Mothers on trial : the battle for children and custody / Phyllis Chesler.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chesler, Phyllis
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, [2011], ©2011.
Edition:Revised and updated second edition.
Subjects:
Custody of children > United States.
Mothers > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Physical Description:xxiii, 488 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A historical overview
  • A contemporary overview
  • What is a "fit" mother or father? : an "unfit" mother or father? : who decides?
  • Do "good enough" mothers still lose custody of their children in North America today? : the results of an original study
  • The "sexual" mother : Anna Karenina today
  • The "uppity" mother
  • The lesbian mother
  • The mother married to a violent man
  • Paternal brainwashing
  • The "voluntarily" noncustodial mother
  • The price of battle : mothers encounter the psychological and economic law
  • The mother-lawyer relationship
  • The mother-judge and father-judge relationships
  • Court-enabled incest in the 1980s and 1990s
  • Court-enabled incest in the twenty-first century
  • Legal torture from 1986 to 2010
  • The international custody situation
  • The fathers' supremacist movement from the 1980s to 2010
  • Contemporary legal trends, part I : joint custody, mediation, incest, and parental alienation
  • Contemporary legal trends, part II : mental illness, gay and lesbian custody surrogacy, and the primary caretaker
  • Mothers' wisdom : philosophical perspectives on having and losing children
  • Mothers' voices, written on the wind : what is a custody battle really about?
  • What to expect when you're expecting a divorce : an interview with divorce lawyer, Susan L. Bender.