by | May 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Delores stands next to a pink rosebush planted by counseling center staff to honor her courage and bravery. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you ~...
by Diane Plappert | Apr 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Cognitive biases are tendencies to make certain decisions or behave in certain ways. Cognitive biases are predictable behavioral or decision patterns that all humans share. Often, these biases use mental shortcuts to make decision-making faster and easier. And these...
by | Apr 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
The latest issue of The Pennsylvania Lawyer magazine features an article by attorney Ashish Joshi, who is a proponent of the so-called “parental alienation defense.” The article includes extensive discussion on the purported merits of parental alienation theory in...
by | Feb 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
An Ohio toddler was killed by her mother,[1] despite child protection workers’ awareness of previous instances of abuse. Ohio courts must hold that agency and its workers responsible for their failures. As outlined in CHILD USA’s amicus curiae brief, found...
by | Feb 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
I just saw the movie Sipe: Sex, Lies, and the Priesthood. It is about Richard Sipe, an expert on the Catholic clergy’s abuse of children. Sipe was a psychologist and a former priest, who used his expertise to help children and to try to hold the church accountable for...
by | Feb 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government and starting CHILD USA five years ago, I was a constitutional law professor at Cardozo School of Law with a chair in public law. Before that, I had the honor and pleasure of...