Stop Legalizing Incest: The Failure of the Court System to Protect Children
By Barry Goldstein, NOMAS Task Group on Child Custody. District Attorney Bill Delahunt put together a group of best practices from the late-1970s to the mid-1990s that dramatically reduced domestic...
View ArticleWhy Family Courts Cannot Protect Children: ACE vs. PAS
By Barry Goldstein, NOMAS Task Group on Child Custody. The ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Studies are medical research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that can be used to...
View ArticleDomestic Violence Is a Gendered Crime
Barry Goldstein For many years, battered women and domestic violence advocates have said Domestic Violence (DV) is a gendered crime, but they were not listened to because they usually had no advanced...
View ArticleDo Women Have a Right to Leave Their Abusers? When Family Courts Protect...
Barry Goldstein Jennifer Schlecht is one of the most recent women to be denied what should be a fundamental right. Jennifer’s husband like many abusers believed she did not have this right. When the...
View Article12 Reasons Family Courts Continue to Destroy Children’s Lives
Barry Goldstein Why Don’t Family Courts Fix Dangerous Practices? The research is now clear that Family Courts get most domestic violence custody cases wrong and often dangerously wrong. The proof of...
View ArticleFamily Court is Broken and Must be Fixed
Barry Goldstein Many protective mothers believe that corruption is the reason family courts are so tilted in favor of abusive fathers and create such harmful decisions. This belief is widespread...
View ArticleDon’t Confuse Domestic Violence with “He-Said-She-Said”
Barry Goldstein Judges, lawyers and evaluators often minimize or dismiss domestic violence (DV) by referring to the dispute as “he-said-she-said.” This flawed approach simply means that the...
View ArticleFamily Court “High Conflict” Divorce Approaches Are Sexist and Gender Biased
Barry Goldstein Family courts routinely use the “high conflict” approach that is based on the stereotypes of the vindictive woman and the nagging wife. This approach encourages courts to assume that...
View ArticleCustody Courts Assume Protective Mothers Are Just Being Vindictive
A recent news item showed a mother attacking a mountain lion who snatched her child. The mother mentioned was not alienating her child from the mountain lion. The mother’s only concern, like most...
View ArticleAlienation Distraction Tactics in Child Custody Cases
Alienation Distraction Tactics in Child Custody Cases Barry Goldstein There is a pattern in most domestic violence custody cases that would help courts understand child custody disputes better and...
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