Perspectives on Parental Alienation, Child Custody and Dispute Resolution Systems Contested child custody provides many challenges for alternate dispute resolution. With no-fault divorce, and a standard for determining custody in light of the child's best interest, judges are besieged with a back...

The female is, as it were, a mutilated…a sort of natural deficiency. It is not appropriate in a female character to be manly or clever. The male is by nature superior and the female inferior." Introduction Domestic violence has been present in our society and an accepted practice of...

It happens in silence, a silence all too terrifying, and it is happening right next door. It is estimated by the FBI that two to four million women get battered each year in the United States and a thousand four hundred of those lives will be lost. Slapping, punching, kicking, choking, biting al...

The topic I chose for the research assignment is children of alcoholics. I chose to focus more on the children that are involved in families of alcoholics rather than on the family as a whole, because I felt there would be too much information. Because I grew up in a stable, relatively normal famil...

Topic Description The topic I chose for the research assignment is children of alcoholics. I chose to focus more on the children that are involved in families of alcoholics rather than on the family as a whole, because I felt there would be too much information. Because I grew up in a stable, re...

Throughout history, domestic violence has been one of the most common types of crime. Society's attitude toward situations involving intentionally violent and controlling behavior against intimate partners is that it is not a social problem. Rather, society believes domestic violence is a...

The conception of what constitutes maltreatment of children and in fact the whole concept of what constitutes a designation of being a "child" has changed over time, like many other societal definitions. The designation of a child as a vulnerable member of society that requires special pro...