Do You Know Your AFCC? YOU SHOULD!  

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Do You Know Your AFCC? YOU SHOULD!

 activism  corruption, court whores, family court corruption, father rights, pedophiles, protective parent, sexual abuse

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http://www.afccnet.org/about/history.asp

by Randi James & Liz Richards

Do You Know Your AFCC? You Should

(emphasis mine)

AFCC: Association of Family and Conciliation Courts

“AFCC is the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts – an interdisciplinary and international association of professionals dedicated to the resolution of family conflict.”

Read about Meyer Elkin’s role in the AFCC is discussed toward the bottom of their site [AFCC: History page].

Completely omitted from this AFCC history is the very relevant fact that Meyer Elkin also co-founded in 1985, the leading fathers rights group – Children’s Rights Council. Study these people and their site carefully because it is the “blueprint” of how the courts are organized to rig cases for their paid-up allies. Nobody has to slip an envelope full of cash into the pocket of a co-conspirators to rig court cases for these people. It is all done for them by the government. They get their bribes paid for them !

The AFCC never mentions the multiple cross-affiliations between AFCC officials and the fathers rights group including Children’s Rights Council (CRC), founded by David Levy in 1985, along with several other key AFCC people. While this vital fact is no where to be found on any of their recent literature, it did appear in the early (pre-Interent) CRC hardcopy newsletters, which NAFCJ possesses, and uses to discredit this group and the judges who collude with them. Also in these older CRC newsletters was discussion of grants they received from HHS and the people who worked with them on those grants – people like incest promoters Richard Gardner and Warren Farrell. CRC allies were put into high-level HHS-ACF position such David Gray Ross, as Commission for Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) -starting in 1993 through approx 1999. Ross was a Maryland Judge, who people who knew him say was a dead-beat dad himself. He spent his time as OCSE commissioner instituting regulations, programs and policies favorable to fathers and CRC. He essentially set up OCSE to be a fathers rights child support avoidance and custody switching agency. This perversion of OCSE’s agency’s original legislative mission continues to-date. This is the reason why so many custodial mothers can’t collect on their child support arrears, while non-custodial mothers are hounded incessantly and even jailed for support obligations assessed beyond standard guide-lines and beyond their ability to pay. Other evidence taken from HHS Inspector General Web site reveals even worse corruption at HHS-ACF/OCSE.

The AFCC claims their focus is on training judges, custody evaluators and mediators about custody and divorce issues. But in reality they are a father focused organization and promoting alienation theories to explain away family violence by men. In reality they act as a “clearinghouse” for organized case rigging. They hold conferences about parental alienation but never mention the many professional experts who have condemned it as harmful to children or the link to incest promoter Richard Gardner. Their scheme involves “recruiting” male litigants through fathers groups and federal HHS programs managed by the local child support agencies for program “services” which are ostensibly for helping non-custodial fathers get their visitation rights so they would have less incentive to default on child support obligations. Instead the fathers get deals to have their support obligations closed and sent to a program paid attorney to litigant for custody. The judge hearing these cases proves payments to the court-colluding fathers attorney and other supposedly “neutral” court evaluators. None of this is disclosed to the targeted female litigant who sometimes is also ordered to pay the fees of these court professionals (e.g. illegal double billing). The father is encouraged to file repeated motions (usually on frivolous claims of visitation denial or alienation) so the co-conspiring court professionals can get a steady stream of government payments. It appears the judge handling these cases gets a kickback from those being paid (with his approval) based on a few exposed examples. This is what keeps their litigation game going and going. They label it high-conflict bitter custody litigation to hide their own fraud. They blame the mother for everything and keep her away from her children so she will be desperate to go back to court and get a chance to convince them of the truth (which of course they already know, and are exploiting perversely against her).

Basic Judicial ethics prohibits judges from belonging to organizations with people who appear before them in the court cases. However, this doesn’t stop the crooked AFCC affiliated judges from appointing Guardian at Litem (child’s attorneys) or court psychological evaluators who are AFCC members to the same cases which the AFCC member judge is handling. Also the AFCC conducts joint conferences with the CRC – fathers rights group – usually on the subject of Parental Alienation – which they all know has been discredited as being not a valid method for use in court evaluations.

