Easy Answer

Posted in Family on Thursday March 04 2010 @ 7:56pm

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Slate's Mary Adkins asks why court mediation programs don't take domestic violence cases: Breaking Up Is Hard Enough to Do, Slate (March 3, 2010).

Answer: because that's the way the advocacy community wanted it. Some programs had a very tough start back in the day due to this very dilemma. This was so even when mediators argued that mediators were probably better at handling extremely conflicted parties and dysfunctional dynamics than many judges were. Nevertheless, every family mediation rule we've ever seen includes language from the advocates keeping victims out of the process.

So, perhaps it is time to revisit this question. If the answer changes, then every single family mediation rule, statute, etc., will have to be rewritten.

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