Eleanor Willemsen and Kristen Marcel, Santa Clara University and School of Psychologie.
- Decision makers must be educated about aspects of child development.
- Best interest and detriment issues must be resolved in terms of the scientific evidence regarding the impact on the child's future development of various alternative scenarios.
Babies are at great risk when their intimate relationships with caregiving parents are disrupted.
When we allow the courts to sever a child's most important relationships while disregarding the attachment literature, we are tolerating a moral wrong.
- Decision makers must be educated about aspects of child development.
- Best interest and detriment issues must be resolved in terms of the scientific evidence regarding the impact on the child's future development of various alternative scenarios.
Babies are at great risk when their intimate relationships with caregiving parents are disrupted.
When we allow the courts to sever a child's most important relationships while disregarding the attachment literature, we are tolerating a moral wrong.
