where the writers are A review of "Mothers on Trial" by Phyllis
Chesler Amazon.com Amazon.com Powell's Books Powell's Books  Not
since slavery in the USA were mothers punished by having their
children taken away from them. Yet, in family courts all across
America, judges and quasi-judicial officers of the court do just
that: children who are abused or molested by their fathers are
removed from their primary-care good mothers and are placed in
the hands of their molesting fathers.  How this scandal can go
on for decades with hardly any change, without any public
outcry, and without any protest from human rights' activists is
due to the fact that outsiders to the gutter of our family
courts' justice simply refuse to believe it.  In her revised and
updated milestone fact-filled book, "Mothers on Trial," Phyllis
Chesler fights to save thousands of children from becoming yet
another generation of victims of a court system that betrays
them time and again. She points out that while adult women often
recount childho