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- From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick)
- Newsgroups: alt.child-support
- Subject: Re: Something for nothing
- Keywords: child-support, visitation
- Message-ID: <5BkuXB2w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 20:34:27 GMT
- References: <C1BnvI.B7p@cs.psu.edu>
- Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA
- Lines: 52
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- beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
-
- > gslars@staff.tc.umn.edu (Greg Larson) writes:
- >
- > >Of course, there are cases where fathers exhibit violence against
- > >their wife or children, so in those cases visitations must be restricted
- > >or eliminated alltogether. (And please don't infer that I suspect
- > >you to be a violent sort of person.)
- >
- > Yes, and an equal number of women exhibit violence against their
- > children, so in those cases custody and visitation by women must
- > be restricted or eliminated altogether, right?
-
- I ran across this while doing some file searches the other day. It's kind
- of interesting. These are for the year 1990, and doesn't seems to give all
- of the reports. More on this below.
-
- What's startling is the total of cases: 982 for one year...
- I sure hope these are statewide and not county.
-
-
- 1 2 3 4 5 6
- Verified Case ......................... 144 091 177 159 133 278
- Terminations ......................... 061 020 101 006 040 065
- Foster Care ......................... 022 039 018 013 033 011
- Guardianships ......................... 052 009 055 020 026 034
- Returns ......................... 009 023 003 120 034 168
-
- Category Definition
-
- 1: Males 15-20 Verified Cases consist of physical abuse to
- 2: Males 21-25 biological offspring which required hospital-
- 3: Males 26-up ization on more than 3 occasions.
-
- 4: Females 15-20 Terminations are where the parental rights were
- 5: Females 21-25 revoked. Foster Care is semi-permanent placement
- 6: Females 26-up of the children. Guardianships are temporary
- placements (18 mo. or less). Returns are where
- the child was returned to the care of the parent.
-
- This *seems* to indicate that incidence of female perpetrated abuse is about
- 5-30% greater than male perpetrated abuse. These figures don't _appear_ to
- take into account whether there was more than one child in the home or not,
- and only deals with cases where intervention by the Juvenile Court system
- was invoked. So cases from divorce and/or non-parent abuses are absent. CPS
- only cases (cases which didn't come to court) are also apparently absent.
- What I find a bit disturbing is the breakdowns --how the courts react to men
- versus women in these cases.
-
- ---
- Bob Kirkpatrick <bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us>
- Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA
-