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Product Identifiers
PublisherNortheastern University Press
ISBN-101584654627
ISBN-139781584654629
eBay Product ID (ePID)44777329
Product Key Features
Number of Pages316 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFrom Madness to Mutiny : Why Mothers Are Running from the Family Courts -- and What Can Be Done about It
SubjectFamily Law / General, Sociology / General, Gender Studies, Abuse / Child Abuse, Parenting / Motherhood, General, Courts
Publication Year2005
TypeTextbook
AuthorMichael Lesher, Amy Neustein
Subject AreaFamily & Relationships, Law, Social Science
SeriesNortheastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight22.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2005-000916
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"Unusually rich and detailed documentation . . . Amy Neustein and Michael Lesher have produced a searing and profoundly disturbing indictment of family courts in the United States . . . I commend Neustein and Lesher for their major contribution to this struggle."--Violence Against Women, "This book is essential reading for any health or mental health professional or legal advocate for children."--Family Violence and Sexual Assault Bulletin, "There is extraordinary merit in the claims the authors make... [and] many of the reforms, suggested in the concluding three chapters, are worth consideration."--Law and Politics Book Review, ".. [You will find this a hard book to put down, because it is a book that matters."--The Residential (Edgewater, NJ)
Dewey Decimal346.73015026
SynopsisA powerful expose of the family court system's prejudice against mothers trying to protect their sexually abused children., In this astonishing 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. Employing a special form of sociological inquiry known as ethnomethodology, they show how judges, private attorneys, law guardians, child protective service caseworkers and court-appointed mental health experts on a day-to-day basis collaboratively produce a closed and claustrophobic family court setting that makes practical sense to the system's practitioners - but looks like madness to everyone else. They also describe the social interactive work of mothers trapped inside the system. values, these mothers litigate furiously, take their stories to the press, go on hunger strikes, or turn fugitive with their children through a modern-day underground railroad. 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.
LC Classification NumberKF505.5.N48 2005
