The LEAST WORST INTERESTS of the CHILD
Family courts are supposed to protect the best interests of the child but too often they promote the worst interests of the child.
Should domestic violence affect a father’s visitation?
Should Domestic Violence affect a father’s visitation rights? It should if Family Courts want to protect children from abuse and neglect.
Kaydens Law to fix broken Family Court moves forward
Kaydens Law will fix family courts in Pennsylvania by requiring that the health and safety of children must be the first priority.
Family Court uses the ACE Study to protect a child
Family Court Judge trained in ACE Study Research makes contested custody decision saving a child from an abusive father.
Who are the Domestic Violence Experts?
The 2012 Saunders Study found that Domestic Violence Experts would benefit the family courts. Little has changed since.
The best interests of the child
What is in the best interests of the child? Family Courts make these decisions all the time. How are they doing with children’s lives?
Domestic Violence is a gendered offense
Domestic Violence is a gendered crime and we treat it as such. Some people, mostly men, disagree with our approach. Here is our response.
Crisis in the Family Courts
58,000 children a year are sent for custody or unprotected visitation with dangerous abusers. In 10 years, over 750 were murdered.
The Health and Safety of Children
Naysayers fail to understand how requiring the health and safety of children as first priority fundamentally changes the courts’ response.
Life and death in the Family Courts
Family Courts favor abusers and harm children. Custody courts are mishandling 95% of abuse cases causing suffering and death.
Changing our lives
Mickey Mantle told his fans, “Don’t be like me.”, hoping to change their lives away from the mistakes that were about to cost him his.
Why don’t family courts fix dangerous practices?
The research makes it clear that Family Courts get most domestic violence custody cases wrong and often dangerously wrong. This article explains what may cause courts to tilt in favor of abusive fathers and away from protecting children. We know judges don’t want to hurt children, so why haven’t courts found a way to review their outdated practices and create reforms that focus on keeping children safe and healthy?
Listen to the scientists
Listen to the scientists. Good advice for everyone, especially family court judges responding to domestic violence and child abuse.
What Would Safe Family Courts Look Like?
Imagine what safe family courts would look like if family court administrators updated their practices and made the courts safe for children.
Coronavirus in a domestic violence world
What about the victims of domestic violence who because of coronavirus or COVID19 are sheltering in place with their abuser? And what about their children?
Why do Family Courts repeat their mistakes?
Family courts repeat their mistakes causing 700 children to lose their lives over 10 years. Barry Goldstein shows product recalls protect children better.
Who are the worst domestic violence abusers?
The worst domestic violence abusers believe their partners have no right to leave. These are cases where partners and children like Kayden are killed.
Why Pennsylvania must pass Kayden’s Law now
Kayden’s father killed her to hurt her mother. He said so in a note. A judge gave him enough access to murder her. Kayden’s Law will change that.
Domestic violence, rape and sexual assault
If you are offended by criticism of people who minimize gendered crimes like domestic violence, rape and sexual assault, you’ll not appreciate this article!
Judge orders boy into father’s custody despite sexual abuse
A small boy told authorities that daddy played the “penis game” with him, the judge orders the boy into father’s custody and more sexual abuse.
This boy deserves protection not sexual abuse.
El Nino Sol talks about his father’s Penis Games. We call it child sex abuse. The courts are sending him back to his father. Help us protect him.
Custody Court Crisis: Save my son from his father’s sexual abuse
I was supposed to testify as an expert witness to save a child from “The Penis Game” and a mother from a long prison term for trying to protect him.
Connecticut Legislative Hearing Concerning Parental Alienation Syndrome and Shared Parenting
Evidence provided by Barry Goldstein to the CT hearing. Parental Alienation Syndrome is a debunked theory at the center of the Custody Court Crisis.
What have John Bobbitt’s penis and too many children of divorce got in common?
For children involved in contested custody cases the answer is a lot more than you think. Both stories involve domestic violence and sexual abuse.
Why men abuse women and what makes them stop
Four decades after domestic violence first became a public issue our courts still don’t understand why men abuse women. That’s dangerous for children.
I Lost My Law License Others Lost Their Lives
Custody Court Crisis: Genia Shockome’s custody case should have been the easiest custody case ever. I lost my law license. Others lost their lives.
Warning to Judges, Evaluators, Caseworkers and Legislators
Research shows that child abuse and childhood exposure to domestic violence have life-long negative consequences for kids. But family court judges don’t know this, and until they do children will be harmed
Gold Star Protective Mothers
If the United States were to provide the same financial compensation and respect to protective mothers as it provides to Gold Star military mothers, our family courts would change quickly.
Family Court is Broken. But there’s a wrong way to fix it. Shared parenting.
Everyone agrees that our family courts are broken. But one of the popular proposed remedies will endanger children.
Custody Court Crisis: Courageous kids taken away from safe parents by courts
What happens to kids who are taken away from a safe parent and handed to an abuser because of the Custody Court Crisis? Listen to a courageous kid’s story
