy. An alternative perspective in which the maternal-fetal relationship is viewed as an interactive unit where the needs of one define the needs of both would be more appropriate. Only by assisting rather than punishing women are we likely to help them, their fetuses, and their children.