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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.
List of contents
- Foreword by Margaret B. Drew
- Preface by Robert Geffner
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: What Has Changed in Two Decades, and What Remains the Same?
- Introduction
- Part I. Family Courts: The Problem
- Chapter 1: An Overview of Family Court Madness--and Mothers' Mutiny
- Chapter 2: The New Legal Landscape
- Part II. Observations in Depth
- Chapter 3: Research Methods
- Chapter 4: Robed Rage
- Chapter 5: Lawless Law Guardians
- Chapter 6: Anti-Social Services
- Chapter 7: Mental Health Quackery
- Chapter 8: Mothers and Madness: The "Aftershocks" of the System
- Part III. Changes
- Chapter 9: "Rebirthing" the Family Court System
- Chapter 10: Reforming the Courts
- Chapter 11: Reforming the Court Auxiliaries
- Notes
- References
About the author
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 1,499 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.
