A Mixed and Dangerous Tool (critique of prior guide) by Joan Zorza SCHOLAR

Collaborative Law; Cooperative Law; Voluntary Mediation; etc.
This category includes the various forms of ADR that involve client-controlled negotiated alternate dispute resolution in the family court system. Also see section on PSYCHOLOGY

Guardians ad Litem; Parenting Coordinators; Custody Evaluators, etc.
This category includes the various forms of so-called ADR (alternate dispute resolution) practitioners, such as GALs, parenting coordinators, parenting evaluators, forensic psychologists, recommending mediators, special masters, court-ordered therapists, other court-appointed mental health professionals, supervised visitation centers, and other profiteers of "therapeutic jurisprudence", whose methods involve -- in non-criminal cases -- intrusion and coercion under the threat of court sanctions, and actual or de facto extra-judicial decision-making. This website heavily criticizes all of these practices, which have multiple things wrong with them, not the least of which is denigration of due process, and the diminution of a publicly observable, regulated, and appealable "rule by law" by substituting the caprice of men and women. These practices have been promoted as "cures" for ailings of the court system and the litigants in it by self-serving persons who apparently are ignorant, or else just do not care about the harms they cause to children and their parents because they make money from the ideas they promote, churning profit in proceedings that fly in the face of the foundations of our justice system. The bulk of these materials are listed in the section on PSYCHOLOGY. Also see the sections on the specific substantive issues, such as child development or parental alienation.

Psychology in the Family Court; Forensic; Therapeutic Jurisprudence
See comments under Guardians ad Litem, and then go to section on PSYCHOLOGY. Also see the sections on the specific substantive issues, such as child development or parental alienation.

Relocation; Post-divorce Move-aways
Post-divorce relocation issues are interconnected with issues of maternity and pregnancy, primary caregiving, economics, parental alienation, child development (education and attachment issues), father's rights, and other family law issues, as well as to issues involving forensic psychologists, guardians ad litem (GALs) and other mental health professionals in the family court system, so check related sections, including those on psychology for other relevant articles. NOTE: The LIZNOTES index page contains links to recommended off-site locations as well as the on-site articles.

Mother's Petition for Rehearing 05/14/04 PDF

California Supreme Court decision 04/29/04 PDF

Mother's Response Brief to Shear and Warshak 10/17/03 PDF PDF

Emails by members of Assoc of Certified Family Law Specialists, CA 08/11/03

Mother's Motion re Best Interests Order 07/29/03

Mother's Objection to Untimely Briefs by Warshak and Shear 07/26/03 DOC

Press Release: Kim Robinson (mother's lawyer) 07/08/03

Letter from mother to father announcing relocation to AZ 07/08/03

Press Release: National Coalition for Family Justice of California, Inc. 07/07/03

Amicus Curiae Public Statement: background and case details 07/03

Shear Amicus Brief (for the Therapeutic Juri$prudence crowd) PDF cover PDF

Richard Warshak Amicus Brief (written by Sanford Braver) PDF

Press Release: Judith Wallerstein 06/30/03

Law Professor's Amicus Brief 05/21/03 PDF

California Women's Law Center Amicus Brief PDF

Judith Wallerstein Amicus Brief 05/12/03 PDF

Mother's California Supreme Court Brief 01/17/03 PDF

Father's California Supreme Court Brief 10/18/02 PDF

Decision: LaMusga Court of Appeal 05/10/02 PDF

Decision: In re Marriage of Burgess 04/15/96

Press Release: National Coalition for Family Justice of California, Inc.

