by Stephen M. Krason, Esq., Ph.D.

"A GRAVE THREAT TO THE FAMILY: AMERICAN LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY ON CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT." Click here for full text of article()

This essay originally appeared in Defending the Family: A Sourcebook, edited by Paul C. Vitz and Stephen M. Krason (Steubenville, Ohio: Catholic Social Science Press, 1998), pp. 235-267. This book can be purchased from Franciscan University Bookstore (http:/bookstore.franciscan.edu). It also appears in The Public Order and the Sacred Order, an anthology of Krason's writings, which is the first book in the SCSS/Scarecrow Press "Catholic Social Thought Book Series." Click here for the link.

 
These are additional articles by Stephen M. Krason in The Catholic Social Science Review on the threat to parental rights by the current child abuse laws and child protective system: "On Sunburned Kids, Arbitrary Sheriffs, and the Folly and Danger of the Child ‘Protective’ System"() (vol. VII); "Child Abuse and Neglect: Failed Policy and Assault on Innocent Parents"() (vol. X); and "The Critics of Current Child Abuse Laws and the Child Protective System: A Survey of the Leading Literature"() (vol. XII).

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