Amy Neustein, Michael Lesher

Gebundenes Buch

From Madness to Mutiny

Why Mothers Are Running from the Family Courts - And What Can Be Done about It

Beschreibung

From Madness to Mutiny offers an overview of family court malfunction and the parental mutiny that results from it. The authors outline the legal landscape that makes the madness possible and discuss ways to reform the family courts.

Autor

Amy Neustein, PhD, is an independent scholar and an award-winning author/editor of 16 academic books, which have been reviewed in leading journals and cited in the New York Times and Newsweek. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Speech Technology (SpringerNature), and was featured in 2018 in Women in STEM as part of the UN campaign to recognize women who edit scientific publications. She edits three academic book series in speech technology and text mining and has contributed more than 200 opinion editorials to major papers such as The Hill, Newsweek, Jerusalem Post, City Journal (Manhattan Institute), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Baltimore Sun, and Women's eNews. Her letters to the editor have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Washington Times. Her academic work has earned 1,532 citations as reported by Academia.edu. Michael Lesher, JD, Esq, is a private attorney specializing in protective parent cases and in appellate law. He has argued successfully before the New York State Court of Appeals in a landmark Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case. He also argued before the federal appeals court in a child sex abuse survivor case. He has been quoted a number of times in the New York Law Journal for his efforts to help incest survivors seek justice, and for his penetrating analyses of closed systems that perpetuate cover-ups of child sexual abuse in religious communities. He has been invited to write opinion pieces for publications such as the Forward and the New York Post. His investigative reporting on criminally dysfunctional systems has appeared in muckraking papers such as the Village Voice and other news outlets.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197661222
• ISBN-10: 019766122X
• Artikelnr.: 68051428