A Judge’s Guide

RECURRING ISSUES
83 Zorza, supra note 80, at 279.
84 Zorza, supra note 82, at 1115.
85 Id.
86
Research indicates that exposure to domestic violence has negative effects on
children, including depression, withdrawal, somatic distress, aggression, and
delinquency. O’Sullivan, et al., Supervised and Unsupervised Parental Access in
Domestic Violence Cases: Court Orders and Consequences 5, Final Technical Report
submitted to the National Institute of Justice (March 2006); Zorza, supra note
82, at 1116.
87
BROWN, et al., supra note 79, at 110; Mary A. Kernic, et al., Behavioral Problems
Among Children Whose Mothers are Abused by an Intimate Partner, 27 CHILD ABUSE
AND NEGLECT 1231, 1239 (2003).
88
Zorza, supra note 82, at 1116.
89
Dorothy J. Thormaehlen, L.C.S.W.-C. & Eena R. Bass-Feld, M.A., A.T.R.,
C.P.C., Children: The Secondary Victims of Domestic Violence, 43 MD. MEDICAL J.
355 (1994).
90
Zorza, supra note 82, at 1116.
91 THE MAYOR’S DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COORDINATING COMMITTEE (DVCC)
AND THE DVCC WORKGROUP, DV 101/DV 200: A TRAINING FOR DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE PROFESSIONALS 21 (1999).
92 Zorza, supra note 80, at 279.
93 Thormaehlen & Bass-Feld, supra note 89, at 355.
94 Zorza, supra note 80, at 279.
95 Id.
96 Rita Smith & Pamela Coukos, Fairness and Accuracy in Evaluations of Domestic
Violence and Child Abuse in Custody Determinations, THE JUDGE’S J. 40 (Fall 1997).
97 Zorza, supra note 82, at 1116-17.
98
Thormaehlen & Bass-Feld, supra note 89, at 356-57 (developed by SADVC, Inc.,
Baltimore County).
99 Lundy Bancroft and Jay G. Silverman, Assessing Risk to Children From Batterers 1,
ABA COMMISSION ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE QUARTERLY E-NEWSLETTER
(July 2006)(available online at
http://www.abanet.org/domviol/enewsletter/vol4/assessingrisktochildren.pdf).
100 Id. at 5 – 10.
101 “Physical abuse is only one tactic among many used by batterers to enforce
their control over a victim. Other methods include emotional abuse,
psychological coercion, isolation, economic control, immigration status-related
abuse, sexual assault, and stalking or harassing behavior.” AMERICAN BAR
142 142