Wings for Justice

Educates and encourages survivors to help them protect their children's constitutional rights in the family court system.

How Many Children Are Court -Ordered Into Unsupervised Contact With an Abusive Parent After Divorce?

Disorder-in-the-Courts

The Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence

 Joyanna Silberg, PhD, Executive Vice President

According to a conservative estimate by experts at the Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence (LC), more than 58,000 children a year are ordered into unsupervised contact with physically or sexually abusive parents following divorce in the United States. This is over twice the yearly rate of new cases of childhood cancer….

 http://www.leadershipcouncil.org/1/med/PR3.html