States must reform a system that too often awards custody to the abusive parent
(Christian Science Monitor)
Wendy Murphy’s open letter to Whoopi Goldberg
Ms. Murphy wonders why Whoopi Goldberg means when she said that while Roman Polanski committed rape, it wasn’t “rape rape”.
Press release Repressed Memory challenge is itself challenged
Two years after two Harvard psychiatrists published a controversial paper on repressed memory, Brown University political scientist Ross Cheit challenges the paper’s integrity and its implications suggesting that it contained misrepresentations of the state of the science regarding memory for trauma.
Cheit has additional information and examples at his website http://www.recoveredmemory.org
Several members of the LC board contribute to new book Tempest in the Temple: Jewish Communities and Child Sex Scandals which exposes the hidden problem of sexual abuse in Jewish communities.
The book includes a chapter titled “Out of the Jewish Closet: Facing the Hidden Secrets of Child Sex Abuse – And the Damage Done to Victims” by LC board members Joyanna Silberg and Stephanie Dallam. Read a review.
The Report on Physical Punishment in the United States What Research Tells Us About Its Effects on Children
synthesized 100 years of research on physical punishment and found little evidence that physical punishment improves children’s behavior in the long term. Instead, there is substantial research evidence that physical punishment makes it more, not less, likely that children will be defiant and aggressive in the future.
Domestic Abuse Myths:
Five mistakes we make when we talk about Rihanna and Chris Brown’s relationship