Moral Responsibility for Coerced Wrongdoing: The Case of Abused Women Who 'Fail to Protect' Their Children
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Women in abusive relationships are highly vulnerable to coercion by their abusers in a variety of ways. This essay explores one way in which abusive relationships may compromise the moral agency of an abused woman in cases where the same man who is abusing the woman is also abusing children in her care. Courts have sometimes charged such women with "failure to protect" their children from this abuse. This essay considers three ways of assessing whether or not the women have diminished...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2014 |
Type: | Book chapter |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/25311 |
Book Title: | Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy |
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