Edward Kruk
Biographic Data
| ID | 79553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Kruk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Kruk |
| SIGNATURE | KRUK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7954-0303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Countering Arguments Against Parental Alienation as A Form of Family Violence and Child Abuse
Despite scientific recognition of parental alienation as a form of child maltreatment and family violence, numerous critiques been advanced challenging the concept. A recent UN report concluded that parental alienation is a “pseudo-concept” lacking empirical validity, posing significant dangers to women and children at risk of family violence and abuse. In this article, we present and refute the most common arguments that have been advanced again…
The Scope of the Subject Matter of the Polish Act on the Protection of Animals
The basic legal act in Poland which regulates the issue of humane animal protection is the Act on animal protection of 21 August 1997. Regretfully, due to its numerous shortcomings, such as lack of terminological accuracy and internal consistency, the practical application of this Act often entails serious difficulties. Such difficulties certainly include interpretative doubts related to the current wording of Article 2(1) defining the objective …
Arguments Against a Presumption of Shared Physical Custody in Family Law
The introduction of the “best interests of the child” standard as a legal presumption in family law in the 1970s signaled an important transition away from a maternal preference standard in child custody disputes, toward a recognition of the centrality and importance of both parents in the lives of children after parental separation. Paradoxically, this reform resulted in an increase rather than decrease in court-determined maternal sole custody.…
Parental alienating behaviors
Despite affecting millions of families around the world, parental alienation has been largely unacknowledged or denied by legal and health professionals as a form of family violence. This complex form of aggression entails a parental figure engaging in the long-term use of a variety of aggressive behaviors to harm the relationship between their child and another parental figure, and/or to hurt the other parental figure directly because of their r…
Maternal Attachment, Paternal Overnight Contact, and Very Young Children's Adjustment
We are compelled to respond to Tornello et al. (2013) because of concerns about measures and theory and because some findings of their study were misleadingly presented. Their results, as described in the abstract and DISCUSSION section, were reported in news media aimed at the general public in the United States (Divorce Study, 2013; Hallas, 2013; HealthDay News, 2013b) and overseas (Asian News International, 2013; Furness, 2013), physicians (He…
Social Justice, Spirituality, and Responsibility to Needs
The core of social justice is examined from a spiritual standpoint, beyond dominant rights-based definitions, towards a “responsibility to needs” understanding, and applied to children whose parents are in conflict during the transition to divorce. Building on Simone Weil's definition of justice as, “seeing that no harm comes to another,” it is argued that in the arena of child custody policy and practice, the discernment of spiritual harm and tr…
Collateral Damage
This qualitative study utilizing narrative analysis and grounded theory examines the history and experiences of 14 Canadian women who have lost custody of their children within a legal divorce process. Each woman's storied experience focused on themes of attachment and loss associated with involuntary child absence, legal abuse within the adversarial system, and judgment based on nonconformity to a motherhood ideal; physical violence and emotiona…
Parental and Social Institutional Responsibilities to Children's Needs in the Divorce Transition
A total of 82 separated and divorced fathers were interviewed in a study utilizing thematic analysis to examine fathers' narratives about their divorce experiences, particularly in regard to their relationship with their children, and grounded theory analysis to uncover themes related to fathers' perceptions of their children's needs, and parental and social institutional responsibilities to these needs, during the divorce transition. We found th…
Shared Parental Responsibility
The purpose of this article is twofold. First, our aim is to provide a selective overview and analysis of divorce research in the past five year period (2000-2005), during which important new data on children, families, and divorce have appeared. Much of this data challenges current socio-legal policy and “practice wisdom,” and includes: (1) the emergent perspective of adult children of divorce reflecting upon their experiences and preferences gr…
Power imbalance and spouse abuse in divorce disputes
The issues of spouse abuse, power imbalance, and neutralist versus interventionist styles continue to generate much controversy in the field of family mediation. There remains a paucity of reliable data about the precise nature of the interventions of family mediators in cases of power imbalance and spouse abuse, and the degree to which they incorporate particular items of divorce law and current divorce-related research into their practice in re…
The Disengagement of Paternal Grandparents Subsequent to Divorce
Divorce within a family is a well researched practice phenomenon that has tended to primarily focus on the nuclear family. However, in the family counselling literature there is a lack of a de- tailed examination of the effect of the adult child's divorce on the grandparent-grandchild relationship and other family system levels. In particular, paternal grandparents are viewed as being at high risk for losing contact wilh grandchildren when the ch…
Discontinuity Between Pre- and Post-Divorce Father-Child Relationships
Through a systematic analysis of the link between pre- and post-divorce father-child relationships, this paper examines the issue of non-custodial fathers' loss of contact with their children and families after divorce. A cross-national survey of 80 non-custodial fathers revealed a striking discontinuity between father-child relationships before and after divorce, with those fathers most involved with and attached to their children during the mar…
Child Custody Determination
Parental alienating behaviors
Despite affecting millions of families around the world, parental alienation has been largely unacknowledged or denied by legal and health professionals as a form of family violence. This complex form of aggression entails a parental figure engaging in the long-term use of a variety of aggressive behaviors to harm the relationship between their child and another parental figure, and/or to hurt the other parental figure directly because of their r…
Maternal Attachment, Paternal Overnight Contact, and Very Young Children's Adjustment