Other people on AFCC’s Board of Directors are many people closely associated with the Children’s Rights Council. Their favorite researcher — Sanford L. Braver, Ph.D. — was a recipient of a $10M federal grant. Braver, found, astoundingly, as a result of his study that after divorce, women do as well financially as men! Bradford and many other purported “neutral” expert evaluators all work in concert behind the scenes to issue rubber-stamp anti-woman, pro-abusive father evaluations for the primary intent of deliberately covering up for abusive fathers (as a protection racket fueled by federal program graft).

Another AFCC founding official is Jessica Pearson, President of Center for Policy Research of Denver, Colorado, which is a primary consultant to the Department of Health and Human Services – Administration for Children & Families (HHS-ACF) which includes OCSE. Pearson/AFCC have been using ther influence for many years to create pro-father programs and protocols which are steered to the pro-father court professionals who train others in the anti-mother evaluation tactics such as PAS. She has been a frequent speaker at CRC and AFCC conferences and works closely with other fathers rights collaborators to promote PAS in government programs.

The AFCC has many state chapters which conduct conferences, seminars and workshops on their “latest” practices for handling divorce, custody and related family & children litigation. Most of the identified AFCC professional members routinely practice anti-woman, pro-abuser father PAS tactics against mothers who complain of child abuse by the father. Most have a documented history of rubber-stamping every mother as an mentally unstable alienator who is the cause of all the problem and unfit to be around her children. Of course, they know the truth of what they are really doing – is to trump up reasons to make the mother look bad so they can justify recommending sole custody a father accused of domestic violence, child abuse or support delinquencies. This tactic actually works well for them, because so many people are inclined to believe that women can’t take the pressure of martial break-up they “go-crazy”, imagine or even fabricate problems in their attempt to “get-back’ at him. These tactics are effective against even professional and prominent women. The commonly heard “bitter custody dispute” really means: “crazy lying accusatory woman” who drives the man to violence out of shear frustration (lets call this the Alec Baldwin excuse)…
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Please read more here.

I know its a bit overwhelming if you are new to this game…just try to put the puzzle pieces together…take things one step at a time.

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PSYCHOLOGY IN THE COURTROOM download articles  

Posted by Claudine Dombrowski

PSYCHOLOGY IN THE
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Children Need. . . THIS? Research on custody evaluation practices and therapeutic jurisprudence in the family courts..
CUSTODY EVALUATORS
AND  PARENTING COORDINATORS
IN THEIR OWN WORDS

For articles on family law issues, and the "myths and facts" research citation pages on fatherhood, motherhood, domestic violence, post-divorce relocation, child custody, attachment, and child development research, and related issues, see LIZNOTES or The Liz Library SITE INDEX.


therapeutic jurisprudence and forensic psychology researchPlease note that the inclusion of any individual on the below list does not necessarily indicate the existence of any licensing or other violation, but only that we obtained or have been made aware of information of interest relevant to the subject matter of child custody evaluations or other issues bearing upon mental health practitioners and the functioning of the family court system.

Similarly, no positive inference should be drawn from the omission of any individual from these pages; we have information on hundreds more that will be added. These webpages are being continually up-dated, but the work is time-consuming.

To check the licensing status of any mental health professional and see whether complaints or disciplinary actions have been filed, see the applicable state licensing boards, linked below. More listings of psychology licensing boards are at Ken Pope's website.

If you have custody evaluations (for the custody evaluation study), or other information pertinent to custody evaluators, forensic psychological witnesses, parenting coordinators, psychologist mediators, supervised visitation centers, guardians ad litem, or court-appointed therapists that you wish to share with us, or if you dispute or wish to supplement any information whatsoever on these pages, please email Sarah at thelizlibrary.org . We are committed to accuracy and not only welcome but want your input.