Research "Myths and Facts" pages
These pages, and the pages on custody evaluation and the joint custody, contain literally thousands of research citations. The sociological and psychological research on families and child well-being impacts public policy and the issues of child custody in family law. The research frequently is misrepresented, and mis-cited by mental health professionals, lawyers, forensic psychologists and others, as well as interest groups lobbying for laws. The "facts" on the research myths and facts pages refer to the "fact" of the actual research findings. Often what is cited instead is the "spin" or speculation in researchers' writeups. These pages are presented as a commentary on the flimsy rationales (of record) given for much of current public policy. Also review the other sections pertaining to the issues impacted by the research, such as child custody, parental alienation theory, and other family law issues, as well as the section on therapeutic jurisprudence, which in the family courts is economic opportunism (not science) under the pretext that engineering family affectional relationships is within the ability of mental health "science" to accomplish (this is misrepresentation), and moreover, that it is an appropriate goal of the government and court system using the specious rationale that these interventions are necessary or helpful for children's wellbeing (while ignoring the many iatrogenic effects on both families and the over-burdened courts).Also see subsection on Child Custody in FAMILY LAW

Response to Wade Horn's "The Importance of Being Father" by liz

These are transcripts from "A Fatherless Minute" series sponsored by The Liz Library for The Justice Hour radio show on WPBR 1340 AM. The term "fatherless" ("fatherlessness") is used in this series as it is in current research and policy rhetoric by the U.S. federal government, DHHS and the National Fatherhood Initiative, most U.S. states in connection with child custody law and policy, and various family values and fatherhood interest policy and lobbying groups. (For the research, see the subsections Research Myths and Facts and Child Custody, as well as the section on FAMILY LAW generally.) Additional stories are being added by Winsome Solo.

Myths and Facts about Fatherhood  |  more research  |  custody reseach CITATIONS TO RESEARCH

Forensic Psychology; Guardians ad Litem; Therapeutic Jurisprudence
The sociological and psychological research on families and child well-being impacts public policy and the issues of child custody in family law. The research frequently is misrepresented, and mis-cited by mental health professionals, lawyers, forensic psychologists and others, as well as interest groups lobbying for laws. Also review the sections pertaining to the issues impacted by the "therapeutic jurisprudence", such as child custody, parental alienation theory, research pertaining to child development, the subsection for research Myths and Facts in FAMILY LAW, and other family law issues. Also see the subsection on Child Custody in FAMILY LAW. The Therapeutic Jurisprudence index page contains links to recommended off-site locations as well as the on-site articles

Child Custody Evaluations and Measuring Attachment (limited science) by Jean Mercer 2009 PDF SCHOLAR

Child sex abuse, the limits of Loftus, and overblowing the memory research LIZNOTES, CITES

Children's Associational Rights: Why less is more by Emily Buss PDF SCHOLAR

Collaborative Law: What's Wrong with Multidisciplinary Practice? by liz

Court-appointed Parenting Evaluators: The Case for Abolition by Margaret Dore PDF SCHOLAR

Custody Evaluations: Ten Signs of Questionable Practices by Joel V. Klass, M.D. SCHOLAR

Custody evaluators' arguments about test records -- and why they're wrong by liz

Custody Evaluators' Beliefs About Domestic Abuse Allegations, U.S. Dept Justice October 31, 2011 PDF SCHOLAR
           Caveat: recommendations in the above paper are NOT endorsed by thelizlibrary.org

Disciplining Divorcing Parents: Social Construction of Parental Alienation by F. Besset PDF SCHOLAR

Family Court is Not a Family-Friendly Place by Lisa Marie Macci, Esq.

Forensic Psychologists Opining Stupidly on the Zimmerman case a little anecdotal-type case study

Guardians ad Litem in Custody Litigation: The Case for Abolition by Richard Ducote PDF SCHOLAR

Parental Alienation Syndrome -- getting it wrong in child custody cases by Carol S. Bruch PDF SCHOLAR

Martha C. Jacobson Custody Evaluation I (Case Study)

Martha Jacobson Custody Evaluation II (Case Study)

Parenting Coordination Issues by liz

Psychiatric experts assess parental alienation by David Crary

Psychology in Court: A Trial Within a Trial by liz

Psychology in Court: The Detectives by liz

Psychology in Court:The Diagnosticians by liz

Psychology in Court: Discovery of Test Data by liz

Psychology in Court: How to Respond to the MMPI-2 by liz

Psychological Testing in Family Court - Rorschach Ink Blots: Walk Out by liz

Reevaluating the Evaluators (overview of the problem) by liz CITATIONS TO RESEARCH
   Custody Evaluator Quotes by liz (companion to above article)

