Earlier this month, child welfare expert Richard Wexler wrote an Op-Ed for WitnessLA titled, “As The New York Times Condemns “Crack Baby” Journalism, The Orange County Register Revives It.”
The op-ed had to do with a recent eight-part New York Times editorial series that, as Wexler pointed out, has “important implications for child welfare – and for journalism.”
In particular, Wexler wrote about parts four and five of the series, which examined the tendency of child welfare policies to “zero in on pregnant women who use drugs,” and thus, he said make everything worse for such women and, their children by demonizing the mothers and by incorrectly describing the women’s kids as permanently broken by the mother’s drug use. “Crack babies,” as they used to be called.
[For more on this story by Celeste Fremon, go to https://witnessla.com/the-oran...ack-baby-journalism/]
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