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🗓️ 29 November 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Families are under attack by our family court system. Two parents say their children were put in harm’s way when the judge placed them with the abusive parent. Nearly every six days in the US, a child is killed amid a custody dispute. Families are under attack by our family court system. The big problem is these custody cases are often siloed from the criminal court system and the family judge is deciding in a vacuum. Twenty-two-year-old RJ says he and his siblings were in a 15-year tug of war between his mother and father. RJ says he was collateral damage of a broken system that failed him. RJ’s mother says the judge in her case was biased and sent her to jail several times. Jason says his 8-year custody battle over his daughter nearly killed him but he would do anything for his daughter. Former Los Angeles Criminal prosecutor and co-anchor of News on Merit Street, Loni Coombs, went on assignment to find out if Lady Justice is failing families throughout America. Dr. Phil, Loni, Michigan Circuit Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilina who presides over family and criminal court cases, and psychiatrist and former medical director for Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services talk about why the family court is the most dangerous court in the US and what couples can do to avoid it for the sake of their children.
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0:00.0 | We're talking about something that could affect half of America. |
0:04.0 | That means you. |
0:05.0 | Hundreds of thousands of children are winding up at the hands of their abusers, and family courts are missing this. |
0:12.0 | There are a lot of judges who've never practiced family law who take the bench. |
0:16.0 | You need expert eyes on these children. |
0:18.0 | A judge is not a doctor. |
0:19.0 | The judges listen? |
0:20.0 | Not a lot of the time they don't. |
0:21.3 | Why? They don't want to believe it. And they want to give that parent another chance, but that |
0:25.2 | one chance is when that kid could die. |
0:36.4 | Tonight we're talking about something that could affect half of America. |
0:41.3 | That means you. |
0:44.3 | So listen up because what you learned could change your life and that of the people you love the most. |
0:52.3 | When the traditional family breaks down, |
0:55.1 | everything starts unraveling. |
0:58.0 | Let's look a little deeper at what's happening, |
1:00.7 | starting with some stunning numbers on marriage |
1:03.9 | and family in America. |
1:06.3 | In 1960, at the height of the baby boom, |
1:09.6 | after World War II, 5% of children were born to unwed parents. |
1:14.6 | By 1980, that number tripled, reaching 18%. |
1:19.6 | In 2016, a whopping 40% of children in the U.S. |
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