Alabama Licensing


Alaska Licensing


Arkansas Licensing


Arizona Licensing Information


California Licensing Information

William Hamilton Ayres (N) * Sidney Brown, Ph.D.* Stephen Doyne, Ph.D.(more) (more) (more) * Michael Dufficy * Judith B. Henderson, Ph.D.*Michael Jones, Ph.D. * Larry Leatham, Ph.D. * Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D. * Jayne A. Major, Ph.D. * Andrew McGarity, Ph.D.* Randy Rand, Ed.D. *Donald K. Smith, Ph.D (more). * Philip M. Stahl, Ph.D. * John Spencer Stone, Ph.D. * Matthew Sullivan, Ph.D. * Richard J. Swank, Ph.D. *

(N) not a psychologist


CANADA Licensing

Donald Dutton, Ph.D. (more) (more) (and yet more) *


Colorado Licensing Know Your Courts

William G. Austin, Ph.D. * Marlene Bizub (N) * Mark Hoffman (N) * Robert McIntyre, Ph.D. * Elizabeth A. Paterson, Ph.D. *

(N) not a psychologist


Connecticut Licensing Information Supplement

Diane Rotnem, Ph.D. (N) * Daniel R. Snyder, Ph.D.

(N) not a psychologist


Delaware Licensing


District of Columbia Licensing


Florida Licensing

Michael Alan Baer, Ph.D. * Soren James Barret, Ph.D. * Dalia Saffa Biller, Ph.D. * Holly Bodner, Psy.D. * J. Michael Bone (N) (more) (more) * Sheri Bourg-Carter, Ph.D. * Barry Brody, Ph.D. * Glen Ross Caddy, Ph.D. * Debra Kaye Carter, Ph.D. * Michael F. Cohen, Ph.D. * Deborah Day, Ph.D. *Robert A. Evans, Ph.D. * Emanuel John Falcone, M.D. (N) * Jan Faust, Ph.D.* Bruce D. Foreman, Ph.D. * Alexander Gimon, Ph.D. * Darby L. Godwin, Ph.D. * Paul John Hartmann, M.D. (N) * Philip Heller, Ph.D. (more) * Michael Hershorn, Ph.D. * Richard B. Hey, Ph.D. (N) * Michael Anthony Holder (N) *Paul M. Inkeles, Ph.D. * Martha Jacobson, Ph.D. * Harry D. Krop, Ph.D. * Kathryn Kuehnle, Ph.D. * Maritza Lima, Ph.D. * Marcia B. Leder, Ph.D. *David A. Martindale, Ph.D. * Douglas Joseph Mason, Ph.D. * Robert Pensa, Ph.D. * Johann N. Pruett, Ph.D. * Sohail Punjwani, M.D. (N) * Thomas Saunders, Ph.D. (N) * Scott Roseman, Ph.D. * S. Richard Sauber, Ph.D. *Peter D. Schulman, Ph.D. * Martin David Segel, Ph.D. * Linda Sherby, Ph.D.* Leonard J. Skizynski, Psy.D. * Sohail Punjwani, M.D. (N) * Barbara F. Steinberg, Ph.D. * Henry Tenenbaum, Ph.D. * Michael Walczak, Ph.D. *Bambi L. Wadleton, Ph.D. * Evan J. Zimmer, M.D. (N)

(N) not a psychologist

Michael Anthony Holder Michael Holder Dynamic Parenting Course therapist charged with domestic violence including strangulation of his stepson


Georgia Licensing

Charles B. Nemeroff, M.D. (N)

(N) not a psychologist


Hawaii Licensing

Sherri Fisher, M.A. (N)

(N) not a psychologist


Idaho Licensing

Nicole R. Hill (N) *

(N) not a psychologist


Illinois Licensing Verification Lake County

Roger Hatcher, Ph.D. *


Indiana Licensing Verification Information

Jerome A. Cerny, Ph.D. * Susan Dwyer, Ph.D. (more) * Michael R. Sheehan, Ph.D. * Susan E. Spencer, Ph.D.*


Iowa Licensing Verification

Howard Weinberg, Ph.D.


Kansas Licensing

Timothy P. Gatschet, M.D. (N) *

(N) not a psychologist


Kentucky Licensing

Michael G. Borack, Psy.D. *


Louisiana Licensing


Maine Licensing


Maryland Licensing

Robert J. Snow, Ph.D. * Sandra B. Snow, Ph.D. * The Rachel Foundation (N)

(N) not a psychologist


Massachusetts Licensing

Joseph J. Plaud, Ph.D.


