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Defining The Parent's Duty After Rejection Of Parent-Child Immunity: Parental Liability For Emotional Injury To Abandoned Children, Reid H. Hamilton
Defining The Parent's Duty After Rejection Of Parent-Child Immunity: Parental Liability For Emotional Injury To Abandoned Children, Reid H. Hamilton
Vanderbilt Law Review
Child neglect and abandonment are serious problems in the United States. The number of children in foster care in the United States has risen from a third of a million in 1971 to over 750,000 in 1979. A significant number of these children have been abandoned voluntarily and permanently by their parents. Abandoned children suffer marked psychological consequences; even after receiving the best available foster care, such children suffer adverse emotional effects throughout their adult lives.' Due to the traditional American rule granting parents immunity from personal injury suits by their minor children, abandoned children generally have been uncompensated for …