MANY YEARS AFTER THE PARENTAL ABDUCTION |
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| Authors: | Geoffrey L. Greif |
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| Affiliation: | Geoffrey L. Greif, DSW, is an associate dean and professor at the School of Social Work, University of Maryland. He is the coauthor of "When Parents Kidnap" (1993), "Out of Touch: When Parents and Children Lose Contact After Divorce" (1997), and many other articles on parental kidnapping and divorce. |
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| Abstract: | Little longitudinal data are available on what happens to families in which there has been a parental abduction. This article reports on information on 48 families who have been followed for a number of years after the recovery of a missing child. It focuses on questions relevant to the courts: the use of mediation services preabduction, contact between the abductor and the children and the abductor and the searching parent, the payment of child support and restitution for the search, the legal ramifications to the abductor, and the preparations parents took to prevent another abduction. |
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