Suggested further reading
W. Wayt Gibbs. “Seeking the Criminal Element.”Scientific American, March 1995.
Christopher Jencks and Kathryn Edin. “Do Poor Women Have a Right to Bear Children?”American Prospect, Winter 1995.
Hugh Lafollette. “Licensing Parents.”Philosophy and Public Affairs 9, no. 2 (1980):182–97.
Harriet L. Rheingold. “To Rear a Child.”American Psychologist, January 1973.
Jack C. Westman.Licensing Parents: Can We Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect? New York: Plenum Press, 1994.
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William M. Epstein is the author of The Dilemma of American Social Welfareand The Illusion of Psychotherapy,both published by Transaction. He has recently completed Welfare in America: A Study in Gray.
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Epstein, W.M. Just a wooden horse. Society 34, 60–61 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02697004
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