Michigan Licensing Information

Charles M. Cutler, Ph.D. * Beth M. Erickson, Ph.D


Minnesota Licensing


Mississippi Licensing


Missouri Licensing


Montana Licensing


Nebraska Licensing


Nevada Licensing


New Hampshire Licensing JointCustodyFoo

Lawrence M. Kelly, Ed.D. *


New Jersey Licensing

David A. Martindale, Ph.D. *


New Mexico Licensing


New York Licensing

Raj A. Danthuluri, M.D. (N) * Jennifer Flynn-Campbell, Ph.D. * Michael Miran, Ph.D. *

(N) not a psychologist


North Carolina Licensing

Jonathan W. Gould, Ph.D. * Johnny E. Clevinger (L) *

(L) school psych, not a licensed psychologist (apparently)


North Dakota Licensing

Joseph Belanger *


Ohio Licensing

Douglas Darnall, Ph.D. * Michael G. Borack, Psy.D. *


Oklahoma Licensing


Oregon Licensing

Zvi Strassberg, Ph.D. *


Pennsylvania Licensing

Dan Egli, Ph.D. * Jerry Lazaroff, Ph.D. * Timothy E. Ring, Ed.D.


Rhode Island Licensing Information Supplement Supplement2

Lori Meyerson, Ph.D. *


South Carolina Licensing


South Dakota Licensing


Tennessee Licensing


Texas Licensing

Jack Ferrel, Ph.D. * Pamela Stuart-Mills Hoch (N) * Robert Hoch (N) * Gail Inman (N) * William Robert Olmsted, M.D. (N) * Mark Otis, Ph.D. * The Rachel Foundation (N) * Richard A. Warshak, Ph.D. * John A. Zervopoulos, Ph.D. *

(N) not a psychologist


Utah Licensing


Vermont Licensing Other


Virginia Licensing Information

Barbara F. Steinberg, Ph.D. *


Washington Licensing

Stuart A. Greenberg, Ph.D. *


West Virginia Licensing


Wisconsin Licensing

Ze'ev Bar-av, Ph.D.


Wyoming Licensing


ABOUT THOSE PSYCH TESTS:
Attention psychs: it's simple. Plan on releasing every bit of material related to the friggin' tests -- or don't use them for "expert witness" work. Arguments made by custody evaluators for not turning over test records and data, and why those arguments are wrong.

Everyone else -- judges, lawyers, litigants: watch this space for more info on how to deal with psych testing in court, as well as information about the specific tests. Coming soon, an educational critique of the MMPI, including a question by question analysis with suggested answers, to illustrate why none of this precious nonsense ever should be used by parenting evaluators. It's time to throw a little sunlight and free speech on the alchemy and pseudo-science. It's time to forbid psychs from administering any of these tests in connection with child custody proceedings.

Arguments made by custody evaluators for not turning over test records and data, and why those arguments are wrong

therapeutic jurisprudence - custody evaluators - guardians ad litem

There is no science involved in child custody evaluations or therapeutic jurisprudence

PSYCHOLOGY IN THE
COURTROOM
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Emery, Otto & Donohue: Child Custody Law - Limited Science and a Flawed System

Dore: Friendly Parent Concept, A Flawed Factor

Ducote: Guardians ad Litem in Custody Litigation

Bruch: Sound Research or Wishful Thinking?

Kelly & Ramsey: Child Custody Evaluations: the need for systems level outcome assessments (2009)

Dineen: Psychologists and Custody Evaluation Reports - Illusions of Expertise, Ethics and Objectivity

Dawes: House of Cards - Psychology & Psychotherapy Built on Myth

Parenting Coordination
Parenting Coordinator Issues

Emily Buss on children's associational rights

Claudia Rowe on parenting evaluator ethics

Child Custody Consulting in a Consorting Camarilla

Information on these webpages is from ongoing research being conducted by the National Network on Family Law Policy, and by numerous scholars, professionals, and others around the United States who are investigating the workings of our justice system. For more information, contact Sarah "at" thelizlibrary.org.

