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77 Sandra Blakeslee, “Child-Rearing Is Stormy When Drugs Cloud Birth,” New York Times, 19 May 1990, pp. A1, 9; Michele Norris, “And the Children Shall Need,” Washington Post, 1 July 1991, pp. A1, 8; “Crack Babies: The Numbers Mount,” Los Angeles Times, 13 March 1990, p. B6.
78 Michael Dorris, “A Desperate Crack Legacy,” Newsweek, 25 June 1990, p. 8; and see also Charles Krauthammer, “Children of Cocaine,” Washington Post, 30 July 1989, p. C7. Foster mother quoted in W Russell Neuman et al., Common Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), p. 73.
79 Anastasia Toufexis, “Innocent Victims,” Time, 13 May 1991; and Norris, “And the Children Shall Need.”
80 Norris, “And the Children Shall Need”; Toufexis, “Innocent Victims.”
81 Barry Zuckerman, “‘Crack Kids’: Not Broken,” Pediatrics 89 (1992): 337-39; Drew Humphries, “Crack Mothers, Drug Wars, and the Politics of Resentment,” in K. Tunnell, ed., Political Crime in Contemporary America (New York: Garland, 1993), pp. 31-48; John Morgan and Lynn Zimmer, “The Social Pharmacology of Smokable Cocaine,” in C. Reinarman and H. Levine, eds., Crack in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), pp. 131-70; Gretchen Vogel, “Cocaine Wreaks Subtle Damage on Developing Brains,” Science 278 (3 October 1997): 38-39.
82 Associated Press story: Dana Kennedy, “Children Born Addicted to Crack Defy Experts,” Los Angeles Times, 27 December 1992, p. A16. Joseph Treaster, “For Children of Cocaine, Fresh Reasons for Hope,” New York Times, 16 February 1993, pp. A1, B4; Stephanie Mencimer, “Nursing a Miracle: A D.C. Story,” Washington Post, 6 February 1994, pp. C1, 4. See also Bernard Gavzer, “Can They Beat the Odds?” Parade Magazine, 27 July 1997, pp. 4-5. The Post eventually published a more neutral report: Susan FitzGerald, “‘Crack Baby’ Fears May Have Been Overstated,” Washington Post, 16 September 1997, p. Z10.
83 Sheila Simmons, “Greater Cleveland’s First Crack Babies Are Now in School,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, 11 December 1994, p. 8. Another example of a corrective story: Annmarie Sarsfield, “Struggles of a Mother and Son,” TampaTribune, 9 April 1995, p. 1.
84 Humphries, “Crack Mothers”; Katharine Greider, “Crackpot Ideas,” Mother Jones, July-August 1995, pp. 50-56; and see letters to the editor in the subsequent issue. Chasnoff quotes: Kennedy, “Children Born” (“us-versus-them”) and Vogel, “Cocaine Wreaks Subtle Damage” (“poverty”). Government statistics: Richard Kusserow, Crack Babies, (Washington, DC: Dept. of Health and Human Services, 1990).
85 Toufexis, “Innocent Victims.”
86 ABC, “20/20,” 12 January 1996.
87 CBS, “CBS This Morning,” 19 January 1996.
88 Ibid.
Chapter Four
1 Julia Prodis, “Odyssey Ends for Pregnant 10-Year-Old, 22-Year-Old Boyfriend,” Associated Press story in Chicago Tribune, 25 January 1996, p. C2.
2 John Hiscock, “Fears Rise for Pregnant 10-Year-Old,” Daily Telegraph,25 January 1996, p. 3.
3 Jeff Franks, “Pregnant Runaway Older Than Thought, U.S. Officials Say,” Reuters, 25 January 1996; Tony Clark, CNN, 25 January 1996; Prodis, “Odyssey Ends.”
4 Michael Graczyk, “Pregnant Runaway Older Than 10, Officials Say,” Austin American—Statesman, 26 January 1996, p. 3; Sandra Sanchez, “In Texas, Worlds Collide,” USA Today, 29 January p. D1; Franks, “Pregnant Runaway.”
5 “Ricki Lake,” 3 January 1996.
6 Ibid.
7 NPR, “Morning Edition,” 11 September 1995. Whenever journalists focus on unusually young mothers without pointing out their novelty, they substantiate the misimpression. Another example was a New York Times article subtitled “Should a Pregnant Girl, 13, Wed Her Boyfriend, 20?” See B. Drummond Ayres, “Marriage Advised in Some Youth Pregnancies,” New York Times, 9 September 1996, p. A10.
8 Diane Scott-Jones, “Adolescent Childbearing,” Phi Beta Kappan 75 (November 1993): 1.
9 Sally Macintyre and Sarah Cunningham-Burley, “Teenage Pregnancy as a Social Problem,” in A. Lawson and D. Rhode, eds., The Politics ofPregnancy(New