Response to Kuehnle & Drozd Spring 2012 AFCC-FL presentation by liz (theirs here). PDF

Signs of a Bad Custody Evaluation by Joel V. Klass, M.D. SCHOLAR

Socialization, Personality Development, and the Child's Environments by Judith Rich Harris SCHOLAR

Sound Research or Wishful Thinking in Custody Cases? by Carol S. Bruch PDF SCHOLAR

Stupidity Inherent in Promoting Supervised Visitation Centers by liz

Troubling Admission of Supervised Visitation Records in Court by Stern/Oehme PDF SCHOLAR

What Does the Guardian ad Litem do in Family Court? by liz

Warren Farrell Does a Custody Evaluation by liz

What's Wrong with Parenting Coordination by liz

Why "Therapeutic Jurisprudence" Must Be Eliminated From Our Family Courts by liz

Why "Therapeutic Jurisprudence" Must Be Eliminated From Our Courts by liz (pub. version)

Critical Assessment of Child Custody Evaluations by Emery, Otto, Donohue off-site PDF SCHOLAR

    

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READING AND RESEARCH ROOMS

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Reading Rooms

Index: Reading Room
This is a collection of on-site and great offsite links reading for pleasure and education, including complete on-line works of fiction and nonfiction. Send recommendations for additional listings to sarah@argate.net. Also see: the inspirational:

Fatherless Children Stories

Spotlight on Women of Achievement

Addicted to Hate: Story of the Phelps family and the Westboro Baptist Church BOOK

Research Room - Reference materials

Index: Research Rooms
Links page. General reference materials such as calculators, calendars, measures, dictionaries, translators, directories, and similar material; quick links to legal research websites. To be on this page, it has to be outstanding. Send suggestions to sarah@argate.net.

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WOMEN'S HISTORY; WOMEN'S RIGHTS

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"...He has so framed the laws of divorce, as to what shall be the proper causes, and in case of separation, to whom the guardianship of the children shall be given, as to be wholly regardless of the happiness of women -- the law, in all cases, going upon a false supposition of the supremacy of man and giving all power into his hands." -- Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

Brett's Carrel: Women and Religion
Military Women
Woman Suffrage in the United States
WOMEN'S HISTORY LIBRARY - annotated source documents
Women's History - Featured Articles
Women of Achievement History Lessons
          Calendar
          Exhibit Hall
          Women's History Month
Catt's Claws Political Newsletter archives 1995-2001
GenderGappers Political Newsletter archives 1997-2008        [current blog]

Brett's Carrel: Women and Religion
This section includes bits and snippets of information relevant to religion and women, both on-site, and recommended off-site links. Atheism is the primary focus, because, among other things, it represents the ultimate rejection of the demands of religious teachings and moral traditions, most of which are based on a quasi-governmental purpose that includes control of the population. Such control manifests not only in moral teachings and exortations (supplementing the sovereign laws), but also in the religion's rituals, concepts about family, and restrictions on the education and sexual behavior of women (mostly), as well as dictates of appropriate child-rearing practices. At times religion has become extreme in the measures used in defense of its own perpetuation, e.g. the Witch Craze of the Middle Ages, or the religious Jihad or punitive Sharia laws of today. At other times religion functions, either as the government or with the landed government, in more subtle but just as powerful, ways. Those who wish to control the population (the sovereign, the religious leaders, or those otherwise in positions or power and privilege) seek to control women in ways differently from men because women control reproduction, the greatest societal resource, and -- in the absence of such control over women -- women would control their offspring. (These lessons are throughout the Old Testament, e.g. King Solomon.) In a patriarchal culture, not controlling mothers -- in large part accomplished by and through religion and its moral teachings (e.g. submission to marriage in husband-headed families) -- could conceivably result in the overthrow the power structure within a generation or two. By contrast, war, patriotic rhetoric and military service historically control the sovereign's male population. Loyalty in that service to the sovereign -- typically barred to women -- is rewarded for those who survive with property, ownership power over family members and servants, and often some measure of citizenship participation. This in turn is how the sovereign subdues, orders and controls its armies and labor force, the potentially dangerous and rebellious male population. (In more recent times, psychology, drugs, pornography -- woman ownership -- and consumerism substitute in part for traditional patriarchal religion in keeping the labor force subdued and beholden to the company store.) Also see The Women's Bible in The Women's History Library