Kates: Reevaluating the Evaluators - Rethinking the Assumptions

Custody Evaluator Quotes

Child custody evaluator repeats the same language and findings in multiple custody evaluation reports

Norm Pattis on therapeutic jurisprudence

PARENTAL ALIENATION
SYNDROME

Bruch: Getting it Wrong in Child Custody Cases

Nat'l Council Juv & Fam Ct Judges: It's Not PAS

Wood: PAS - Dangerous Aura of Reliability

Poliacoff: What's this doing in a court of law?

Bad Science: 2004 Inter-rater Reliability Study

"But I've Seen It!!"  (Yes, and you've seen the sun "rise" too)

AZCADV: Battered Mothers Testimony Project Report

Richard Warshak - Catherine Collins

Center for Judicial Excellence - video

The Drugging of America's Youth

Child Protective Services Out of Control

Federal incentives to remove children to facilitate fast-track adoptions. It's not the money per se; it's the unintended consequences of "therapeutic jurisprudence". Once do-gooder ideas and helper agencies and bureaucracies are put into place, they self-perpetuate for their own preservation, budgets and growth.

See videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=jAnjp7OnxNM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=ZHw_kbsAZ6A&feature=related

therapeutic jurisprudence - elder abuse or slavery - stealing money via guardianships

Joseph Goldberg and the network of PAS cross-referral relationships

PAS debunked in Australia; psych Wrigley disciplined for incompetent behavior

Courageous Kids NetworkWomen's Justice Center - California

MORE - The cross-referral networks of the PAS purveyors

Richard Austin, Ph.D. * R. Christopher Barden, Ph.D. * Stephen Ceci, Ph.D. * Douglas Darnall, Ph.D. * Stephen Herman, M.D. * Jayne Major, Ph.D. * Daniel Rybicki, Ph.D. * S. Richard Sauber, Ph.D. (listed twice) * W. vonBoch-Galhau, Ph.D. * Richard A Warshak, Ph.D. * J. Michael Bone * L. F. Lowenstein, Ph.D. * Reena Sommer, Ph.D. * Jerry Brinegar, Ph.D. * Katherine Andre, Ph.D. * Ken Lewis, Ph.D. * Catherine Swanson Cain, Ph.D. * Monty Weinstein, Ph.D. * Amy J. L. Baker, Ph.D. * David Britton * Robert Evans, Ph.D. * Debra Gordy * Christina McGhee * Harvey Shapiro (Elizabeth Loftus's "investigator") * Jose Manuel Aguilar Cuenca * Theresa K. Cooke, * Jeff Opperman * Remi Thivierge * Joe Goldberg * James J. Gross, Esq. * Randy Kolin, Ph.D. * Randy Rand * David Carico, Esq. * Lawrence W. Daly * Charles D. Jamieson, Esq.

[www.parental-alienation-awareness.com/
experts.asp accessed 01/01/08]


December 11, 2008: Appellate court decision in the Dr. Rick Lohstroh case: this is what some of these people call PAS!!

Psychology and psychiatry have no science behind their diagnoses, and no cures.  Clinical experience imparts no more ability than astrological experience or theological experience to make predictions or provide explanations applicable to a case in a court of law.  The proper standard for judicial gatekeeping of expert psychological witnesses to ban these opinions from courts of law.  Opinions based on non-falsifiable beliefs do not constitute scientific, technical, or expert evidence -- no matter how much literature is published, and no matter how widely the beliefs are held.

Richard Warshak, Richard Gardner, Reena Sommer, Amy J. L. Baker, J. Michael Bone, no scientific research supporting parental alienation, parental alienation syndrome,parental alienation therapy.  Compare this position paper of the APA on bad therapies, bogus therapies, and trendy, popular nonsense of other kinds of attachmenttherapies.  Clinical experience imparts no more ability than astrological experience or theological experience to make predictions or provide explanations applicable to a case in a court of law.  The proper standard for judicial gatekeeping of expert psychological witnesses to ban these opinions from courts of law.  Opinions based on non-falsifiable beliefs do not constitute scientific, technical, or expert evidence -- no matter how much literature is published, and no matter how widely the beliefs are held.

