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.
Custody Court Crisis: Family court from a supreme court candidate’s view
Why are custody courts such a mess? What constitutional issues do they raise? Who’s to blame when courts fails to protect the best interests of children?
No Way Out: A months-long investigation into New York’s domestic violence laws
Mothers are sounding alarm about NY domestic violence laws. Far too often violent batterers are awarded child custody with potential deadly consequences.
The Safe Child Act HB 3121 will protect children in Texas
The Safe Child Act HB 3121 will protect children in Texas through prioritising the health and safety of children in Texas’ custody courts.
Custody Court Crisis: How many deaths are caused by Shared Parenting versus Safe Parenting?
The court’s first duty should be a child’s health and safety but they routinely create shared parenting arrangements that put children in danger.
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.
Family Court and the Catholic Church: Shattering the last taboos for institutions that fail our children
Secrecy and lack of accountability. Courts, and the male-dominated church, refuse to believe that a father would abuse his own child.
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.
Traumatic Divorce
No one thinks of divorces as easy or fun, but ones involving domestic violence or drug use are actually traumatic, and a lot more.
How family courts treat abuse and accusations of alienation
When custody courts deal with allegations of abuse and parental alienation they make dangerous decisions most of the time.
Gendered offenses are different from other offenses. Don’t accept the trauma excuse
Trauma is responsible for a lot of bad behavior. But it is not an excuse, particularly for gendered violence and abuse. This is an important distinction.
The Next Sex Scandals Will be Even Worse: We Must Protect Our Children
It feels like we have been inundated with a variety of sex scandals that seemed to start with Harvey Weinstein. The responses vary depending on political or financial interests and ignorance about sexism and misogyny. I can understand how many people might seek to...
Learn about fixing the family court crisis
DV expert Barry Goldstein and Stop Abuse Campaign’s Andrew Willis discuss how fixing the family court means protecting children not abusers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
Parental Alienation Syndrome for Good Judges
Judges who believe that Parental Alienation Syndrome is a serious issue that harms children are not looking at the research.
Court Gave Joaquin Rams Access to Kill Fifteen-Month-Old Prince McLeod Rams
The man who murdered Prince McLeod Rams was convicted of domestic violence but the courts gave him access to his son.
Unintended Consequences of Supporting Child Sexual Abuse
The Catholic Church considers abortion an abomination. So why do they spend millions of dollars fighting something that would prevent abortion?
