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The Child Cases: How America's Religious Exemption Laws Harm Children
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The Child Cases: How America's Religious Exemption Laws Harm Children Paperback - 2014

by Alan Rogers

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  • Title The Child Cases: How America's Religious Exemption Laws Harm Children
  • Author Alan Rogers
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Massachusetts Press
  • Date 2014
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781625340726 / 1625340729
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.13 x 5.98 x 0.73 in (23.19 x 15.19 x 1.85 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Law Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects Child abuse - Law and legislation - United, Freedom of religion - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013050948
  • Dewey Decimal Code 342.730

About the author

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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Paperback / softback. New. 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 abuse and neglect. Christian Scientists argued - often with the support of mainline religious groups - that the First Amendment's "free exercise" clause protected religious belief and behaviour. Insisting that their spiritual care was at least as effective as medical treatment,… Read More
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