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Parental Conflict Prevention Programs And The Unified Family Court: A Public Health Perspective, Andrew Schepard
Parental Conflict Prevention Programs And The Unified Family Court: A Public Health Perspective, Andrew Schepard
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The thesis of this article is that every unified family court should develop a prevention plan to help parents reduce conflict arising out of divorce and separation. A coherent prevention strategy should become a fundamental criteria for distinguishing high-quality family courts from those that do not serve their publics as well. Models of useful pro-grams already exist and can be incorporated into a court's prevention plan. Judges, legislators, lawyers, mental health professionals, and child advocates should insist that they are.
Section Two of this article describes the problems facing courts, parents, and children resulting from divorce and separation in terms …