商品簡介
Dabbagh, a Virginia Supreme Court family mediator who specializes in cross-border child custody disputes and whose own daughter was abducted and taken to the Middle East by her ex-husband, examines laws, civil records, newspapers, and case files of parental kidnapping from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century to unravel the local and social factors involved and reveal external influences that have shaped American culture and family. She reviewed about 1400 domestic and international cases of kidnapping, interviewed recovery agents, children, law enforcement officers, parents, lawyers, and government officials, and includes case examples and the text of several laws. She discusses the advent of child custody laws, government regulation of the family in the progressive era, marriage laws and bicultural families, abduction during times of war or in military families, the work of recovery agents, international kidnappings and the role of nationalism, the role of domestic violence and child abuse, law enforcement responses, reunification, prevention, and policy issues. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Maureen Dabbagh is a Virginia Supreme Court Family Mediator specializing in cross-border child custody disputes. She has been providing expert testimony in court on the issue of parental kidnapping since 1997, in the U.S. and in Europe. Her own three-year-old daughter was abducted from the United States and taken to the Middle East by her Syrian ex-husband. Mother and daughter had no communication for 17 years. In 2010, the two were reunited.
