From Madness to Mutiny
Subtitle: Why Mothers Are Running from the Family Courts -- and What Can Be Done about It (Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, & Law)
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Published: April 13, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781584654629
Subjects: Child abuse; Child welfare; Family welfare; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Domestic relations courts; Social Science; United States; Sociology; USA; Mothers; Family Law - General; Social Science / General; Child sexual abuse; General
Description: "In this book, sociologist Amy Neustein and attorney Michael Lesher examine the serious dysfunction of the nation's family courts - a dysfunction that too often results in the courts' failure to protect the people they were designed to help. Specifically, the authors chronicle cases in which mothers who believe their children have been sexually abused by their fathers are disbelieved, ridiculed, or punished for trying to protect them. All too often the mother, in such a case, is deemed the unstable parent, and her children are removed from her care to be placed in foster care or even with the father credibly accused of abusing them." "From Madness to Mutiny offers an overview of family court malfunction and the parental mutiny that results from it. The authors outline the new legal landscape that makes the madness possible and show how the system has failed to react to severe criticism from media and legislators. And they discuss ways to reform the family courts, with the goal of transforming them from instruments of punishment to true institutions of justice."--BOOK JACKET.