{"id":140,"date":"2018-06-18T04:49:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2018-06-18T17:02:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T17:02:24","slug":"myth-of-false-allegations-in-divorce-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/18\/myth-of-false-allegations-in-divorce-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth of false allegations in divorce cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 18, 2009<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry post-199 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-october-2009 tag-child-abuse tag-childrens-rights tag-family-court tag-sexual-abuse tag-sexual-molestation\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Here is an\u00a0highly important and informative\u00a0article published in the Spring 1998 issue of Court Review,\u00a0<a title=\"Myth of False Allegations of Sexual Abuse in Divorce Cases\" href=\"http:\/\/www.omsys.com\/mmcd\/courtrev.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Myth of False\u00a0Allegations of Sexual Abuse in Divorce Cases, by Merrilyn McDonald, M.S.W.<\/a>\u00a0Here, Merrilyn McDonald sets forth the facts about the\u00a0widely held \u201cfalse allegations\u201d belief. Somehow, the system appears to align with abusers and become their enabling mechanism. Many continue to battle these issues with the family court system every day.\u00a0We should support and protect, not further punish, innocent victims of abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Here is her summary:<\/p>\n<p>False allegations of sexual abuse in divorce are a rare occurrence. False allegations of sexual abuse in general are rare. Unsubstantiated is not the same as false. Child sexual abuse is a common experience. Child sexual abuse is grossly underreported. There is a belief that allegations of sexual abuse in divorce are epidemic because a number of anecdotal reports of allegations of sexual abuse were repeatedly referenced by various authors without listing the limitations of such reports, creating an image of \u201chard science\u201d that did not exist. Allegations of sexual abuse are more likely to occur in divorce situations and must be taken just as seriously as allegations that arise at any other time. Sexually abused children behave in a manner that is hard for most of us to understand. It is extremely hard for a child to disclose sexual abuse and any child who does so must be seen as extremely brave. Children recant because of pressure or a desire to get their family back. Mothers\u00a0of sexually abused children experience many conflicts and difficulties in our present system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry post-195 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-october-2009 tag-child-abuse tag-child-abuse-prevention tag-childrens-rights tag-family-court tag-parenting\">\n<div class=\"post-meta\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 18, 2009 Here is an\u00a0highly important and informative\u00a0article published in the Spring 1998 issue of Court Review,\u00a0Myth of False\u00a0Allegations of Sexual Abuse in Divorce Cases, by Merrilyn McDonald, M.S.W.\u00a0Here, Merrilyn McDonald sets forth the facts about the\u00a0widely held \u201cfalse allegations\u201d belief. Somehow, the system appears to align with abusers and become their enabling mechanism. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}