Parental notification laws

["Jane Siegel" <jasiegel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am passing along this request for Tracy Davis, a staff attorney with 
the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence in their 
Washington, D.C. office.   If you have any suggestions for her, please 
e-mail her directly at tjd@xxxxxxxxx

Her request:

We currently are working on a "friend of the court" brief for a case 
that the Supreme Court will hear this fall.  The case has to do with 
abortion parental notification laws.  Our brief is taking the 
perspective of how these laws endanger and are unconstitutional for 
abused teens.  This perspective includes teens abused by their 
parents/guardian and teens in abusive dating relationships.

As lawyers, we are doing our best at researching social science data 
about how parental notification laws place abused teens at greater risk 
and/or impact their decision-making process regarding accessing 
abortion/sexual health care serivces.  We are reaching out to some 
social scientists in an effort to get suggestions on whose work 
(articles, data, books, etc...) might be particularly on point.  And it 
would be great if the research had a class and race perspective as well.

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Jane A. Siegel, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice
Rutgers University
405-07 Cooper Street
Camden, NJ 08102

(856) 225-6143 - Phone
(856) 225-6435 - Fax

jasiegel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx