"Empty Home for the Holidays: Mothers Who Can’t See Their Children Blame Broken Family Court System"
Highlights Joan Meier, Danielle Pollack, and the National Family Violence Law Center.
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"‘Women Are Routinely Discredited’: How Courts Fail Mothers and Children Who Have Survived Abuse"
Joan Meier is quoted in The Guardian about how mothers accusing their...
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Professor Meier appears in "Allen v. Farrow," a new four-part HBO series documenting the accusation of sexual abuse against actor Woody Allen and the aftermath that followed. In episodes 3 and 4, Professor Meier sheds light on the strategies used by abusers, the "alienation" label often used to deny women's and children's abuse claims, and what is going on in family courts today. Her research, based at GW's National Family Violence Law Center, also provides much of the background for the film.