Newsweek’s September 25th article “Fighting Over the Kids: Battered spouses take aim at a controversial custody strategy” ([1] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14870310/site/newsweek) attempted to sell the American public an impossible theory: abusive fathers are successfully winning custody of children by claiming that the mother alienated the children from them.The article highlights the case of Genia Shockome, who lost custody to the father in her divorce. A study of case facts reveals that the judge made the correct decision. ([2] http://glennsacks.com/enewsletters/enews_9_20_06.htm)

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