Judges and Domestic Violence: Recent Episodes
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The Centering Children Series are discussions with child psychology experts on helping children exposed to domestic violence heal and thrive and this episode is focused on the issues and challenges facing family courts in cases that involve fathers who use domestic violence.
Dr. Peter Jaffe and Dr. Linda Baker from the Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children at the University of Western Ontario discuss the impact of domestic violence on children in the first podcast of the Centering Children Series facilitated by Aaron Polkey, Staff Attorney with Futures Without Violence and hosted by the National Judicial Institute on Domestic Violence.
*Transcript available by request
Resilience is the child’s process of navigating through risk or adversity, drawing on resources that are both internal to the child and those that surround the child, to support healthy adaptation, recovery, and better live trajectories. This podcast goes more into this how it relates to children in family court cases and situations of domestic violence.
*Transcript available upon request.
One of the most challenging issues for judges and court-related professionals to work through are allegations of domestic violence and alienation in parenting disputes – often one parent is raising allegations of domestic violence and the other parents responds that the allegations are false or exaggerated in an attempt to undermine their relationship with the children. This podcast delves more into these issues.
*Transcript available upon request.