Battered Women, Their Children, and International Law: The Unintended Consequences of the Hague Child Abduction Convention

by Jeffrey L. Edleson and Taryn Lindhorst

Ending a bad personal relationship is extremely complicated when the relationship is transnational. Women whose partners are abusive often turn to family members for assistance. When this means leaving one nation for another with one's children, Hague Convention (1980) international treaties come into play. All too often, the mother is charged with child abduction and forced to return the children to an abusive father. Drawing on a series of true-life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555538037
• ISBN13: 9781555538033
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher