The Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence
Dallam. S. J., & Silberg, J. L. (Jan/Feb 2006).
The Leadership Council is a nonprofit scientific organization concerned about the welfare of children. We have become increasingly concerned about the legal system’s treatment of victims of family violence during divorce and child custody proceedings. The LC has reviewed documentation from a number of cases in which children were placed in the sole custody of a parent that the child alleges is physically or sexually abusing them. Many of these children were prohibited from any contact or provided only limited contact with the parent seeking to protect the child – despite the fact that this parent had never been found to have harmed the child. In most cases the child’s allegations were quite credible….