Studies & Articles

1. 2018 O'Donohue, et al. - The Frequency of False Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse: A Critical Review
2. 2007 Faller - Coaching children about sexual abuse: A pilot study of professionals perceptions
3. 2005 Trocme & Bala - False allegations of abuse and neglect when parents separate
4. 2000 Oates, et al. - Erroneous concerns about child sexual abuse
1. 2022 Meier, et al. - The Trouble with Harman and Lorandos’ Parental Alienation Allegations in Family Court Study
2. 2020 Meier - U.S. child custody outcomes in cases involving parental alienation and abuse allegations - What do the data show
3. 2019 Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations
4. 2016 O'Donohue, et al. - Examining the validity of parental alienation syndrome
5. 2016 Meier - Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation - A research review
6. 2016 Clemente and Padilla-Racero - When courts accept what science rejects - Custody issues concerning the alleged parental alienation syndrome
7. 2015 - ABA ARTICLE Thomas, Parental Alienation Syndrome - 30 Years On and Still Junk Science
8. 2009 Meier - A Historical Perspective on Parental Alienation and PAS
9. 2001 Bruch - Parental Alienation Syndrome Getting it Wrong In Custody Cases
1. 2017 Saunders - Evaluating the Evaluators
2. 2017 Saunders, et al. - State Laws Related to Family Judges' and Custody Evaluators' Recommendations in Cases of Intimate Partner Violence Custody Evaluators’ Beliefs About Domestic Abuse Allegations
3. 2012 Saunders, et al - Child Custody Evaluators’ Beliefs About Domestic Abuse Allegations
4. 2011 Davis, et al - Custody Evaluations When There Are Allegations of Domestic Violence Practices, Beliefs, and Recommendations of Professional Evaluators
5. 2011 - Davis, et al - The Need for Mandatory Domestic Violence Training for Court-Appointed Custody Evaluators
1. 2022 Spearman - Post-separation abuse: a concept analysis
2. 2019 Stark - Properly Accounting for Domestic Violence in Child Custody Cases - An Evidence-Based Analysis and Reform Proposal
3. 2017 Fallon, et al. - Responding to safety concerns and chronic needs
4. 2016 Hannah and Goldstein - Domestic Violence, Abuse, and Child Custody
1. 2016 DTL - Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure Statistics and Literature Review
2. 2005 Fact Sheet on Child Abuse in Custody Disputes - Child Abuse Solutions
3. DTL - Statistics Chart - Magnitude of the Problem
4. DTL - Statistics - The Perpetrators
5. ALR - Child Sexual Abuse Accomodation Syndrome
1. Lynne M. Baker, Counselling Christian women on how to deal with domestic violence, xv, 271 (2010)
2. “Submit to your husbands”: Women told to endure domestic violence in the name of God, ABC NEWS (2017)
1. 2022 Gutowski & Goodman - Article - Coercive Control In the Courtroom: the Legal Abuse Scale (LAS)
2. 2015 Thomas & Richardson - ABA Article - Parental Alienation Syndrome - 30 Years On and Still Junk Science 2015
3. 2012 Behre - Digging beneath the equality language - Wllm and Mary Journal of Women and the Law
4. 2009 Zorza - Navigating custody and visitation evaluations in cases with domestic violence - a judge's guide
5. 2006 Dalton, Drozd & Wong - Navigating custody and visitation evaluations in cases with domestic violence - a judge's guide
6. 2003 Brigner - Ohio domestic violence benchbook - a practial guide for judges and magistrates
7. 2002 Heim - California NOW Family Court Report
1. 2021 Hawaiʻi Children’s Justice Center Statistics - Hawaiʻi State Judiciary Annual Report
2. 2019 CWLA - Hawaiʻi Child Abuse Statistics
3. 2018 CAN Report - Hawaiʻi Child Abuse Statistics
4. 2004 Hawaiʻi Attorney General - Sex Assault Victims Statistics
5. 1998 Hawaiʻi Attorney General - Murders In Hawaii from 1992-1997
6. DTL - Child Sexual Abuse Statistics

“Evidentiary admissibility may have a lesser standard in civil court, but not so loose that it allows for the admission of wishful thinking dressed in scientific clothing.”

~ Thomas & Richardson, Parental Alienation Syndrome - 30 Years On and Still Junk Science, American Bar Association, The Judges' Journal, Volume 54, Number 3, Summer 2015.

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