Resources
Research & Case Studies
Studies:
- The Joan Meier Study https://xyonline.net/sites/xyonline.net/files/2020-05/Meier%2C%20U.S.%20child%20custody%20outcomes%20in%20cases%20involving%20parental%20alienation%20and%20abuse%20allegations%202020.pdf + more info about Joan Meier https://www.law.gwu.edu/joan-s-meier
- The Saunders Study https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/238891.pdf — The United States Department of Justice commissioned a study by Dr. Daniel Saunders of the University of Michigan investigating how well court professionals, particularly evaluators, respond to domestic violence cases.…it found that evaluators, judges and lawyers without specific training in domestic violence, focus on the myth that mothers frequently make false reports. This is not based on valid research, but rather the stereotype of the woman scorned or the angry woman.
- Post-Separation Abuse ‘Journal of Advanced Nursing’ https://child-justice.org/post-separation-abuse-a-concept-analysis-by-kathryn-j-spearman/
- What is Post Separation Abuse ‘wheel’ https://www.onemomsbattle.com/post-separation-abuse
- “It’s Post Separation Abuse – Not High Conflict Divorce.” As published in Psychology Today Jan. 2022 — https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/invisible-chains/202201/its-post-separation-legal-abuse-not-high-conflict-divorce?amp
KEY POINTS:- Domestic abusers often exert control over their ex-partners through the legal system.
- Post-separation legal abuse takes a tremendous psychological toll on victim-survivors and children.
- The legal system often mistakes legal abuse for “high conflict divorce.”
- A Guide to Coercive Control by Evan Stark, PhD forensic social worker “Domestic abuse is about a pattern of domination, intimidation and deliberately impeding the rights of one’s intimate partner; this is called coercive control. Increasingly, legislatures across the United States are passing laws that include explicit references to coercive control. These laws are designed to address damage inflicted apart from physical.
- https://lundybancroft.com/articles/ Lundy’s work focuses on working for justice for abused women and their children. Toward these goals, Lundy strives to write and disseminate accurate information about abusive men, including their strategies and tactics, their ways of getting away with what they do, their ways of keeping women trapped, and their realistic potential for change. Additionally, he writes and trains about the impact abusive men have on children in their lives. Lundy won the 2004 Pro Humanitate Literary Award from the North American Resource Center for Child Welfare, for The Batterer as Parent: Addressing the Impact of Domestic Violence on Family Dynamics.
