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Fighting Over the Kids - Battered spouses take aim at a controversial
custody strategy. By Sarah Childress - Newsweek “Parental alienation is now the
leading defense for parents accused of abuse in custody cases, according to
domestic-violence advocates. And it's working. The few current studies done on
the subject consider only small samples. But according to one 2004 survey in
Massachusetts by Harvard's Jay Silverman, 54 percent of custody cases involving
documented spousal abuse were decided in favor of the alleged batterers.
Parental alienation was used as an argument in nearly every case. This
year the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges denounced the
theory as "junk science," and at least four states have passed legislation to
curtail its use in custody cases involving allegations of domestic violence.
"It's really been a cancer in the family courts," says Richard Ducote, an
attorney in Pittsburgh who has represented abuse victims in custody cases for 22
years. "It's made it really difficult for parents to protect their kids. If you
ask for protection, you're deemed a vindictive, alienating parent."" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14870310/site/newsweek/
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