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False Child Abuse Claims
"Because there are so many incentives to lie in court during a divorce, people often make up false abuse charges...Because false allegations are so common, these cases are typically not turned over to criminal court. One of the biggest problems in family court is there are so many false accusations and so few consequences for those accusations.
...It's really a travesty the way a system, a system that was designed to protect them from domestic abuse, to protect children from abuse, to protect children from sexual abuse, a system that was set up with every good intention, a system to protect those who needed it has been allowed to be subverted so that false accusers are really able to gain so much by making the false accusations."
From the trailer for Divorce Corp.
NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH.
False child abuse claims (otherwise known as "alienation) are NOT common and making false claims rarely helps get a parent custody. Usually just the opposite happens. In fact, mothers are often warned by their attorneys that if they report abuse, even with substantial evidence, they will lose custody. Many mothers are even staying with violent fathers because they fear losing custody if they report abuse and then the children would be alone with the abuser.
What is common is judges dismissing and covering up evidence of abuse and wrongly finding mothers to be making false allegations due to vindictiveness and a desire to "alienate" the children from their father. This is so common that there are books written on it and research studies confirming this phenomenon.
This is a very serious situation because after the judge deems the mother to be making false allegations, (when they are real), the children are then given to the abuser or molester. The children suffer immensely for the rest of their childhood. And Equal Parenting makes it even harder to protect children.
The movie creators assert that child abuse cases should be handled in criminal court, but everyone knows that D.A.'s hate cases against violent fathers and decline them using the high criminal burden for justification.
Glenn Sacks is seen and quoted here. He is a leader of the Fathers' Rights movement so his opinion is not objective.
False child abuse claims (otherwise known as "alienation) are NOT common and making false claims rarely helps get a parent custody. Usually just the opposite happens. In fact, mothers are often warned by their attorneys that if they report abuse, even with substantial evidence, they will lose custody. Many mothers are even staying with violent fathers because they fear losing custody if they report abuse and then the children would be alone with the abuser.
What is common is judges dismissing and covering up evidence of abuse and wrongly finding mothers to be making false allegations due to vindictiveness and a desire to "alienate" the children from their father. This is so common that there are books written on it and research studies confirming this phenomenon.
This is a very serious situation because after the judge deems the mother to be making false allegations, (when they are real), the children are then given to the abuser or molester. The children suffer immensely for the rest of their childhood. And Equal Parenting makes it even harder to protect children.
The movie creators assert that child abuse cases should be handled in criminal court, but everyone knows that D.A.'s hate cases against violent fathers and decline them using the high criminal burden for justification.
Glenn Sacks is seen and quoted here. He is a leader of the Fathers' Rights movement so his opinion is not objective.
In only 1% of the total cases were children judged to have advanced a fictitious allegation.
Jones, D. P. H., and J. M. McGraw: Reliable and Fictitious Accounts of Sexual Abuse to Children.Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2, 27-45, 1987.
http://leadershipcouncil.org/1/res/csa-acc.html
Women and children make deliberately false allegations of abuse between one and two percent of the time, but the court decisions support the myth that such deliberate false allegations are common....Research demonstrates that allegations of domestic violence and child abuse make women less likely to obtain custody. We can’t know that an individual case was improperly decided without careful review of the case, but we know the frequency of outcomes that give custody to alleged abusers cannot possibly be based on objective facts.
http://www.nomas.org/node/168
The “fathers’ rights” movement and cottage industry that supports abusive fathers are permeated with the belief that most abuse allegations made by mothers are false. This is really based on ideology and assumption because there is no valid research to support it. PAS is based on this assumption. Significantly, the Saunders’ study (from the U.S. Department of Justice) found that professionals with inadequate training tended to believe the myth that women frequently make false allegations and unscientific alienation theories. So when their propagandists encourage courts to disbelieve mothers’ complaints they are demonstrated their lack of training and qualifications.
Nicholas Bala led one of the leading studies about false allegations in the context of custody and in fact it was a study that looked at many other studies. He found that mothers make deliberately false allegations less than two percent of the time. Any “research” with significantly higher numbers reflects the frequency that true allegations of abuse are disbelieved. Interestingly the Bala study found that fathers involved in contested custody are 16 times more likely than mothers to make deliberately false allegations. The common abuser tactics of claiming alienation and claiming mothers lie about their abuse are examples of these false allegations by abusive fathers. In fairness the Bala study is not saying that all men are this dishonest. The study applies only to contested custody and a large majority of these cases involve abusive fathers who feel entitled to use any tactic including false allegations to regain the control over their partner they believe had no right to leave.
At least 40 states and many districts created court-sponsored gender bias commissions. They found that there is widespread gender bias against women and particular woman litigants. Common examples are that mothers are given less credibility than fathers, are held to a higher standard of proof and blamed for the actions of their abuser. These findings help explain why so many true allegations of abuse are disbelieved by the courts.
http://timesupblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/lies-of-fathers-rights-groups.html?spref=fb