PSYCHOLOGY IN THE COURTROOM

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:  RE-EVALUATING THE CUSTODY EVALUATORS  By liz.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS   MORE:  THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE INDEX

COMING SOON:  WHAT'S WRONG WITH PARENTING COORDINATION?

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!!!

ATTACHMENT RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY

MICHAEL LAMB AND JOAN KELLY   Infant custody nonsense.

JOINT CUSTODY DOES NOT WORK  Research from the CA Judicial Council.

SHARED PARENTING ADVOCATES DISTORT THE FACTS   (And the law.)

OVERBLOWING THE CHILD SUGGESTIBILITY RESEARCH   The "extremists" are the naysayers.

BAUSERMAN ON JOINT CUSTODY  Rind study co-author does another.

NEW:  RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL IN PARENTING PLANS   When it works, when it doesn't.

JOINT CUSTODY  The opinion of a noncustodial father... and of a CUSTODIAL FATHER

MORE "FATHERLESSNESS" PROPAGANDA  The AAML and the CRC.

CHANGING CUSTODY IN THE TEEN YEARS  A bad idea.

POST-DIVORCE MOVEAWAYS

NEW:  POLICY CONSIDERATIONS  By Scott Altman.

LaMUSGA v. LaMUSGA (California) INFORMATION PAGE

THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO TRAVEL  By DiAnn Lindquist.

BRAVER'S ACTUAL FINDINGS   Surprise! Kids are fine -- with their mothers.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS BY JUDITH WALLERSTEIN, Ph.D., relocation law cases, research

RESEARCH MYTHS AND FACTS

...ABOUT MOTHERHOOD   What the research really says.

...ABOUT FATHERHOOD   What the research really says.

...IN FATHERHOOD PROMOTION   What the research really says. 

...ABOUT STEPMOTHERS and MOTHER ABSENCE   Not such great news.

...IN FAMILY COURT and ADR   Forensic failings, systemic fallacies.

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   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 FR 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.

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.

NEW:  WILL HE KILL?   How judges can assess risk.

NCJFCJ JUDGES' GUIDE TO CUSTODY EVALS IN CASES WITH ABUSE

JOAN ZORZA CRITIQUE OF PRIOR  NCJFCJ GUIDE

BATTERED MOTHERS CUSTODY CONFERENCE

MATERNAL ALIENATION  By Anne Morris.

MARGARET DORE on friendly parent provisions.

MOTHERS LOSING CUSTODY TO ABUSIVE FATHERS

COERCIVE-CONTROL  By Dr. Evan Stark.

ABUSIVE MEN AND CUSTODY   What's fair to children. research on child abuse

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY  Annotated reading list.

UNDERSTANDING JUDICIAL RESISTANCE  By Prof. Joan Meier.

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:  NAT'L COUNCIL OF JUVENILE & FAMILY COURT JUDGES: IT'S NOT PAS

JENNIFER HOULT'S ANALYSIS   and... NEW:  EVALUATORS the PAS Networks.

THE FRIENDLY PARENT CONCEPT   A flawed factor for child custody.  By M.  Dore

PARENTAL ALIENATION SYNDROME: DANGEROUS AURA OF RELIABILITY  By C. L. Wood.

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   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

parenting coordination, custody evaluation

FAMILY COURT ISSUES, ACTIVISTS Divorce reform

OUTRAGES  Naming names.    IN THE NEWS  Drops in the bucket.

ADVOCATES FOR NATIONAL GUARDIANSHIP ETHICS AND REFORM

NOW REPORT ON THE COURTS

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.) research

IS COLLABORATIVE LAW A GOOD IDEA?  Questions raised...

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