Research
ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Study
ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Study
The ACE Study
was conducted by Kaiser Permanente with Dr. Vincent Felitti and the CDC in the late 90’s. For the first time, adverse childhood experiences were correlated to addictions, diseases, mental health issues as other adverse situations. Understanding ACEs leads to trauma informed care, removing children from their abusive situations, allowing for healing, and acknowledging how these ACEs are preventable.
California National Organization for Women
California National Organization for Women
It was brought to the attention of CA NOW that there were serious problems with the family court system from women who had experienced the system as wrought with gender bias, due process violations, incompetence, conflict of interest and in some cases corruption. As these testimonials mounted in number, CA NOW decided to investigate the problems in the court through sociological research, collecting case studies and questionnaires, and an historical analysis of the family law system in California as effected by the influences of the Fathers’ Rights movement.
California Protective Parents Association
- REPORT ON SACRAMENTO COUNTY FAMILY COURT PROCESS (2016)
- Court watch program in Sacramento showing disregard for policies and procedures that are needed for victim’s safety.
- Geraldine Butts Stahly, Ph.D. (CSU, San Bernardino) Research with Nancy M. Stuebner, M.A., Wesley Farris, Linda Krajewski, Jose G. Villalobos, and Marva Thomas (CSU, San Bernardino) (2011-2015)
- Geraldine Butts Stahly, Ph.D. Research (2015) This second wave of research shows of the contested divorce custody cases women are starting out with primary custody and losing it once within the court system.
- California outcome summary
- National outcome summary
- Graph of difference between California and national data
- Protective Mothers, Endangered Children - Data collected by Geraldine Stahly Ph.D. and Interns; analyzed by Connie Valentine M.S. (2018)
- Family Courts' Failure to Protect Abused Children in Custody Disputes - Presented at Institute of Violence, Abuse, and Trauma (2014)
- Abuse Allegations in Custody Disputes: The Experience of Protective Mothers - Presented at Western Psychological Conference in Los Angeles, California (2011)
- Nancy M. Stuebner, M.A. Thesis ( signature page ) covering Stahly research subset of sexually abused children with evidence of abuse. (2011)
- Karen Winner, Placing Children At Risk: Questionable Psychologists and Therapists In The Sacramento Family Court And Surrounding Counties (2000)
Child Abuse & Neglect The International Journal
Child Abuse & Neglect The International Journal
review of intervention programs
(2018) Sukhdip K. Purewal Boparai, Vanessa Au, Kadiatou Koita, Debora Lee Oh, Susan Briner, Nadine Burke Harris and Monica Buccia
Child Abuse Solutions
Child Abuse Solutions
View the Child Abuse Solutions fact sheet (2009).
DARVO - Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender, Dr. Jennifer Freyd
DARVO - Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender, Dr. Jennifer Freyd
Donald Richard Froyd, Ph.D. Dissertation
Donald Richard Froyd, Ph.D. Dissertation
Ian Butler,
Lesley Scanlan,
Margaret Robinson,
Gillian Douglas and
Mervyn Murch
Ian Butler,
Lesley Scanlan,
Margaret Robinson,
Gillian Douglas and
Mervyn Murch
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- Petition by Jessica Lenahan Gonzales found the United States committed human rights violations. (2011)
- Attorney Diane Post filed a petition which the Commission has not finished reviewing to date. (2007)
Joan Meier
- The trouble with Harman and Lorandos's attempted refutation of the Meier et al family court study, published 2022
- Challenging Parental Alienation: New Directions for Professionals and Parents. See Chapter 11, Meier, Questioning the Scientific Validity of the Parental Alienation Label in Custody Cases Involving Abuse. 2022
- U.S. child custody outcomes in cases involving parental alienation and abuse allegations: what do the data show? (2020)
- Listen to this podcast as Joan Meier describes the astonishing findings from this empirical research on Researching Reform.
