CJE colleagues Joan Meier and Danielle Pollack demonstrate the the lack of change in how family courts treat women trying to protect their children from sexual abuse through the lens of the Allen v. Farrow case. The Allen v Farrow docuseries currently on HBO brings into focus the unsettling — but all too prevalent — problem of child sex abuse within families. While the film’s narrative about the … [Read more...]
Archives for 2021
DV Victims, Reform Advocates Testify Before State Lawmakers in Support of Jennifers’ Law
CJE was honored to testify at the March 24th hearing in Connecticut on Sen. Alex Kasser's coercive control bill, SB 1060, or Jennifers' Law, in honor of Jennifer Dulos and Jennifer Magnano who were killed by their husbands. The proposed bill aims to redefine domestic violence to include nonphysical forms of abuse known as coercive control that include gaslighting, isolation, threats to take the … [Read more...]
How the Dismissed Theory of “Parental Alienation” Continues to Put Children in Danger
Concerns about the 'alienation plague' that has infected family courts in the United States since the mid-1980's are rapidly spreading across the world as there is a lot of money to be made in these cases. This article from New Zealand about the dangers of alienation in family court decision-making highlights the fact that “parental alienation syndrome” has long-since been dismissed as a theory … [Read more...]
“Allen v. Farrow” | The Public Has Been Groomed by a Master Manipulator and His PR Machine
This must-read opinion article from NBC's Lynn Stuart Parramore explores how the filmmakers of HBO's 'Allen v. Farrow' present the disturbing possibility that, for decades, the public has been groomed by a master storyteller and his PR machine. "By detailing Allen’s deft manipulation of a narrative that the public had long accepted, the HBO series questions the familiar … [Read more...]
In Non-Criminal Courts, You Could Lose Your Kids, Your Home, and Your Freedom Without the Right to Legal Advice
The right for criminal defendants in the U.S. to receive free legal representation if they cannot afford it was established by the Supreme Court almost 60 years ago. Yet in non-criminal courts cases across the country, litigants facing forfeiture of parental rights, eviction or foreclosure, and danger from abusive spouses and domestic partners, are subject to loss of child custody, control over … [Read more...]