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Article: Co-occurring child maltreatment and domestic violence: the judicial imperative to ensure reasonable efforts.(Florida law)
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- Florida Bar Journal
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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When he is beating me, I try not to scream because I do not want my children to hear my cries." In the world of impoverishment and deprivation where so many parties in the dependency court system live, violence is commonplace. Violence in the home, violence in the community, and violence in the school are quotidian events in the lives of the children who constitute our court population.
Five years ago from the dependency bench in Miami-Dade County, the Dependency Court Intervention Program for Family Violence (DCIPFV) was created when it became evident that child welfare professionals had little understanding of the dynamics of domestic violence and the impact ...