Battered Moms Blog

Kauffman on SSRI drugs:  article - prozac - zoloft - paxil - prozac - celexa - zoloft - effexor - luvox - school shootings - death - suicide - serious side effects - don't put your kids on drugs

Joyce Murphy feels vindicated, but it's bittersweet. I blame the entire family court system, she said, because they are not held accountable. Marilyn Marshall, wrote that Mr. Parson was no danger to anyone, especially his daughter. Now that otherchildren have come forward 6 years later, Parson is in jail on charges of child molestation and child pornography

A Warning Sign on the Road to DSM-V: Beware of Its Unintended Consequences - Allen Francis, M.D.

child custody evaluations and therapeutic jurisprudence: Elizabeth Loftus and memory researchShared Parenting Advocates Distort the Facts and the LawADD ADHD RITALIN PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH FRAUD psychology

How Psychiatry and Modern Psychology Subvert Education, and Harm Children and SocietyPsych Search Net - government records

Psych WatchPsychology is not science -- or good law

Shit for science.  It's not medicine.  See historic advertisements of psychiatric drugs at the Bonkers Institute.Therapeutic Jurisprudence... Not Such a Good Idea:

An RSVP to Professor Wexler's Warm Therapeutic Jurisprudence Invitation to the Criminal Defense Bar: Unable to Join You, Already (Somewhat Similarly) Engaged, by Mae C. Quinn

Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Embracing a Tainted Ideal, by Arthur G. Christean

Punishing Medical Experts for Unethical Testimony: A Step in the Right Direction or a Step too Far? by David B. Resnik, J.D., Ph.D.

    Whores of the Court: The Fraud of Psychiatric Testimony and the Rape of American Justice, by Margaret Hagen

    Whores of the Court - download free at Margaret Hagen's website      "Let us be very clear about the true state of the psychologist's art. Psychologists do not know any more about behavior than the average man or woman in the jury box or the judge's robes. Psychologists do not know what causes behavior and they are entirely incapable of pinpointing some hypothetical event in the past that has led to the present state of an individual. They do not know what got done, how it got done, or whodunit. And not only are they unable to predict future behavior any better than the man or woman on the street, they are actually worse at it, blinded as they are by the illusion of their own expertise. Diagnostic categories are not validly established and diagnoses cannot be rendered reliably. Neither can therapy be reliably used to change the behavior of our citizens, juvenile or adult, violent or simply wayward.

            "Psychologists have no special ability to read into the soul-or mind or psyche-of another human with any more accuracy than the rest of us. Upon finishing graduate or medical school they are not given special soulographs or psychometers that let them plumb the depths of anyone's psychological being. There simply is no mental stethoscope, no matter how much our justice system wishes there were.

          "Clinicians are not trained to perform the myriad tasks the legal system asks them to perform because no body of knowledge exists to support such training. It is a sorry state of affairs, but it is the only state we've got."

Gardisil linked to 78 reports of genital wartsFatherless Children History SeriesBrave New World, Aldous Huxley

FATHERLESS CHILDREN STORIES

Propaganda in America - History of Public Relations (online video)

About that "War on Drugs" in the first place...   more...   more...  more...   more...  more...

The Truth About the DSM and Psych Diagnoses Justice's Posterous

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Mother’s File Complaint Against the United States with the Inter American Commission on Human Rights  

Posted by Claudine Dombrowski

Full Text of IACHR Petition.

http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/pages/304

On May 11,2007,  just before Mother’s Day weekend, ten mothers, one victimized child, now an adult,  leading national and state organizations filed a complaint against the United States with the Inter American Commission on Human Rights. Their petition claims that U.S. courts, by frequently awarding child custody to abusers and child molesters, has failed to protect the life, liberties, security and other human rights of abused mothers and their children. 

PRESS RELEASE

OVERVIEW and FAQ's in materials on the right side of this page.

Scroll down to read full petitition, including case histories of several of the petitioners.  You will be horrified to learn what is happening to abused women and children in courtrooms all across this country.

