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25 Concil. Cts. Rev. iii (1987)

handle is hein.journals/fmlcr25 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL Two Were Chosen to Replace One Stan Cohen and Hugh Mclsaac were selected as co-editors of the Conciliation Courts Review-a tribute to Meyer Elkin, the founding editor of this pioneering journal. The editorial policy will continue to solicit and pub- lish the practical, the philosophical and the poetic. This journal has distinguished itself by being the first to publish articles on joint custody, mediation, divorce reform and an occasional children's poem. This focus will continue. We will also expand the focus to other issues, as well: support, legal representation, evaluation, linkage to the juvenile court, allegations of abuse, do- mestic violence to meet the needs of our interdisciplinary, court-connected audience. One feature to be added, beginning with this issue, is the publication of signifi- cant court opinions and a summary of legislative devel- opments around the world. Another feature of this journal has been its interna- tional scope. In a crowded planet, we must learn from one another. We will continue to solicit and publish articles from around the world. The editorial board will have a special international section. It will help keep everyone informed of developments worldwide and so- licit articles from all of the far-flung places where a concern exists for the pursuit of a more perfect system. The editorial board will be expanded to strengthen interdisciplinary representation. This board, composed of judges, attorneys, mental health professionals, evalu- ators who have made significant contributions to the field, will provide a blind peer review for all submitted articles. They will be an outstanding group, who repre- sent the best of our profession. We also consider every- one who reads this journal a member of our Editorial Board. We need your ideas, your thoughts and your critical analysis. Welcome to the garden of ideas. From the boy from Brooklyn, who nursed this journal for 25 years from the grass growing in the concrete of a city street to a luxuri- ant garden, the baton has been passed to the two of us, and we see our duty to make this garden continue to grow. Meyer Elkin In Transition In 1972, eons ago in terms of the family, the British Columbia Bar, disturbed about family law and its practice, organized a joint conference with Family Court counsellors and other mental health professionals. We invited Judge Victor Baum and Meyer Elkin. Of Judge Baum, an AFCC past-President, more should be said- of his accomplishments, his scholar- ship and his humanity. Mike Elkin closed the proceedings. His eloquence we all know. He introduced us to a way and a language with which to address the problems: Parents are Forever, Close the Book Gently and so on. It was vintage Elkin. We came away better practitioners and better people. The ripples of his talk-it was not a speech-still lap upon the practice in British Columbia. It is not that there was an immediate transformation. The transfor- mation is still going on. The millennium of a benign family policy and family practice remains a distant goal, here as elsewhere. It is that Mike set us a goal towards which we continue to strive. Mike Elkin, long ago, in this one small settlement on the edge of the rainforest stimulated and inspired us- and he still does. But not just here. What is truly remark- able is that his inspiration, his practical humanity, have permeated the whole of the English speaking world and beyond it and in so doing fundamentally changed not only the practice but society itself. Mike truly says: ...future historians will record this revo- lutionary movement (the Conciliation Court movement) as one of the most significant social movements of the Twentieth Century. Most amazing of all is that these changes have been brought about by a very small group of caring dedicated per- sons from the law and the behavioral sciences.. .As a group of pioneers, they have forever changed the process of divorce, social attitudes and public pol- icy regarding families of divorce... (He) is the only person alive who has been deeply and continually involved in the growth and development of this rev- olutionary movement from the very be- ginning... The Review, which Mike established and edited for 25 years is a significant part of his still incomplete legacy. He made it unique among professional journals. iii CONCILIATION COURTS REVIEW/VOLUME 25, NUMBER 1/JUNE 1987

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