"These Florida mothers warned family courts about abuse. Now they can’t speak to their children”
The South Florida Sun Sentinel quoted Joan Meier on family court orders that forbid mothers from contact with their children.
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"Oregon prosecutors said she didn’t protect her baby. She says she was surviving abuse.”
Jefferson Public Radio, from a story written for InvestigateWest, quoted Joan Meier.
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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.