30.Jul.2010 Measure Would Aid New Jersey Domestic Violence Victims
Good for these New Jersey lawmakers! Hopefully the father’s rights groups don’t try and crush it, like they generally do. These groups need to start acknowledging there are dangerous parents out there. From The New Jersey Herald: TRENTON — Citing the case of a man accused of gunning down his former girlfriend in front of [...]
Custody Evaluators’ Beliefs About Domestic Violence Allegations During Divorce
This was a study done at the University of Illinois by Megan L. Haselschwerdt, Jennifer L. Hardesty, and Jason D. Hans. One-size-fits-all approach to child custody dangerous for mum, child Published: Tuesday, Jul 27, 2010, 17:56 IST Place: Washington, DC | Agency: ANI Child custody evaluators should know how to differentiate between types of violence [...]
29.Jul.2010 Noncustodial Mothers: Opportunity to Publicize Your Case
I am spreading the word for Irene here. It has a short response time. As always, please carefully consider the risks when deciding about revealing your identity- judicial retaliation is a real and dangerous possibility. Only you can assess if you have anything to lose (visitation, etc) by going public. Hi All I’ve just been contacted [...]
28.Jul.2010 There’s Nothing Friendly About Abuse
Here is an article from the current issue of Ms. Magazine, written by someone who gets it…Dr. R. Dianne Bartlow: There’s Nothing Friendly About Abuse Children are at risk when custody cases rely on a meritless theory of parental “alienation” by R. Dianne Bartlow It’s a statistic so unbelievable that it’s difficult to wrap your [...]
26.Jul.2010 Yes, There IS a Crisis in Family Courts
Glenn Sacks and Fathers & Families are crowing about defeating the Center of Judicial Excellence’s attempt to have junk science thrown out of the courtroom. Women get screwed frequently in family courts nationwide….guys do too. And when an injustice happens, it can often be traced back to some unethical, biased psychologist or pseudo-psychologist such as [...]
23.Jul.2010 Interview with Dominique Lasseur, Producer of “Breaking the Silence: The Children’s Stories”
American PBS Documentary “Breaking The Silence The Children’s Stories” What Breaking the Silence Means By Dominique Lasseur Documentary film producer Dominique Lasseur set out to explore the failures of the family court system in “Breaking the Silence: Children’s Stories.” But when public television broadcast the program in the fall of 2005, the father’s rights movement [...]
21.Jul.2010 “I want my child, and no one will believe you”
Well, it isn’t as if we all haven’t heard this before….”no one will believe you.” “Oh my, it’s more FALSE ALLEGATIONS against fathers.” “Mothers always lie to get a leg up in custody battles.” See more of those myths from the American Bar Association here. Thanks for having that tape recorder running, Oksana. (CNN) — [...]
20.Jul.2010 Battered Womens Syndrome
Battered woman syndrome (BWS), first proposed in the 1970s after research demonstrated the psychological impact from domestic violence on the victim, has undergone further clarification since its inception. This entry reviews the historical issues concerning domestic violence and its victims in the criminal justice system (including the criminal and family courts), describes psychological theories about [...]
18.Jul.2010 Helping a Child Manage Fears
This may help you understand what your children are going through after seeing you abused. While suggestions here are for those people in the real world, if you are in family court be careful with these suggestions or you could be labeled with so-called “parental alienation” or Dr. William Bernet’s so-called “parental alienation disorder.” (The [...]
17.Jul.2010 What Can You Do To Help Solve The Crisis In Family Courts?
Special Bulletin by the Leadership Council: What can you do to help solve the crisis in the nation’s family courts? April 14, 2010 According to a conservative estimate by the Leadership Council, each year more than 58,000 children are ordered by family courts into unsupervised contact with physically or sexually abusive parents following divorce in [...]
14.Jul.2010 Children are More at Risk With Single Fathers than Single Mothers
If judges were actually to consider what is the best interest for children, they wouldn’t be taken from their mothers and handed to fathers who seek sole custody (a typical request of abusive fathers, as found by the American Psychological Association’s Presidential Task Force Study on Violence in the Family), especially when mom had been [...]
13.Jul.2010 More on William Bernet’s Dastardly “Warrior Gene” and Junk Science
I am still mulling this over after hearing it on NPR a couple of weeks ago. This author pegged onto what exactly it was that was bothering me, and that is JUNK SCIENCE. Dr. William Bernet of Vanderbilt University specializes in this component, being the proposer to the DSM-V Committee (the psychiatric and psychologist’s diagnosis [...]