Exhibit 28: Breaking the Silence: Children’s Stories
Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Tatge Lasseur Productions, 2006 Underwritten by a grant from the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation.
Full length of this documentary was submitted to the IACHR. 

Full Petition to the IACHR (large file)

Table of Contents

Introduction

Petitioners

Court Gender Bias - academic studies

Court Gender Bias -experiential studies

Attempts to Remedy Problem

Summary of Problem

Alleged Violations of the Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man

Compliance

Additional Supporting Organizations - list

List of Exhibits

EXHIBITS

1. Photos of petitioner Claudine Dombrowski . (graphic)

2. Affidavit and book, Let My Children Go, A Mother’s Journal , Wendy Titelman, Kinderlex Books, 2005.

3. Letter from California Protective Parents Association .

4. Affidavit from Kourts for Kids.

5. Letter from StopFamilyViolence.org .

6. EXPOSE  The Failure of Family Courts to Protect Children from Abuse in Custody Disputes:   A Resource Book for Lawmakers, Judges, Attorneys and Mental health Professionals, Our Children Our Future Charitable Foundation, Los Gatos, CA, 1999. 
( very large file - long time to load)

7. Chesler, Phyllis, Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody,  McGraw-Hill Book Company, NY, 1986, select pages.

8. Battered Mothers’ Testimony Project:   A Human Rights Approach to Child Custody and Domestic Violence, Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence, June 2003.

9. Common Misconceptions in Addressing Domestic Violence in Child Custody Disputes , Jaffee, Crooks, and Poisson, 57 Juvenile and Family Court Journal Fall 2003.

10. Justice in the Domestic Relations Division of the Philadelphia Family Court:  A Report to the Community, Women’s Law Project, Philadelphia, Pa, April 2003.

11. California Protective Parents Network , national survey, September 2001 to December 2004.
          Part 1 - table
          Part 2 - report

12. Jana Bommersbach, Jana’s View, Phoenix Magazine , May 2006, p. 28.

13. Article Launched: 6/18/2006 12:00 AM , Mom termed 'parental alienator' wins rare vindication in courts , BY TROY ANDERSON, Staff Writer, LA Daily News.

14. Hoult, Jennifer, J.D., The Evidentiary Admissibility of Parental Alienation Syndrome:   Science, Law and Policy,  Children’s Legal Rights Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1, Spring 2006.

15. Navigating Custody and Visitation Evaluations in Cases with Domestic Violence:  A Judges Guide , National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, 2004, revised 2006.

16. Report on Women’s Rights in the United States under International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in response to the Second and Third Periodic Report of the United States of America, July 2006.

17. Courageous Kids personal stories.
            Part 1 - Courageous Kids Network
            Part 2 - Case Studies
            Part 3 - Letter to IACHR by siblings
            Part 4 - Alana Krause, Girl, Interrupted

18. Letter from Legal Momentum to Daniel Meron, DHHS , Washington, DC dated 28 February 2007.

19. European Parliament, A6-0404/2005, Report , 9.12.2005 on the current situation in combating violence against women and any future action (2004/2220(INI)) Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality Rapporteur: Maria Carlshamre PE 364.709v02-00 2/17 RR364709EN.doc

20. Testimony to the Truth Commission , Fourth Battered Mothers Custody Conference, January 2007.

21. Examples of Injustices in NYC Family Courts , Battered Women’s Resources Center, January 2007.

22. Letter and columns from The Parenting Project , Rhode Island.

23. Letter from the Illinois Coalition for Family Court Reform .

24. Letter from Child Abuse Forensic Institute , Napa, CA.

25. Legal Momentum letter and summary of Battered
     Mother's Speak Out

26. Letter from National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

27. Letter from Justice for Children

28. Breaking the Silence: Children’s Stories , Connecticut Public Broadcasting (see above for excerpt)

29. Letters of support from additional organizations.

National organizations

                   State Organizations

Explore:
Children Who Witness Violence, Claudine Dombrowski,Custody and Abuse, Dianne Post, Domestic Violence,Human Rights, IACHR,InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, Mother's Day, Petition
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