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NEW: SOUND RESEARCH? Maybe not in custody science.
THE CASE FOR ABOLISHING CUSTODY EVALUATORS By Margaret Dore.
GUARDIANS AD LITEM IN CUSTODY LITIGATION By Richard Ducote.
NEW: REEVALUATING THE EVALUATORS By liz In Their Own Words
JOINT CUSTODY RESEARCH, ISSUES, FAMILY LAW, flawed science and policy
THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS
THOSE JOINT CUSTODY STUDIES Debunked. AND MORE!!!
JOINT CUSTODY DOES NOT WORK Research from the CA Judicial Council.
NEW: RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL IN PARENTING PLANS When it works, when it doesn't.
NEW: SHARED PARENTING ADVOCATES DISTORT THE FACTS (And the law.)
BAUSERMAN ON JOINT CUSTODY Rind study co-author does another.
MICHAEL LAMB AND JOAN KELLY Infant custody nonsense.
JOINT CUSTODY The opinion of a noncustodial father.
MORE "FATHERLESSNESS" PROPAGANDA The AAML and the CRC.
CHANGING CUSTODY IN THE TEEN YEARS A bad idea.
POST-DIVORCE MOVEAWAYS, relocation law cases, research, policy, shared parenting fallacies
BRAVER'S ACTUAL FINDINGS Surprise! Kids are fine -- with their mothers.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS BY JUDITH WALLERSTEIN, Ph.D.
LaMUSGA v. LaMUSGA (California) INFORMATION PAGE
THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO TRAVEL
...ABOUT MOTHERHOOD What the research really says.
...ABOUT FATHERHOOD What the research really says.
...IN FATHERHOOD PROMOTION Wade's World.
...ABOUT STEPMOTHERS and MOTHER ABSENCE Not such great news.
DON'T MISS: CHILD CUSTODY EVALUATIONS: LIMITED SCIENCE, FLAWED SYSTEM
...ABOUT PARENTING AND CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT
...ABOUT WHY PEOPLE DIVORCE (And why women file more often.)
THE FATHERS' RIGHTS MOVEMENT fathers, fathers, all about fathers rights
IN THEIR OWN WORDS The infamous "Pig Page."
MORE OF THEIR OWN WORDS and NEW: RACHEL ALEXANDER on father custody.
NATIONAL FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE New name, same stink.
DECONSTRUCTING FATHERHOOD PROPAGANDA Wade Horn drivel.
DECONSTRUCTING THE DECONSTRUCTING liz on Silverstein & Auerbach.
THE CHILDREN'S RIGHTS COUNCIL - It's about father's rights, not children's wellbeing
STALKING THROUGH THE COURTS An FR insider's exposé.
WAR OF THE WOUNDS What's wrong with the father's rights movement.
TRISH WILSON'S ARTICLES Exposing "father's rights."
WARREN FARRELL AND "FAMILY SEX"
WARREN FARRELLSAID... WHAT!? WHAT?!!!!
WARREN FARRELL AND LIBEL The chutzpah of male power.
WARREN FARRELL'S NCP HOLIDAY PARENTING Learn stalking.
"THE CASE FOR FATHER CUSTODY" An FR activist debates liz.
READ: FATHER'S RIGHTS POLITICS By Mandy Dunn
"GUERILLA WARFARE" Or gorilla warfare?
MOTHERHOOD, LAW, AND PUBLIC POLICY mental health
EFFECTS OF PREGNANCY It's not just an "inconvenience."
AGENDA: RECONCILING MARRIAGE, MOTHERHOOD, AND FEMINISM
FEMINISTS ON ALIMONY Don't blame feminists for its demise. Rethinking alimony policy
WHAT IS "ATTACHMENT?" Challenges, issues. Bonding, attachment, research
WHAT IS A "PRIMARY PARENT?" Well, if you have to ask...
PRIMARY PARENTS Why they are, and will remain, mostly mothers.
LIZ RESPONDS TO "BE THANKFUL FOR DADS" Whose Dads?
WHEN "EQUAL" ISN'T. Gender-blind, gender-neutral inequality.
MALE BASHING? Hardly. A brief review of modern family law politics.
