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37 See Lee Daniels, “The American Way: Blame a Black Man,” Emerge, February 1995, pp. 60-66; Joe Feagin and Hernan Vera, White Racism (New York: Routledge, 1995), ch. 4; Caryl Rivers, Slick Spins and Fractured Facts (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), ch. 12; Regina Brett, “Urban Myth of Race Attacks Lives on After Stories Die,” Houston Chronicle, 28 November 1995, p. 2.
38 John McCormick, “Why Parents Kill,” Newsweek, 14 November 1994, pp. 27-34; Rick Bragg, “Smith Defense Portrays a Life of ‘Chaos’,” New York Times, 27 July 1995, p. A14. See also David Smith, with Carol Calef, Beyond All Reason(New York: Kensington, 1995).
39 Jennifer Gonnerman, “Omissions of Guilt,” In These Times, 21 August 1995, pp. 9-10; Robert Scheer, “The River of Hypocrisy Runs Wide and Deep,” Los Angeles Times, 1 August 1995, p. B9. See also George Rekers, Susan Smith: Victim or Murderer? (Lakewood, CO: Glenbridge, 1995).
40 Margaret Kearney, Sheigla Murphy, and Marsha Rosenbaum, “Mothering on Crack Cocaine,” Social Science and Medicine 38 (1994): 351-61; Marsha Rosenbaum, Sheigla Murphy et al., “Women and Crack,” in A. Treback and K. Zeese, eds., Drug Prohibition and the Conscience of Nations (Washington, DC: Drug Policy Foundation, 1990), pp. 69-72. See also Loren Siegel, “The Pregnancy Police Fight the War on Drugs,” in C. Reinarman and H. Levine, eds., Crack in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), pp. 229—48; Margaret Kearney, Sheigla Murphy, and Marsha Rosenbaum, “Learning by Losing,” Qualitative Health Research 4 (1994): 142-62; Stephen Kandall, Substance and Shadow (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996); Drew Humphries, “Crack Mothers at 6,” Violence Against Women 4 (1998): 45-61.
41 For an alternate but compatible interpretation of contemporary stories about homicidal mothers see Annalee Newitz, “Murdering Mothers,” in M. Ladd-Taylor and L. Umansky, eds., “Bad” Mothers (New York: New York University Press, 1998), pp. 334-55.
42 Michael Shapiro, “The Lives We Would Like to Set Right,” Columbia Journalism Review (November 1996): 45-48.
43 Unsigned editorial, “Courting Fairness for Voters,” New York Daily News, 15 June 1996, p. 16; Jorge Fitz-Gibbon, “Ex-Foster Mom’s Tears at Death Photos” and “Mom Blames Hubby in Girl’s Slay,” New York Daily News, 3 May and 4 May 1996, pp. 11 and 5, respectively; Douglas Martin, “Children Testify in Murder Trial of Mother,” New York Times, 30 April 1996, p. B5. The other murders: Chuck Sudetic, “Mother Charged in Assault of Girl Found with Burns,” New York Times, 3 January 1996, p. B2; Randy Kennedy, “Mother Kills Children and Herself After Family Dispute,” New York Times, 21 January, 1996, p. A26.
44 Kennedy, “Mother Kills Children.”
45 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services news release, 18 September 1996.
46 Steve Calvin, “First Came Legal Abortions, Then Rise in Child Abuse,” Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 2 October 1996, p. A15.
47 NCPCA figures from Douglas Besharov, with Jacob Dembosky, “Child Abuse: Threat or Menace?” Slate, 3 October 1996 (online).
48 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services news release, 18 September 1996; Barbara Vobejda, “HHS Study Finds Sharp Rise in Child Abuse,” Washington Post, 19 September 1996, p. A8; “Child Abuse Has Become a Human Rights Dilemma in U.S.,” Dallas Morning News, 20 September 1996, p. A24. Critique of Shalala study: Besharov, “Child Abuse: Threat or Menace?” and see a follow-up exchange, “Fact Abuse,” posted in Slate, 23 October 1996.
49 Armin Brott, “When Women Abuse Men: It’s Far More Widespread Than People Think,” Washington Post, 28 December 1993, p. C5; “Husbands Are Battered as Often as Wives,” USA Today, 23 June 1994, p. D8; Wendy McElroy, “The Unfair Sex?” National Review, 1 May 1995, p. 74; John Leo, “Things That Go Bump in the Home,” U.S. News & World Report, 13 May 1996, p. 25; Dennis Byrne, “Men Taking Their Lumps,” Chicago Sun—Times, 21 May 1998, p. 33.
50 Other examples of misuse of Gelles’s research: