The Great American Custody Wars – Domestic Violence

I have been battling the Great American Custody Wars ever since the mid-1970s. I could not believe what was happening to mothers then — and when I broke the news, in the 1980s, few people believed me.

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Policy and practice implications: Child maltreatment, intimate partner violence and parenting

Key Messages This paper explores the system responses required to support children exposed to intimate partner violence. Guiding principles for protecting children and adults exposed to child maltreatment and intimate partner violence include: •

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#CoerciveControl Rather than Euphemisms as ‘family dysfunction’ or ‘inter-parental conflict’.  Focus behavior and systematic use of control, rather than focusing on incident-based physical violence. #ViolenceAgainstWomen

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