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The Child Cases: How America´s Religious Exemption Laws Harm Children
Alan Rogers
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Description for The Child Cases: How America´s Religious Exemption Laws Harm Children
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRAM; LNDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 381.
When a four-year-old California girl died on March 9, 1984, the state charged her mother with involuntary man-slaughter because she failed to provide her daughter with medical care, choosing instead to rely on spiritual healing. During the next few years, a half dozen other children of Christian Science parents died under similar circumstances. The children’s deaths and the parents’ trials drew national attention, highlighting a deeply rooted, legal/political struggle to define religious freedom.
Through close analysis of these seven cases, legal historian Alan Rogers explores the conflict between religious principles and secular laws that seek to protect children from ... Read more
When a four-year-old California girl died on March 9, 1984, the state charged her mother with involuntary man-slaughter because she failed to provide her daughter with medical care, choosing instead to rely on spiritual healing. During the next few years, a half dozen other children of Christian Science parents died under similar circumstances. The children’s deaths and the parents’ trials drew national attention, highlighting a deeply rooted, legal/political struggle to define religious freedom.
Through close analysis of these seven cases, legal historian Alan Rogers explores the conflict between religious principles and secular laws that seek to protect children from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781625340726
SKU
V9781625340726
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About Alan Rogers
Alan Rogers is professor of history at Boston College and author of Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts (University of Massachusetts Press, 2008).
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