Helpful Research

The National Family Violence Law Center

According to the NFVLC website, "The NFLVC serves as the preeminent home for national research and expert support for the growing movement to better protect children in contested custody cases. It provides pioneering quantitative and qualitative research, training and education, state and federal policy development, and selective litigation."

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This group seeks to conduct research that results in needed reforms in our nation's court systems. One study they have conducted is Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Abuse and Alienation Allegations (2019), a five year study. 

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They also post news about family court reform efforts and legislation. 

Center for Judicial Excellence

The Center for Judicial Excellence has tracked national data since 2008 related to child homicide during custody cases. Click here and scroll down to read further explanation of the information.

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According to the Center's website, "... tragically, many of these cases involve a family court knowingly placing kids in harm’s way, a practice that must be documented in order for  child-centered policy reforms to be passed that will protect vulnerable children during this extremely volatile time in their lives.

"We believe that if family courts across the country were held accountable for operating as they should – with child safety at the forefront of their decision-making, then many of these murdered children would be alive today."

ACE Study

The ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Study "is one of the largest investigations of childhood abuse and neglect and household challenges and later-life health and well-being." according to the CDC. The study examined the long-term effects of abuse and data-collection is still ongoing. 

Child Abuse and Neglect - The International Journal

Ameliorating the biological impacts of childhood adversity: A review of intervention programs (2018) by Sukhdip K. Purewal Boparai, Vanessa Au, Kadiatou Koita, Debora Lee Oh, Susan Briner, Nadine Burke Harris and Monica Buccia

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California Protective Parents Association

The California Protective Parents Association has been active since 1998. They have compiled extensive research and made a significant impact in the California court system. 

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You can find their research HERE. 

Child Abuse Solutions

View the Child Abuse Solutions Factsheet. It is meant to "assist the court in making safe custody and visitation decisions."

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DARVO - Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender,
Dr. Jennifer Freyd

Perpetrator Responses to Victim Confrontation: DARVO and Victim Self-Blame

Learn more about Dr. Freyd, DARVO and Institutional Betrayal.

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Parental Alienation

"Professors Elizabeth Sheehy and Simon Lapierre co-edited a special issue of Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law on critical perspectives on 'parental alienation' published on 07 January 2020." 

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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.

Domestic Violence (DV) by Proxy: Why Terrorist Tactics Employed by Batterers Are Not "PAS"

The Robing Room

The Robing Room allows for litigants to rate their judges and see how others have rated them.

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