Rules Children Can Live With: children shouldn’t risk their lives to attend church.
Like many mass murderers with a record of domestic violence, Devin Kelley was given leniency instead of strict accountability and monitoring.
What Doesn’t Kill Me: A Film Expose on Domestic Violence and Court Revictimization
An interview with the director of the upcoming documentary What Doesn’t Kill Me, about family court-ordered abuse
What Must Family Court Judges Know About Domestic Violence and child abuse
Courts can now access scientific research from highly credible sources that can be used to recognize domestic violence and child abuse.
Family Courts Need Multi-Disciplinary Responses
Domestic violence experts provide objective information that can save children. Courts must embrace them or continue to destroy children’s lives.
Widely anticipated article confirms court mistreatment of protective mothers
Professor Meier has just released a long-awaited article describing the findings of a pilot study showing court mistreatment of protective mothers.
Custody court crisis: Courts decisions proved dangerous by Meier Study
New DOJ research shows family courts across the US are more worried about upsetting abusive fathers than they are about protecting vulnerable children.
Grace’s story. Losing Grace
Losing Grace taught me how it feels when your child or grandchild is taken from you and handed to her abuser. I will never forget her face.
Why Aren’t We Listening?
The system that is designed to listen to children when claims of abuse are brought forth is failing the children it should protect.
Do Not Suffer In Silence #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou
Amber, a student at Indiana University South Bend, writes about her research into emotional abuse and the #maybehedoesnthityou hashtag
He never hit me
If he hit me I would leave. The truth is I still wouldn’t have left then. I would rationalize that hitting me would show him how out of hand things were.
I want a divorce
I want a divorce. These four words would forever change my life. I blurted them out without even hesitating as I sat in the car.
The facts behind missing children like Krystal Alvarez
Discover the facts behind missing children and the scary stories that we hear. How do you protect your child?
When custody courts hurt children
Custody courts, like doctors, should commit to do no harm. Courts should not hurt children; but there is overwhelming evidence they often do.
Worst. Judges. Ever.
Family court has given rise to some of the worst judges imaginable.
“General Practitioners” for Domestic Violence Cases
Custody courts are to Domestic Violence what General Practitioners are to cancer. Informed but not experts. They miss true reports of abuse.
Quincy Solution to Haskell Murder
The Haskell murder, in which a man killed his entire family except for one girl who could flee and call the police, is all the more tragic because we know how to prevent it.
Custody Court Crisis: Another child. Another Mother. Another Tragedy
Experts know that batterers use children to further abuse their partners and that abusers sometimes murder their children.
Boston Globe: Custody Court Crisis
The Boston Globe examines the custody court crisis. Judges and legislators should do the same before more children are harmed
Running away from home and then returned to their abuser
A child runs away from home as a cry for help or a desperate act to protect themselves from abuse. Why do we punish kids for it?
Connecticut Task Force Concerning Minors Exposed to Domestic Violence
Connecticut established a task force to study minors exposed to domestic violence. Better idea, let’s stop domestic violence.
What Judge Gorcyca taught us about the “success” of forced reunification
Judge Gorcyca sent a 9, 10 and 13 year old to juvenile detention after they refused to meet their father. A lesson in the ‘success’ of forced reunification.
How Do We Stop Domestic Violence?
How do we stop domestic violence? Read Barry Goldstein’s recently released new book: Domestic Violence, Abuse, and Child Custody Vol. II.
How Mothers are Destroyed…
Family court systematically destroys good mothers who are battered by their partners or protecting abused children by placing the children in the hands of the abuser
How Can Courts Give More Influence to a Pro Pedophile Theory than Scientific Research?
New research from the DOJ found the courts give more importance to discredited alienation theory than domestic violence or child abuse,
When a Parent Does More Harm than Good
The research proves that estrangement from an abusive parent is better for children than being abused. Family courts tend to get that wrong, which is why kids tend to get hurt.
What would you tell family court officials?
Here’s what we said in our letter to the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges about custody court reform.
Risky practices baked into Family Court procedures
When judges are doing everything as they’re supposed to, they still harm kids. That’s a problem, but there are solutions. Why aren’t we using them?
Practical Solution To Reduction In Life Expectancy
Research released by the National Center for Health Statistics found life expectancy dropped from 78.9 to 78.8 years in 2015.
Shared parenting. What does it have to do with Domestic Violence?
Shared parenting is promoted as the ideal situation for divorced parents, under the right conditions it might be, but it is an abuser’s best friend.
Prosecuted But Not Silenced. Book Review
A review of Maralee McLean’s book “Prosecuted but not Silenced” that illustrates how America’s family courts typically harm children and good mothers
