SANE/FNE Albuquerque SANE Collaborative Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Summary: Mothers who experience violence are being disproportionately criminalized under Failure to Protect laws and their children are being placed with the offending parent.
Learning Objectives:
how mothers who suffer from intimate partner violence/domestic violence are treated within the criminal justice system.
children being removed from the care of their mothers under failure to protect laws and often placed in the custody of the offending parent.
how criminalization occurs more harshly with a mother for not protecting her child than it does for a father.
