APA: Fathers who batter their children’s mothers can be expected to use abusive power and control techniques to control the children

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Claudine Dombrowski‘s insight:

Although most people believe that fathers should have equal access to their children after the termination of a relationship between the parents, the equal-access option is based on the assumption that the fathers will act in their children’s best interests. However, that is a naive assumption in situations where family violence has occurred.

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