N.O.W. Getting it right on the father's rights movement. feminist divorce policy
ABOUT BIAS Bad thinking and bad science in child custody policy.
WITCH CRAZE TIMELINE Religion is deadly as secular law.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND CHILD ABUSE
CHILD ABUSE Articles and information that cut through the slop.
NCJFCJ JUDGES' GUIDE TO CUSTODY EVALS IN CASES WITH ABUSE...
ESSENTIAL INFORMATION: BATTERED MOTHERS CUSTODY CONFERENCE
JOAN ZORZA'S CRITIQUE OF PRIOR NCJFCJ JUDGES' GUIDE
JOAN ZORZA'S WEBPAGES; also see MARGARET DORE on friendly parent provisions
MOTHERS LOSING CUSTODY TO ABUSIVE FATHERS
SEE: DV AND CUSTODY: UNDERSTANDING JUDICIAL RESISTANCE By Prof. Joan Meier.
ABUSIVE MEN AND CUSTODY What's fair to children. research on child abuse
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY Annotated reading list.
MATERNAL ALIENATION By Anne Morris
WIFE BEATING It's not just "domestic violence." intimate partner violence
YOUNG WOMEN'S VIOLENCE Myths and facts. intimate partner violence
THE INFLUENCE OF UNDERWAGER Religion as sexual paraphilia?
UNDERWAGER HEARD FROM AGAIN Complaints and threats.
ON GUN CONTROL The wisdom of Gina Guest. MORE FROM GINA...
PARENTAL ALIENATION THEORY bad science, fatherhood exaltation
GETTING IT WRONG IN CHILD CUSTODY CASES Prof. Bruch's definitive article.
NEW: JENNIFER HOULT'S ANALYSIS (Are the pro-PAS folks stupid? or just opportunistic liars?)
NEW: THE FRIENDLY PARENT CONCEPT A flawed factor for child custody. By M. Dore
PARENTAL ALIENATION SYNDROME: DANGEROUS AURA OF RELIABILITY By C. L. Wood.
PARENTAL ALIENATION SYNDROME What's this doing in a court of law?
RICHARD GARDNER: A SELF-MADE MAN Very creative therapeutics.
COMPULSIVE TREE PLANTING SYNDROME? liz to Gardner. bias
PARENTAL ALIENATION "SYNDROME" Prof. Myers on "PAS."
NEW: RUEDA'S 2004 INTER-RATER RELIABILITY STUDY Beyond even bad science. the religion of fatherhood
FULSOME FATHER SYNDROME Like Malicious Mother Syndrome, but better.
DIVORCE POISON Cheryl Metellus on Warshak on PAS.
LETTER TO RICHARD GARDNER By Karen Anderson.
"BUT I'VE SEEN IT!" NO, YOU HAVEN'T. There's no such thing.religion of fatherhood
FAMILY COURT ISSUES, ACTIVISTS
Divorce reform
OUTRAGES Naming names. parenting coordination, custody evaluation, therapeutic jurisprudence
RUN MOMMY RUN! By Talia Carner, author of Puppet Child.
SMEAR CAMPAIGN A psychologist versus CA lawyer Robin Yeamans.
2001 JUDICIAL BLUNDER OF THE YEAR AWARD (To put it politely.) feminist research
IS COLLABORATIVE LAW A GOOD IDEA? Maybe. Ask liz...
BAD: ADMITTING SUPERVISED VISITATION RECORDS IN COURT
Time to get educated. We must change family laws and divorce policies that benefit fathers, mental health practitioners, custody evaluators, guardians ad litem, lawyers, judges, therapists, and others, while doing nothing to benefit children or women, child welfare, children's education, or the next generation.
Less than a generation ago, married women in some U.S. states did not have the right to manage their own property, and all household property was deemed to belong to the husband upon divorce. More recently, it remained legal in some states for a husband to rape his wife. (Marital rape is still legal today in nearly every country in the world that bans abortion.)
In 1981, the Federal Work Incentive Program, three out of four of whose participants were women, was required by law to give jobs preference to men, who also received jobs paying an average of 34% more per hour.
Husbands by law routinely were defined as "head of the household."
Hundreds of laws overtly discriminated against women, and thousands of laws discriminated in effect.Think by now it's all been "fixed?" Think again. -- liz
