New book by LC board member
Mary Gail Frawley-O’Dea, Ph.D.
Perversion of Power: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church (Vanderbilt University Press). She was the only mental health professional to speak to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops at the 2002 meeting where the crisis was first seriously addressed.
Letter to the Editor by LC President Paul Fink
published in the Wall Street Journal.
The letter was in response to attorney Theodore J. Boutrous’, op-ed about the California Supreme Court’s upcoming decision in Taus v. Loftus.
“Please Daddy, No” O, The Oprah Magazine by Jan Goodwin
“We lock up adults who molest children — but what if the molester is the child’s parent? All too often, an outrageous quirk of the law know as the incest loophole metes out only a slap on the wrist and sends the father (or mother) home to abuse again.”
Memory expert Elizabeth Loftus in the news.
Elizabeth Loftus, a founding member of the controversial “False Memory Syndrome Foundation”, has been retained by the defense in the case against Vice President Cheney’s top aide “Scooter” Libby. The defense wants to admit her testimony in order to educate the court regarding “how memory works and why it fails” at Libby’s trial on charges of making false statements to federal investigators. More information regarding Loftus’ controversial background, testimony and the limitations of her research, can be found in our analysis of Taus v. Loftus.
Mom termed ‘parental alienator’ wins rare vindication in courts.
L.A. Daily News
Discusses the case of Irene Jensen and her daughter Tiffany-Ann. They battled the family court and child protective systems for 13 years to save Tiffany from an allegedly abusive father who gained custody after convincing the courts his wife was an “alienator”.
Article challenging the legal admissibility of Parental
Article challenging the legal admissibility of Parental Alienation Syndrome published in Children’s Legal Rights Journal (PDF) more information on PAS