- Mapping Gender: Shedding Empirical Light on Family Courts’ Treatment of Cases Involving Abuse and Alienation (2017)
- Family Court Outcomes in Custody Cases Involving Parental Alienation and/or Abuse (2018) webinar presentation for Battered Women's Justice Project
- How Family Courts Treat Abused and Accusations of Alienation: 3 Women 3 Way interview with Heather Stark and Joan Meier (2017)
- Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations Powerpoint Presentation (2015)
- Rates at Which Accused and Adjudicated Batterers Receive Sole or Joint Custody (2013)
Kathleen Coulborn Faller
- Coaching children about sexual abuse: A pilot study of professionals’ perceptions (2007) Discusses the rate professionals think abuse claims by children are due to coaching by a parent, along with the actual numbers which are much lower.
Leadership Council
The Leadership Council
continually provides research concerning victims of trauma in the legal system and professional circles.
Research and Decision-Making Regarding Parental Alienation in Child Custody Cases: Abusers gaining custody in family courts: A case series of over turned decisions
by Joyanna Silberg and Stephanie Dallam, (July 2019)
How Many Children Are Court -Ordered Into Unsupervised Contact With an Abusive Parent After Divorce? Study shows 58,500 per year in the US are forced to live with their abusers after family court.
Linda C. Neilson
Linda C. Neilson is a Professor Emerita, UNB, Research Associate at Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research in Canada.
Liz Library
The Liz Library
has a collection of articles and research about joint custody, Parental Alienation Syndrome, myths and child abuse.
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health
The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health
vision is to have children reach their maximum health potential.
Through their data, CPPA has put these charts together to show how often abuse is substantiate. The less it is substantiated, the less abuse is believed.
Dr. Michelle Mercurio, Ph.D., Dissertation
Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS)
- The Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law (January 2020) Special issue on Perspectives of Parental Alienation. Elizabeth Sheehy and Simon Lapierre, editors, and contributions by Vivienne Elizabeth and Prof. Joan Meier
- Elizabeth, V. (2020). The affective burden of separated mothers in PA(S) inflected custody law systems: A New Zealand case study. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, Online first, 1–12.
- Feresin, M. (2020). Parental alienation (syndrome) in child custody cases: Survivors’ experiences and the logic of psychosocial and legal services in Italy. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, Online first, 1–12
- Lapierre, S., Ladouceur, P., Frenette, M., & Côté, I. (2020). The legitimization and institutionalization of ‘parental alienation’ in the Province of Quebec. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, Online first, 1–15
- Mackenzie, D., Herbert, R., & Robertson, N. (2020). ‘It’s Not OK’, but ‘It’ never happened: Parental alienation accusations undermine children’s safety in the New Zealand Family Court. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, Online first, 1–12
- Meier, J. S. (2020). U.S. child custody outcomes in cases involving parental alienation and abuse allegations: What do the data show? Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, Online first, 1–14.
- Sheehy, E., & Lapierre, S. (2020). Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, Online first, 1–4
- Vila, G. C. (2020). Parental Alienation Syndrome in Spain: Opposed by the Government but accepted in the Courts. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, Online first, 1–11.
- Barnett, Adrienne (2020) A genealogy of hostility: parental alienation in England and Wales, 18-29.
- Parental Alienation Analysis, Domestic Violence, and Gender Bias in Minnesota Courts (2011)
Nico Trocme´, Nicholas Bala
False allegations of abuse and neglect when parents separate
(2004) Study shows intentional false reporting of abuse at 4%.
The Robing Room
The Robing Room
allows for litigants to rate their judges and see how others have rated them.
Michael Salter
Production and distribution of child sexual abuse material by parental figures
by Michael Salter, WK Tim Wong, Jan Breckenridge, Sue Scott, Sharon Cooper, Noam Peleg February 20, 2021
The Saunders' Study
Child Custody Evaluators’ Beliefs About Domestic Abuse Allegations: Their Relationship to Evaluator Demographics, Background, Domestic Violence Knowledge and Custody Visitation Recommendations
by Daniel G. Saunders, Ph.D., Kathleen C. Faller, Ph.D., Richard M. Tolman, Ph.D.
Stephanie Dallam & Joyanna L. Silberg
VAWA
Crisis in Family Court: Lessons From Turned Around Cases. Final Report submitted to the Office of Violence Against Women, Department of Justice by Joyanna Silberg, PhD Stephanie Dallam, PhD Elizabeth Samson September. (2013)