Professor Katherine C. Pearson quoted in New York Times Magazine article

CARLISLE, PA—Professor Katherine C. Pearson was recently quoted in a New York Times Magazine article about adults caring for parents who abused them as children.

Pearson addressed filial-responsibility law in Pennsylvania, one of fewer than two dozen states that retain such a law. She discussed her experience lecturing about the law: “And whenever I describe the law, I always see one person’s face get very frightened. And I know that they will come up and meet with me, and they will tell me a story about how their parent had been a bad parent.”

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Professor Katherine C. Pearson teaches courses on contract law and elder law and is also the Arhtur L. and Sandra S. Piccone Faculty Scholar for Penn State Dickinson Law. She recently completed a Fulbright Fellowship at University of Ottawa in Canada researching comparative approaches to access to justice.