Download or read book Law and Policy Affecting Addicted Women and Their Children written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This hearing examines Federal and state policies designed to address the urgency of prenatal substance abuse. Testimony at the hearing discussed the current difficult circumstances that substance abuse programs and other programs designed to assist drug exposed children and their mothers are experiencing. Topics include: the inability of current programs to provide services to pregnant, substance abusing women; the current trend to punish women for child abuse if they used drugs during pregnancy; and components of model care providing programs. A survey of state legislation pertaining to drug use during pregnancy and a summary of criminal prosecutions against pregnant women are provided.