The Resource Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations, United States, 2005-2014
Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations, United States, 2005-2014
Resource Information
The item Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations, United States, 2005-2014 represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bowdoin College Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations, United States, 2005-2014 represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bowdoin College Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- A troubling aspect of justice system response to intimate partner violence is custody courts' failure to protect children when mothers allege the father is abusive. Family courts' errors in assessing adult and child abuse, and punitive responses to abuse allegations, have been widely documented. A significant contributor to these errors is the pseudo-scientific theory of parental alienation (PA). Originally termed parental alienation syndrome (PAS), the theory suggests that when mothers allege that a child is not safe with the father, they are doing so illegitimately, to alienate the child from the father. PA labeling often results in dismissal of women's and children's reports of abuse, and sometimes trumps even expert child abuse evaluations. PAS was explicitly based on negative stereotypes of mothers and has been widely discredited. However, the term parental alienation is still widely used in ways that are virtually identical to PAS. However, because PA is nominally gender neutral (and not called a scientific syndrome), it continues to have substantial credibility in court. The first goal of the study was to ascertain whether empirical evidence indicated that parental alienation is also gender-biased in practice and outcome. Drawing from courts' own reports of facts, findings, and outcomes, such research could inform advocates and the courts regarding the validity or invalidity of relying on PA to strip mothers of their children and potentially subject children to ongoing abuse. Second, inspired by some tentative findings, the study sought to explore outcomes in custody/abuse litigation by gender and by differing types of abuse. The study relied solely on electronically available published opinions in child custody cases; to date, the researchers have identified 240 cases involving alienation and alienation plus abuse. The researchers sought to expand the database to include non-alienation abuse cases as a comparison, and to address additional questions about custody/abuse adjudications
- Note
-
- 2005--2014
- 37331
- Label
- Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations, United States, 2005-2014
- Title
- Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations, United States, 2005-2014
- Summary
- A troubling aspect of justice system response to intimate partner violence is custody courts' failure to protect children when mothers allege the father is abusive. Family courts' errors in assessing adult and child abuse, and punitive responses to abuse allegations, have been widely documented. A significant contributor to these errors is the pseudo-scientific theory of parental alienation (PA). Originally termed parental alienation syndrome (PAS), the theory suggests that when mothers allege that a child is not safe with the father, they are doing so illegitimately, to alienate the child from the father. PA labeling often results in dismissal of women's and children's reports of abuse, and sometimes trumps even expert child abuse evaluations. PAS was explicitly based on negative stereotypes of mothers and has been widely discredited. However, the term parental alienation is still widely used in ways that are virtually identical to PAS. However, because PA is nominally gender neutral (and not called a scientific syndrome), it continues to have substantial credibility in court. The first goal of the study was to ascertain whether empirical evidence indicated that parental alienation is also gender-biased in practice and outcome. Drawing from courts' own reports of facts, findings, and outcomes, such research could inform advocates and the courts regarding the validity or invalidity of relying on PA to strip mothers of their children and potentially subject children to ongoing abuse. Second, inspired by some tentative findings, the study sought to explore outcomes in custody/abuse litigation by gender and by differing types of abuse. The study relied solely on electronically available published opinions in child custody cases; to date, the researchers have identified 240 cases involving alienation and alienation plus abuse. The researchers sought to expand the database to include non-alienation abuse cases as a comparison, and to address additional questions about custody/abuse adjudications
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
-
- Meier, Joan
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
- Label
- Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations, United States, 2005-2014
- Note
-
- 2005--2014
- 37331
- Control code
- ICPSR37331.v3
- Governing access note
- Access restricted to subscribing institutions
- Label
- Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations, United States, 2005-2014
- Note
-
- 2005--2014
- 37331
- Control code
- ICPSR37331.v3
- Governing access note
- Access restricted to subscribing institutions
Embed
Settings
Select options that apply then copy and paste the RDF/HTML data fragment to include in your application
Embed this data in a secure (HTTPS) page:
Layout options:
Include data citation:
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.bowdoin.edu/portal/Child-Custody-Outcomes-in-Cases-Involving/I-z1BWBP0vs/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.bowdoin.edu/portal/Child-Custody-Outcomes-in-Cases-Involving/I-z1BWBP0vs/">Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations, United States, 2005-2014</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.bowdoin.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="https://link.bowdoin.edu/">Bowdoin College Library</a></span></span></span></span></div>
Note: Adjust the width and height settings defined in the RDF/HTML code fragment to best match your requirements
Preview
Cite Data - Experimental
Data Citation of the Item Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations, United States, 2005-2014
Copy and paste the following RDF/HTML data fragment to cite this resource
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.bowdoin.edu/portal/Child-Custody-Outcomes-in-Cases-Involving/I-z1BWBP0vs/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.bowdoin.edu/portal/Child-Custody-Outcomes-in-Cases-Involving/I-z1BWBP0vs/">Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations, United States, 2005-2014</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.bowdoin.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="https://link.bowdoin.edu/">Bowdoin College Library</a></span></span></span></span></div>
