{"id":15238,"date":"2020-10-03T22:24:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T22:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/?p=15238"},"modified":"2020-10-09T18:18:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T18:18:59","slug":"the-vilification-of-mothers-and-crack-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/2020\/10\/the-vilification-of-mothers-and-crack-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vilification of Mothers and Crack Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reporting on the crack epidemic worried more than anything else about what the future criminality crack babies would bring, and the instability of their mothers. The absence of outside factors that affect drug-using women from the media allowed newspapers to blame drug-using mothers for moral failure and lack of responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RichardsonPandemicProject by Elizabeth Richardson\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F904156822&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=975&amp;maxwidth=650\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Works Cited:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Besharov, Douglas J. &ldquo;CRACK BABIES THE WORST THREAT IS MOM HERSELF.&rdquo; <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, WP Company, 6 Aug. 1989, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/opinions\/1989\/08\/06\/crack-babies-the-worst-threat-is-mom-herself\/d984f0b2-7598-4dc1-9846-3418df3a5895\/?utm_term=.1385f8a34d9e\">www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/opinions\/1989\/08\/06\/crack-babies-the-worst-threat-is-mom-herself\/d984f0b2-7598-4dc1-9846-3418df3a5895\/?utm_term=.1385f8a34d9e<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li><li>Blakeslee, Sandra. &ldquo;Crack&rsquo;s Toll Among Babies: A Joyless View, Even of Toys.&rdquo; The New York Times, The New York Times, 17 Sept. 1989, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1989\/09\/17\/us\/crack-s-toll-among-babies-a-joyless-view-even-of-toys.html?pagewanted=all\">www.nytimes.com\/1989\/09\/17\/us\/crack-s-toll-among-babies-a-joyless-view-even-of-toys.html?pagewanted=all<\/a><\/li><li>Chira, Susan. &ldquo;CHILDREN OF CRACK: ARE THE SCHOOLS READY? &ndash; A SPECIAL REPORT: Crack Babies Turn 5, and Schools Brace.&rdquo; <em>The New York Times<\/em>, The New York Times, 25 May 1990, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1990\/05\/25\/us\/children-crack-are-schools-ready-special-report-crack-babies-turn-5-schools.html?pagewanted=all\">www.nytimes.com\/1990\/05\/25\/us\/children-crack-are-schools-ready-special-report-crack-babies-turn-5-schools.html?pagewanted=all<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li><li>Springer, Kristen W. &ldquo;The Race and Class Privilege of Motherhood: The New York Times Presentations of Pregnant Drug-Using Women.&rdquo; <em>Sociological Forum<\/em>, vol. 25, no. 3, 2010, pp. 476&ndash;499. <em>JSTOR<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/40783512\">www.jstor.org\/stable\/40783512<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li><li>&ldquo;TIME Magazine Cover: Kids Addicted to Crack &ndash; May 13, 1991.&rdquo; <em>Time<\/em>, Time Inc., <a href=\"http:\/\/content.time.com\/time\/covers\/0,16641,19910513,00.html\">http:\/\/content.time.com\/time\/covers\/0,16641,19910513,00.html<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reporting on the crack epidemic worried more than anything else about what the future criminality crack babies would bring, and the instability of their mothers. The absence of outside factors that affect drug-using women from the media allowed newspapers to blame drug-using mothers for moral failure and lack of responsibility. Works Cited: Besharov, Douglas J. \u201cCRACK BABIES THE WORST THREAT IS MOM HERSELF.\u201d The Washington Post, WP Company, 6 Aug. 1989, www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/opinions\/1989\/08\/06\/crack-babies-the-worst-threat-is-mom-herself\/d984f0b2-7598-4dc1-9846-3418df3a5895\/?utm_term=.1385f8a34d9e\u00a0Blakeslee, Sandra. \u201cCrack&#8217;s Toll Among Babies: A Joyless View, Even of Toys.\u201d The New York Times, The New York Times, 17 Sept. 1989, www.nytimes.com\/1989\/09\/17\/us\/crack-s-toll-among-babies-a-joyless-view-even-of-toys.html?pagewanted=allChira, Susan. \u201cCHILDREN OF CRACK: ARE THE SCHOOLS READY? &#8211; A SPECIAL REPORT: Crack Babies Turn 5, and Schools Brace.\u201d The New York Times, The New York Times, 25 May 1990, www.nytimes.com\/1990\/05\/25\/us\/children-crack-are-schools-ready-special-report-crack-babies-turn-5-schools.html?pagewanted=all\u00a0Springer, Kristen W. \u201cThe Race and Class Privilege of Motherhood: The New York Times Presentations of Pregnant Drug-Using Women.\u201d Sociological Forum, vol. 25, no. 3, 2010, pp. 476\u2013499. JSTOR, www.jstor.org\/stable\/40783512\u00a0\u201cTIME Magazine Cover: Kids Addicted to Crack &#8211; May 13, 1991.\u201d Time, Time Inc., http:\/\/content.time.com\/time\/covers\/0,16641,19910513,00.html<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2774,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2774"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15283,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238\/revisions\/15283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}