![]() Image from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | Barry Goldstein, JD, describes the "pretend world" of the broken custody court system in which most "court professionals have been trained to view contested custody cases as 'high conflict' by which they mean the parents are angry at each other and act out in ways harmful to their children. Current research, however, establishes that most of these cases are actually domestic violence cases. Fathers with a long history of abuse seek custody as a way to gain access to their victim to pressure her to return or punish her for leaving. Court professionals unwittingly assist these tactics by pressuring the mother to interact and cooperate with her abuser instead of pressuring the father to stop his abuse." |