Index: Brett's Carrel

Witch Craze Timeline by Margaret Russell

Book Review: Witch Craze by Anne Lewellyn Barstow by Brett

Musings on Free Speech, Power and Choices by Brett

More on the Witch Craze by Brett

Economic theory -- Response to Brett by Peter in South Africa

Newsclipping 02/02/98: Suspected Witches Hacked to Death

Brett Replies to Peter: Veering Off Topic by Brett

Newsclipping 05/02/99: Witch Hunts in Africa

Newsclipping 03/27/00: Gender and Witchcraft Killings in Tanzania

Newsclipping 07/03/00: More Witchcraft Murders in Tanzania

Addicted to Hate: Story of the Phelps family and the Westboro Baptist Church BOOK

Newsclipping 06/19/05: Romanian Orthodox priest crucifies nun

Newsclipping 08/08/05: From Superstition to Savagery in India

Evolution and Religion: Darwin's God by Robin Marantz Henig, NYTimes 03/04/07

Witchhunting in Ireland 10/23/07 by Lilith Universe

Newsclipping 02/13/08: Saudis to Execute a Woman for Witchcraft

Newsclipping 04/24/08: Congo police arrest penis snatchers (witches)

Military Women History (through Viet Nam War)

Index: Military Women

Bibliography of Resources on Women in the Military CITATIONS TO RESEARCH

Biography of Anna Ella Carroll by Kay Larson SCHOLAR

Military Women Casualties

American Women in War

Women Spies

Surgeon, Spy, Suffragist: Mary Edwards Walker

Women Prisoners of War

Military Women in Film

Military Women in Television

Military Women Astronauts

Firsts for Military Women

Women Buried in Arlington National Cemetery

Military Women Trivia

WWI Women's Recruiting Posters

Chart of military ranks in the four major U.S. services (2008)

Spotlight on Women (featured women's history articles)

Index: Spotlight Articles. Contains rotating featured articles, history, and inspirational stories.

Louise Thaden Flew as No Woman Had Flown Before by Irene Stuber

Pedestriennes: Controversial Women in Sporting Entertainment by Dahn Shaulis SCHOLAR

Rebels aren't always skinny little men wearing bandanas by Irene Stuber

Woman Suffrage in the United States; Woman Suffrage Timeline
The timeline in this section includes the little known -- and usually omitted -- dates when women first LOST their voting rights in the United States following the Declaration of Independence. Previously, voting rights were based on land ownership, not sex, and while most women suffered a chattel-like status as minors or wives under control of fathers, guardians, and husbands (thus not owning land or exercising full citizenship rights) some unmarried women heirs and widows without sons were able to vote and contract because they did not have these "protectors". See the precedent: Elizabeth I's "I Have the Heart of a King" speech. Also see other Women's History Library documents.

Index: Woman Suffrage in the United States

Abigail Adams's Letters to John Adams

Abolitionist Movement and Woman Suffrage
        with Ain't I a Woman speech by Sojourner Truth

The 1848 Declaration of Sentiments

Woman Suffrage Timeline by Lexington Area NOW

Woman Suffrage Timeline Book List by Margaret Russell CITATIONS TO RESEARCH

The 1981 U.S. Commission Report on Women's Rights (E.R.A.)

