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The impact of divorce on families can be devastating, especially the collateral damage to children "caught in the middle." A hallmark trait of high-conflict divorce litigation is the power struggle that results when both parties place the child in a “tug-of-war” position.
What further mucks the waters of divorce is when one parent has even remote ties to another country. We find that one of the elements of retaliation against parents who win cases against child protective services is that Child Protective Service Agencies are able to have a parent with even remote connections to another country – even when that parent is an American Citizen deported from the United States. We have witnessed the deportation of these parents summarily deported without any due process procedure.
Children already experience devastating damage as pawn in a power play. Evidence suggests that children further suffer when their parents are deported, when they have no control over when or if they may see their parents again. Lawyers and judges throughout the country involved in divorce work, spearheaded by the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), are looking to mitigate the negative impact on children. But there exists little accurate, deep diagnostic understanding of the family dynamics, or accurate psychosocial diagnostics relevant to the consequences to children from fractured families.
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