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"Don't Let Your Pregnancy Get in the Way of Your Drug Addiction": CRACK and the Ideological Construction of Addicted Women.

The article analyzes the rhetorical strategies used by CRACK (Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity), a private nonprofit organization that pays women in impoverished areas to take long-term contraceptives (LTC) and for their permanent sterilization. The author argues that CRACK exploits women with...

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Published in:Social Justice Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 125 - 145
Main Author: Derkas, Erika
Format: Article
Published: Social Justice 2011
Subjects:
Drug use in pregnancy
Women with drug addiction
Poor women
Contraceptives
Sterilization (Birth control)
Discourse analysis
Services for poor people
Public relations in nonprofit organizations
Rhetoric
Prevention
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article analyzes the rhetorical strategies used by CRACK (Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity), a private nonprofit organization that pays women in impoverished areas to take long-term contraceptives (LTC) and for their permanent sterilization. The author argues that CRACK exploits women with drug addictions by comparing their assumed cultural background with popular notions of white, middle-class motherhood. Exploring long-term effects for women and children, the article suggests that CRACK's philosophy and public discourse claiming a logical solution to prenatal drug exposure is false.