Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
Dawn Dumont Walker was released on bail last week after being charged with parental abduction and public mischief. Why? Because she created false identities for herself and her son, then took him across the border from Saskatchewan, where they lived, Continue reading Running for their lives
There are a few themes in family law that just won’t go away, no matter how often and thoroughly they are debunked and dismissed. Parental alienation is one, made infamous by psychiatrist Richard Gardner more than 30 years ago. It Continue reading The presumption that just won’t go away
When seven-year-old Sarah Jackson headed off to spend time with her father in mid-November, she and her mother assumed she would be back at the end of the scheduled visitation time. Instead, her father fled with her because, unlike her Continue reading Courts & vaccines for kids
A lot of changes are needed to make the family law/court system work for survivors of family violence and their children. One of the first is for the system to stop treating violence within families as though it is a Continue reading What about the men?