Honored to contribute to the @LPEblog symposium on #TornApart and #ProsecutingPoverty.

In my piece, I apply Victor Rios's idea of the youth control complex to trace the "maternal control complex" evident in Wendy Bach's and @dorothyeroberts's work: https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-maternal-control-complex/

The Maternal Control Complex

In carefully chronicling the history, logic, and operations of the child welfare system and Tennessee’s fetal assault law, Dorothy Roberts and Wendy Bach give us accounts not of singular systems…

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