Domestic Violence Experts
Family Courts Need Domestic Violence Experts
Are Children Being Heard, Believed and Protected by Family Court Professionals?
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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.
The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges seeks to train other judges about important scientific research like ACE (adverse childhood experiences) and Saunders.
During our training to teach batterer classes, we often discussed the fact that much domestic violence is counterintuitive.
What Judges Don’t Know Hurts Children
A Rare Victory for Children Exposes Why Family Courts Usually Fail Abuse Victims
A Closer Look at the Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Case
Safe Primary Attachment Figures vs. Abusers with “Rights”
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
Most family court custody cases are settled amicably. It’s only about 3.8% of cases that require trial and often much more.
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