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Extending Statutes Of Limitations For Victims Of Child Sexual Abuse Based On The Developmental Model And International Law, Rebecca E. Lowe

Rebecca E Lowe

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Kidnapped From That Land Ii: A Comparison Of Two Raids To Save The Children From Polygamy, Linda F. Smith

Linda F. Smith

In the spring on 2008 America watched as over 400 children were removed from their polygamist parents on the Yearning for Zion Ranch in rural west Texas. That raid was eerily reminiscent of the Short Creek Raid of 1953, meant to rescue the children from the same polygamist group in Arizona and Utah. This article compares and contrasts the two raids in light of changes to child protection law in the intervening years. Despite advances in our understanding of child development and in our respect for constitutional rights, the Texas raid repeated and compounded the mistakes of the Short Creek …

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Family Law Armageddon: The Story Of Morgan V. Foretich, Leslie J. Harris

Leslie J. Harris

This book chapter tells the story of the contempt case brought against Elizabeth Morgan, a Washington, D.C., doctor imprisoned for her failure to produce her daughter for extended visitation with the ex-husband she accused of sexual abuse. The chapter sets the stage for the proceeding in terms of the shift in custody law in the mid-eighties from the maternal presumption to a preference for shared parenting and the discovery of and almost immediate backlash against allegations of childhood sexual abuse. It also details Morgan's parents' flight with the child to New Zealand and provides an update of what has happened …