Mothers on trial
Subtitle: the battle for children and custody
By: Phyllis Chesler
Edition: Rev. and updated 2nd ed.
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9781556529993
Subjects: Custody of children; Legal status, laws; Mothers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-401) and index.
Table of contents: title: A historical overview; title: A contemporary overview; title: What is a "fit" mother or father? : an "unfit" mother or father? : who decides?; title: Do "good enough" mothers still lose custody of their children in North America today? : the results of an original study; title: The "sexual" mother : Anna Karenina today; title: The "uppity" mother; title: The lesbian mother; title: The mother married to a violent man; title: Paternal brainwashing; title: The "voluntarily" noncustodial mother; title: The price of battle : mothers encounter the psychological and economic law; title: The mother-lawyer relationship; title: The mother-judge and father-judge relationships; title: Court-enabled incest in the 1980s and 1990s; title: Court-enabled incest in the twenty-first century; title: Legal torture from 1986 to 2010; title: The international custody situation; title: The fathers' supremacist movement from the 1980s to 2010; title: Contemporary legal trends, part I : joint custody, mediation, incest, and parental alienation; title: Contemporary legal trends, part II : mental illness, gay and lesbian custody surrogacy, and the primary caretaker; title: Mothers' wisdom : philosophical perspectives on having and losing children; title: Mothers' voices, written on the wind : what is a custody battle really about?; title: What to expect when you're expecting a divorce : an interview with divorce lawyer, Susan L. Bender.