Presents a case study of how public policy about reproduction and crime is made. This title uses secondary research and first-hand interviews with legislators and prosecutors to examine attitudes toward the criminalization and/or medicalization of drug use during pregnancy by the legislature and criminal justice system in California.

An examination of the current state of probate law and the inability of legislators to recognize and provide for the broad range of families in America today, this book should be read by those with an interest in the relationship between families and the law across a range of academic disciplines.