Gender-based relations of power and attributions of blame for child sexual abuse have been longstanding in child welfare policy and practice. Nonoffending mothers continue to be ascribed responsibility through the ideologically and institutionally entrenched doctrine of failure to protect. Feminist critical discourse analysis was used to (a) expose and disrupt dominant discourses of gender, motherhood, and risk that operate to construct and reinforce notions of blame and failure to protect, as enacted by way of child welfare text in context; and (b) build a credible case for social and organizational change grounded in an alternative discourse with greater explanatory power. Progressive avenues for resistance, negotiation, and transformation are proposed.

基于性别的权力关系和儿童性虐待的责任归属在儿童福利政策和实践中长期存在。由于意识形态和制度上根深蒂固的未能保护的教义，无罪的母亲继续被赋予责任。女权主义批判性话语分析被用来（a）揭露和破坏关于性别、母性和风险的主流话语，这些话语构建和强化了责备和未能保护的概念，如儿童福利文本所体现的那样； (b) 建立一个可信的社会和组织变革案例，以具有更大解释力的替代性话语为基础。提出了抵抗、谈判和变革的渐进途径。