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33 Can. J. Fam. L. 301 (2020)
Does Domestic Violence Disappear from Parental Alienation Cases? Five Lessons from Quebec for Judges, Scholars, and Policymakers

handle is hein.journals/cajfl33 and id is 320 raw text is: DOES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DISAPPEAR FROM PARENTAL ALIENATION CASES? FIVE LESSONS FROM QUEBEC FOR JUDGES, SCHOLARS, AND POLICYMAKERS Suzanne Zaccour* The theory of parental alienation-which asserts that children who rej ect one parent are brainwashed by the other parent-has often been used to punish caring mothers and grant custody to dangerous fathers. The legal community's quick infatuation with this concept has sparked fiery debates between its proponents and domestic violence scholars. My research contributes to this urgent conversation by shedding new light on the role of domestic violence in parental alienation cases. I observe how series of cases involving the same family deal with the issue of domestic violence. This method reveals a worrisome disappearing act: as families repeatedly interact with the justice system, domestic violence tends to leave the picture. The result? A distortion: most women accused of parental alienation are victims of conjugal violence, yet the jurisprudence barely addresses this issue. The disappearance of domestic violence creates the impression that it is the exception, rather than the norm, in parental alienation cases. Doctoral candidate in law at Oxford University; LLM (University of Cambridge), LLM (University of Toronto), BCL & LLB (McGill University); 2019-2020 judicial law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada. suzannezaccour.com

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