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Fall, 2001COMMENT: ABUSIVE PARENTS AND PHYSICAL PLACEMENT AWARDS: WHAT MORE COULD WISCONSIN DO TO PROTECT ITS CHILDREN?

Copyright (c) 2001 Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Wisconsin Women's Law Journal

COMMENT: ABUSIVE PARENTS AND PHYSICAL PLACEMENT AWARDS: WHAT MORE COULD WISCONSIN DO TO PROTECT ITS CHILDREN?

Fall, 2001

16 Wis. Women's L.J. 287

Author

Michele Westerlund*

Excerpt



I. Introduction
 
The following excerpts, reprinted in the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence Newsletter, are three of the many entries in Barbara Steele's journal that depict her struggles with her abusive former spouse, Allen Steele, over sharing physical placement of their children.


 
Wednesday, March 1, 1995

At 8:30 p.m. Allen is pounding on our door. Julie runs to her room. Jane puts her hands over her ears. Michael wakes up. I have covered the front door window so that he cannot look into the house anymore. I tell him to leave ... Allen has requested in writing to have Jane and Julie the week of March 8. I will not let Allen have the children any more extra days than the court order says. Allen has been telling the children terrible lies about me, screaming at me in front of the children and making me bring the police into our lives almost every day. Allen is constantly harassing and calling my parents names in front of the children... . I feel it is in the best interest of the children to be with Allen as little as possible... . I would let Allen have Julie and Jane these extra
 days if I thought the girls would be happy and safe and if it would help the situation... . I don't think Allen has a job anymore, this is the fourth week he has not gone to work...

... .

Sunday, December 31, 1995

I receive a telephone call from ...
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