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- Courageous Kids Network
- 10 Custody Myths and How To Counter Them
- Creating Justice Through Balance: Integrating Domestic Violence
- Custodians of Abuse
- The Batterer As Parent
- Custody Visitation Scandal Cases
- Batterer Manipulation and Retaliation: Denial and Complicity In the Family Courts
- The Illusion of Protection
- Understanding the Batterer In Custody and Visitation Disputes
- Who´s Protecting Whom? the Criminalization of Protective Parents
- Legal Community Rejects Parental Alienation Syndrome
- Arizona Battered Mothers Testimony Project
- Protective Parents Survey - Pilot Study Results
- Jana's View: Parental Alienation
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- Rate of Domestic Violence In Contested Custody Cases
- Rates At Which Batterers Receive Custody
- 10 Custody Myths and How To Counter Them
- Common Misconceptions in Addressing Domestic Violence in Child Custody Disputes
- The Myth of Epidemic False Allegations of Sexual Abuse In Divorce Cases
- Myths That Place Children At Risk During Custody Litigation
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- Plot for Child Custody Ends in Murder
- High Costs Of Family Court
- CA Law: Right to Attorney for Civil Litigation
- Mother Sought help from Family Court; Now She's Dead
- Child abuse: when family courts get it wrong
- HI: Residents protest family court
- Mom who fled Iowa, ex-spouse, risks jail on return
- Family of Man Who Killed Wife, Self, Gets Custody
- Man kills wife now wants to control custody
- Man Accused of Shooting and Killing Wife Asks for Children to be Moved to Safer Home
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- The Truth About Parental Alienation
- Parental Alienation: A Rational Approach
- Legal Community Rejects Parental Alienation Syndrome
- The Evidentiary Admissibility of Parental Alienation
- Quotes By Richard Gardner
- Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation: Getting It Wrong In Child Custody Disputes
- Lesson from Alec Baldwin: Alienation Begins With You
- National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Rejects PAS
- Parental Alienation Syndrome - What Professionals Need To Know Part 1
- Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation
- Disciplining Divorcing Parents: The Social Construction of Parental Alienation Syndrome
- Parental Alienation Syndrome in Family Courts
- Parental Alienation Syndrome Revisited
- Parental Alienation Syndrome: A Paradigm For Child Abuse In Austrailian Family Law
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- Court Appointed Parenting Evaluators and Guardians Ad Litem: Practical Realities and an Argument for Abolition
- A Critical Assessment of Child Custody Evaluations: Limited Science and a Flawed System
- Guardians Ad Litem In Private Custody Litigation: the Case For Abolition
- Use of the MMPI-2 In Child Custody Evaluations Involving Battered Women: What Does Psychological Research Tell Us?.
- The Role of Psychological Testing
- For Arbiters In Custody Battles, Wide Power and Little Scrutiny
- Families' futures decided with little oversight
Published March 15, 2001 by Family Law Quarterly
Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation: Getting It Wrong In Child Custody Disputes
by Carol S. Bruch
As American courts and legislatures continue their enthusiastic ventures into family law reform, they make frequent use of theories and research from the social sciences. This essay focuses on developments in child custody law stemming from Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS), a theory propounded in 1985 that became widely used despite its lack of scientific foundations.
The discussion highlights theoretical and practical problems with PAS, provides a similar discussion of more recent proposals labeled Parental Alienation (PA), and concludes with recommendations for lawyers and judges who must evaluate these and similar developments.
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© 2001 Family Law Quarterly
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