Angels at Risk: Southern California Juvenile Courts Dissolved
Removing an option of education, life lessons and a chance for something better, the juvenile system is being gutted.
Removing an option of education, life lessons and a chance for something better, the juvenile system is being gutted.
Posted 02.27.2012
Miami Heat's power forward Chris Bosh left the NBA All-Star basketball court on Sunday for a court of a different kind. The ball player spent Mond...
Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 01.16.2012
Instead of allowing people to end a failed relationship, the antiquated laws in Massachusetts, Florida, and New Jersey states force them to become permanent adversaries, returning to divorce court whenever circumstances change. They endure a lifetime of legal fees and divorce that never ends.
Joseph E. Cordell | Posted 11.23.2011
The misuse of orders of protection by women when going through a divorce is one of the more prevalent and unfortunate trends in family law. A system that was designed to protect against abuse is itself being abused.
Joseph E. Cordell | Posted 09.26.2011
The father's rights movement isn't an anti-mom or anti-woman movement; it's an anti-unfairness movement. It just so happens that moms have most of the...
Michael Piraino | Posted 05.25.2011
I take as a sign of hope the outpouring of support from people asking how they can become volunteers for other abused and neglected children.
Beverly Willett | Posted 05.25.2011
"If there's one thing feminists love, it's divorce - they consider it liberating." That's just one of the claims Phyllis Schlafly and her co-author S...
David A. Singer | Posted 05.25.2011
If you think you can simply defer to political parties to make the choice in judicial elections for you, think again.
Robin Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011
When you peel back the rhetoric, and peer past the politics, in the South Bronx, as in other poor communities, the bulk of family court cases are really about poverty.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.17.2011
When you're a progressive Democrat living in the Commonwealth of Virginia, you have a lot of 'splainin' to do. The motto "Virginia is for Lovers" may ...
Tina Traster | Posted 11.17.2011
Who among us wouldn't thrill at the idea of humiliating not only a man who is behind on child support but inadvertently shaming his children, who would get to watch him collared on national television?
Tina Traster | Posted 11.17.2011
In America, fathers who can't pay child support are "deadbeats" rather than men who have become overwhelmed or sabotaged by unreasonable financial obligations ordered by family court judges.
Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011
Those who refuse to acknowledge an emotional involvement are hiding and, sadly, they have impressed us so much that we tend to believe in appearance as opposed to substance.
Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.17.2011
The need to expose insidiously sadistic and needy clinicians with lofty affectations is nowhere more crucial than when they do toxic and lasting damage in the guise of protecting the child.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.17.2011
Today I spent three hours in Hell -- the waiting room of the Family Court at the Arlington County, VA courthouse. As the foster parent of an infant, I...
Susie Spain | Posted 04.17.2012