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The only way children benefit from relationships with abusers is if they stop!
Every year 58,000 children are sent for custody or unprotected visitation with dangerous abusers.
Most child custody cases involve two safe parents who would not hurt their children.
"Most domestic violence custody cases involve parents who have no severe mental health problem that would make them unfit parents."
Scientific research is now clear. Custody courts do well in cases involving two safe parents, but are getting a high percentage of domestic violence and child abuse cases wrong.
What Judges Don’t Know Hurts Children
A Rare Victory for Children Exposes Why Family Courts Usually Fail Abuse Victims
Lebron James was criticized on a local sports talk station for using offensive words based on a stereotype about an ethnic group.
Upon studying the personal records and interviewing the patients who left, Dr. Vincent Felitti came to understand that rather than a problem, the patients had viewed their excessive weight as a protective factor.
Dirty Little Secret: Courts Ignore Most Dangerous Risk
Courts cannot save children if they are unaware that standard court practices routinely place children in jeopardy.
Good Advice for Conronavirus and for Judges
One of the best decisions I ever made occurred at the start of my work in the domestic violence movement.
The ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) research is a group of studies sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control that establish that children exposed to domestic violence, child abuse and other traumas will suffer more injuries and illnesses throughout their lives and have shorter life expectancies.
Every day I hear horrific stories of courts using deeply flawed and outdated practices that ruin the lives of protective mothers and their children.
The Only Outcome Family Courts Will Consider
So how can the custody court system allow a sexist theory concocted not from any research but...
Family courts have a long history of focusing their attention on reunifying families.
No Big Deal in Our Country Domestic Violence, Rape and Sexual Assault
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