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SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF MARY BETH WHITEHEAD

Tufts University School of Medicine, New England Medical Center, Fellow in Psychopharmacology

Although the testimony of mental health experts in custody cases is supposed to be scientific and objective, the experts' testimony in the Mary Beth Whitehead case was imbued with prevailing middle-class biases about good mothers and good parenting. Close review of the experts' reports fails to substantiate many of their assessments and recommendations and demonstrates instead a consistent bias in favor of the Sterns and against Mary Beth Whitehead.

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