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Family Court Statistics
58,000
An estimated 58,000 US children are court ordered into the care of an abusing parent each and every year.
989
989 US children have been murdered by a divorcing or separating parent in the past decade.
2x
Abusive fathers are more than 2x as likely to seek sole physical custody as non-violent fathers.
39%
Overall, courts only believe mothers' abuse claims 39% of the time
2x
Abusive fathers are more than 2x as likely to seek sole physical custody as non-violent fathers.
23%
When fathers respond in court to abuse claims with an alienation cross-claim, only 23% of mothers are believed.
50%
In cases where one parent accused the other of abuse and the other of cross-claims alientation, mothers alleging abuse lost custody 50% of the time.
41%
In simple abuse cases mothers reporting abusive fathers are believed less than half the time on average (41%).
81%
In custody cases where mother's and childrent report the father's sexual abuse of the child, the court sides with the father 81% of the time.
73%
The murder is the biological father of the child 73% of the time.
21%
Courts believe mothers only 21% of the time for claims of physical abuse.
97%
Women's Aid (2021) found that, of the perpetrators convicted for coercive and controlling behavior in England and Wales over a year-long period, 97% were male.