Archive for the "Children and Domestic Violence" Category

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 [...]

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) — [...]

More Mothers are Suing Due to Fathers Killing Children

I saw this on Dastardly Dads yesterday and thought it was worth a reprint here.  More mothers are seeking legal relief by suing now, unfortunately more often after their children have been killed.  (Note in the background story how the murderer again is described as “such a nice guy”). Mother of Michigan boy slain by [...]

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 Joe Torre: Safe at Home

Joe Torre (pronounced /ˈtɔri/)  is the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers and a former Major League Baseball player. A nine-time All-Star, he played for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, New York Mets, and the St. Louis Cardinals. After his retirement as a player, he later managed all three teams. He really became an all-star in my [...]

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 [...]

21.Jun.2010 Why Does President Barack Obama Ignore Mothers?

Okay, given he gave a big bash for fathers last year (with the rollout for the Fatherhood Initiative Bill) and nothing for mothers, I was hoping he’d show a little more respect for us this year.  But no.  Another rollout of Father Worship is on it’s way.  Apparently he could have cared less that there [...]

19.Jun.2010 Grab Your Torches and Pitchforks: The “Parental Alienation Syndrome” Court Whores are Coming to New York

The Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome Joseph Goldberg, well known to the Florida Better Business Bureau as a scam artist, and possibly is a fugitive because of the $86,000 he allegedly owes in child support, is holding one of those court whore conventions again.  This time it will be in New York City.  As [...]

13.Jun.2010 Video from the Silent Vigil on Mother’s Day at the White House

Someone had shot this video (I am sorry I don’t know who…please comment if you did) and posted it on YouTube. It is a segment when Mildred Muhammad, the ex-wife of the D.C. sniper, was speaking to the crowd. Enjoy…

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