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Family Law Links: All Categories
National Network to End Domestic Violence
This website of the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) is an excellent resource for legislative developments, updates and alerts, especially at the national level. It also provides detailed information concerning the Fund's grant programs, including their highly regarded Safety Net Technology Safety Program, and provides links to other national domestic violence organizations.
National Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women
This is the website of the National Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women. Particularly useful is its links to other websites; the list is extensive and well-organized by subject matter. It includes more specialized or esoteric domestic violence topics such as Disabled Victims, Faith, and GLBT Issues.
American Bar Association
This is the official site of the American Bar Association. It provides information and resources, including links, regarding family law and domestic violence for practitioners and the public alike. Specifically, access the ABA’s comprehensive sections on Family Law (including state-specific information, finding a lawyer, etc.) and Domestic Violence (safety planning, help for victims of domestic violence, etc.).
American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence
This website contains extensive legal resources for attorneys and policy advocates, including citations to relevant law review articles, the Model Code on Family and Domestic Violence, ABA reports and recommendations, extensive domestic violence training materials, and invitations to join the ABA Domestic Violence Listserv and/or to subscribe to the ABA's DV Quarterly Newsletter. There are also educational brochures, safety planning info, and other useful materials for victims of domestic violence.
Toolkit to End Domestic Violence
Put out by the National Advisory Council on Violence Against women and the Violence Against Women Act Office, this is a good source for information from a variety of perspectives. Includes chapters on (1) Community Based Services, (2) Health and Mental Health Care, (3) Civil Remedies, (4) Criminal Remedies, (5) Additional Justice System Responses, (6) Economic Security, (7) College and University Campuses, (8) The Workplace, (9) Children and Youth, (10) Educating the Public, (11) The Media and Entertainment Industries, (12) Faith-Based Groups and Organizations, (13) Sports, (14) Native Women, (15) The U. S. Military, and (16) The International Community.
Kaiser Permanente's Domestic Violence page
Kaiser Permanente's domestic violence page, including links to the Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence.
Resources from Innermotion
This website is sponsored by the center for Prevention of Sexual Abuse/Domestic Violence. It provides many links to domestic violence resources, and is especially strong on links to police and law enforcement resources, such as the Nashville Police department, the San Diego City Attorney's Domestic Violence Unit, and Anne O'Dell's website.
Workplace Violence from the Occupational Health and Safety Administration
A resource of the Occupational Health & Safety Administration, this link addresses workplace violence, a safety and health issue, and provides training materials and resources for social service workers and late night retail establishments. It also provides guidelines and recommendations for implementing workplace violence prevention programs.
Domestic Violence and the Workplace
This website/blog is maintained by the Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence (CAPEV), the only national nonprofit organization in the United States funded by the business community to address domestic violence as a workplace issue. his is a valuable resource for advocates and for employers working to implement domestic violence policies in their workplaces.
Center for Women Policy Studies
The Center for Women Policy Studies promotes women's human rights and equality. This site contains publications and reports on issues affecting women, including a report on violence against women and girls.
Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation
Site of the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation, which provides information for battered women and their children on domestic violence, safety planning, and how to seek help.
Men Can Stop Rape
Men Can Stop Rape (formerly Men's Rape Prevention Project) empowers male youth and the institutions that serve them to work as allies with women in preventing rape and other forms of men's violence. Through awareness-to-action education and community organizing, the group promotes gender equity and builds men's capacity to be strong without being violent.
Men's Anti-Violence Network
Men's Anti-Violence Network is a group of business and community leaders dedicated to stopping domestic violence by holding the abuser accountable.
Men's Network to End Domestic Violence
The Men’s Network Against Domestic Violence aims to organize a distinct, active, and sustainable group to raise awareness, mobilize, and empower the majority of men who don't abuse their partners, spouses, or girlfriends to bring about greater public awareness of the causes and effects of domestic violence and to reach out to men to become educated about the issue, speak out, and to act in preventing domestic violence.
CincinnatiPAS
CincinnatiPAS presents quotes and documents relating to Dr. Gardner's promotion of PAS and his suicide. PAS cases and judicial scandals in Hamilton County, Ohio, include a Dateline NBC transcript of a mother and daughter who went underground. The tabloid format, sensationalized graphics and sarcastic tone will offend some, but this kind of guerilla theatre more effectively conveys the insane horror of PAS than many dispassionate scholarly studies. It may also appeal to those who find legal language and academic briefs daunting.
How "Parental Alienation Syndrome" is Used Against Mothers And Children Who Allege Child Sexual Abuse
Trish Wilson's archived 1997 article documents the early awareness and demonstrations against PAS.
Justice For Children's Page on PAS
Includes legal briefs against "Parental Alienation Syndrome."
Keeping the Promise: Victim Safety and Batterer Accountability
This is a report to the California Attorney general From the Task Force on Local Criminal Justice Response to Domestic Violence. A Task Force was appointed to examine how local criminal justice systems respond to domestic violence across California. The 26-member task force had representatives from criminal justice agencies, victims, the judiciary, health care, and the Legislature, and focused on four areas: obtaining and enforcing restraining orders, prosecuting misdemeanor domestic violence cases, holding batterers accountable, and law enforcement’s response to health practitioner reports of domestic violence. Looks at 300 interviews with practitioners, hundreds of documents, and testimony from 69 witnesses at six public hearings throughout the state. The report, Keeping the Promise: Protecting Victims of Domestic Violence and Holding Batterers Accountable, identifies numerous problematic practices, and offers clear, straightforward recommendations for what must be implemented to strengthen the criminal justice response to domestic violence.
Domestic Violence & Child Custody (PDF)
Publication by Legal Momentum. Provides information, tips and resources regarding the specifics of child custody when domestic violence is an issue, applicable state and inter-state laws, Parental Alienation Syndrome, and the impact domestic violence has on children. (2006)
Other-Than-Gardner Versions of "Parental Alienation Syndrome"
Trish Wilson reveals the multiple morphing of epithets hurled at mothers in custody campaigns and provides links on the dangers of joint custody.
Richard Gardner's "Parental Alienation Syndrome": Resources for Mothers Who are Charged With Junk Science
Trish Wilson pioneered in much of the early and ongoing work preserving and producing documents that expose the damage done by PAS. Her gift for exposing the absurdity of PAS allegations has helped accused mothers hold onto their sanity. She provides links to numerous articles, both general and scholarly.
Congressional Research Service
This link is to the U.S. Department of State's Congressional Research Service, with issue briefs and reports. Using the site's search engine, you will find reports on the U.S.'s international efforts to end domestic violence.
Federal Register
Published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.
Global Gateway
The Library of Congress's Global Gateway to world culture and resources is a collection of links arranged by country and selected by Library of Congress specialists. They provide authoritative and in-depth information.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
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