Women's History Library of Source Documents
In this section, the documents are arranged in both chronological order, so that they can be read straight through in the manner of a history lesson, as well as by author for ease of reference. Also see the subsection on Woman Suffrage.

Index: Primary Source Documents, annotated (by author)

Index: Primary Source Documents, annotated (by date)

1588 - Elizabeth I's speech "I have the Heart of a King."

1792 - A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

1848 - Declaration of Sentiments: Report of Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls

1848 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton's keynote speech

1873 - Susan B. Anthony: On Woman's Right to Suffrage

1892 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Solitude of Self

1895 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Women's Bible

1896 - Susan B. Anthony on The Woman's Bible

1904 - Declaration of Principles

1905 - Florence Kelley on Child Labor

1906 - "The Colored Man's Paradise" by Mary Church Terrell

1908 - Emma Goldman on Patriotism

1912 - Mother Jones's speech to West Virginia Coal Miners

1913 - Emmeline Pankhurst on suffrage

1915 - What is a Republic by the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw

1918 - League of Women Voters Formed

1918 - Married Love by Marie Stopes

1922 - Woman's Rights Party's Platform

1922 - Re: Mrs. Frank Leslie's Will

1940 - Eleanor Roosevelt's Civil Liberties Speech to A.C.L.U.

1969 - Shirley Chisholm on the Equal Rights Amendment

1992 - A Woman's View: Dying of AIDS by Elizabeth Glaser

1993 - "What other judgment can I judge by but my own?" by Margaret Merrill Toscano

1995 - Donna Shalala's speech in Beijing, China

1995 - Hillary Clinton's speech in Beijing, China at the World Health Org.

1995 - Hillary Clinton's speech at the Fourth U.N. conference

1995 - Rebels aren't always skinny little men wearing bandanas by Irene Stuber

1998 - Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech at Seneca Falls

2001- Angela King's speech to the U.N. on women's issues

Women of Achievement (archive collection, Irene Stuber)

Index: Women of Achievement 366 Days Calendar
More materials similar to those for Women's History Month (below), but for every day. These materials formerly were housed at Irene Stuber's undelete.org. The "calendar" is based on the 900+ episodes of Women of Achievement and Herstory that Irene Stuber emailed to her subscribers 1992-2002. There are tens of thousands of items of biographical information, trivia, interesting stories, and commentary. Biographies and "herstory" data presented through 365 daily calendar episodes plus leap year, and several supplementary items. Use the site search engine (top of page) to locate information.

Index: Women of Achievement Exhibit Hall

Suffrage march photographs

Suffrage cartoon by Courier & Ives

Suffrage editorial

Photos of suffrage statue in the Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Photo of actual document of 19th Amendment

Postcards pro-and-con suffrage

Annie Oakley volunteer poster

Jean Broadhurst newsclip and photo

Maria Mitchell photo and data

Index: Women's History Month (March)
Thirty-one Women of Achievement history lessons in chronological order for March (Women's History Month), including stories, commentary and trivia. Some highlights: Abigail Adams, history of Women's History Month, astronaut Jerrie Cobb, Janet Guthrie, Nicole-Barbe Clicquot, Queen Boadicea of Iceni, U.S. Supreme Court case Reed v. Reed, women marathon runners, Maya Ling Lin and the Viet Nam memorial, the real story of axe murderess Lizzie Bordon, UN Status of Women subcommission, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, fire at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, geneticist Barbara McClintock, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sappho, Hypatia, and the Witch of Agnesi, Marie Iowa, astronaut Eileen Collins, Mormonism and women, Amazons, and more.

Catt's Claws Newsletter (archival collection)

Index: Catt's Claws 1995-2001
Archives of Irene Stuber's wildly popular email newsletter. "Women were not hearing about what was happening to their sisters. They were not hearing of their agonies, their victories, their determination - and what was affecting their health, woman-to-woman. And so in January, 1995, Catt's Claws was born -- a feminist newsletter written by Irene Stuber which attempts in some small way to spread the news of what is happening to women in the U.S. and the world."

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