We are compelled to respond to Tornello et al. (2013) because of concerns about measures and theory and because some findings of their study were misleadingly presented. Their results, as described in the abstract and DISCUSSION section, were reported in news media aimed at the general public in the United States (Divorce Study, 2013; Hallas, 2013; HealthDay News, 2013b) and overseas (Asian News International, 2013; Furness, 2013), physicians (He…
Parental and Social Institutional Responsibilities to Children's Needs in the Divorce Transition
A total of 82 separated and divorced fathers were interviewed in a study utilizing thematic analysis to examine fathers' narratives about their divorce experiences, particularly in regard to their relationship with their children, and grounded theory analysis to uncover themes related to fathers' perceptions of their children's needs, and parental and social institutional responsibilities to these needs, during the divorce transition. We found th…
Power imbalance and spouse abuse in divorce disputes
The issues of spouse abuse, power imbalance, and neutralist versus interventionist styles continue to generate much controversy in the field of family mediation. There remains a paucity of reliable data about the precise nature of the interventions of family mediators in cases of power imbalance and spouse abuse, and the degree to which they incorporate particular items of divorce law and current divorce-related research into their practice in re…
Child Custody Determination
Discontinuity Between Pre- and Post-Divorce Father-Child Relationships
Through a systematic analysis of the link between pre- and post-divorce father-child relationships, this paper examines the issue of non-custodial fathers' loss of contact with their children and families after divorce. A cross-national survey of 80 non-custodial fathers revealed a striking discontinuity between father-child relationships before and after divorce, with those fathers most involved with and attached to their children during the mar…
Child Custody Determination
The Disengagement of Paternal Grandparents Subsequent to Divorce
Divorce within a family is a well researched practice phenomenon that has tended to primarily focus on the nuclear family. However, in the family counselling literature there is a lack of a de- tailed examination of the effect of the adult child's divorce on the grandparent-grandchild relationship and other family system levels. In particular, paternal grandparents are viewed as being at high risk for losing contact wilh grandchildren when the ch…
Power imbalance and spouse abuse in divorce disputes
The issues of spouse abuse, power imbalance, and neutralist versus interventionist styles continue to generate much controversy in the field of family mediation. There remains a paucity of reliable data about the precise nature of the interventions of family mediators in cases of power imbalance and spouse abuse, and the degree to which they incorporate particular items of divorce law and current divorce-related research into their practice in re…
Shared Parental Responsibility
The purpose of this article is twofold. First, our aim is to provide a selective overview and analysis of divorce research in the past five year period (2000-2005), during which important new data on children, families, and divorce have appeared. Much of this data challenges current socio-legal policy and “practice wisdom,” and includes: (1) the emergent perspective of adult children of divorce reflecting upon their experiences and preferences gr…
Collateral Damage
This qualitative study utilizing narrative analysis and grounded theory examines the history and experiences of 14 Canadian women who have lost custody of their children within a legal divorce process. Each woman's storied experience focused on themes of attachment and loss associated with involuntary child absence, legal abuse within the adversarial system, and judgment based on nonconformity to a motherhood ideal; physical violence and emotiona…
Parental and Social Institutional Responsibilities to Children's Needs in the Divorce Transition
A total of 82 separated and divorced fathers were interviewed in a study utilizing thematic analysis to examine fathers' narratives about their divorce experiences, particularly in regard to their relationship with their children, and grounded theory analysis to uncover themes related to fathers' perceptions of their children's needs, and parental and social institutional responsibilities to these needs, during the divorce transition. We found th…
Social Justice, Spirituality, and Responsibility to Needs
The core of social justice is examined from a spiritual standpoint, beyond dominant rights-based definitions, towards a “responsibility to needs” understanding, and applied to children whose parents are in conflict during the transition to divorce. Building on Simone Weil's definition of justice as, “seeing that no harm comes to another,” it is argued that in the arena of child custody policy and practice, the discernment of spiritual harm and tr…
Maternal Attachment, Paternal Overnight Contact, and Very Young Children's Adjustment
We are compelled to respond to Tornello et al. (2013) because of concerns about measures and theory and because some findings of their study were misleadingly presented. Their results, as described in the abstract and DISCUSSION section, were reported in news media aimed at the general public in the United States (Divorce Study, 2013; Hallas, 2013; HealthDay News, 2013b) and overseas (Asian News International, 2013; Furness, 2013), physicians (He…
Arguments Against a Presumption of Shared Physical Custody in Family Law
The introduction of the “best interests of the child” standard as a legal presumption in family law in the 1970s signaled an important transition away from a maternal preference standard in child custody disputes, toward a recognition of the centrality and importance of both parents in the lives of children after parental separation. Paradoxically, this reform resulted in an increase rather than decrease in court-determined maternal sole custody.…
Parental alienating behaviors
Despite affecting millions of families around the world, parental alienation has been largely unacknowledged or denied by legal and health professionals as a form of family violence. This complex form of aggression entails a parental figure engaging in the long-term use of a variety of aggressive behaviors to harm the relationship between their child and another parental figure, and/or to hurt the other parental figure directly because of their r…
The Scope of the Subject Matter of the Polish Act on the Protection of Animals
The basic legal act in Poland which regulates the issue of humane animal protection is the Act on animal protection of 21 August 1997. Regretfully, due to its numerous shortcomings, such as lack of terminological accuracy and internal consistency, the practical application of this Act often entails serious difficulties. Such difficulties certainly include interpretative doubts related to the current wording of Article 2(1) defining the objective …
Countering Arguments Against Parental Alienation as A Form of Family Violence and Child Abuse
Despite scientific recognition of parental alienation as a form of child maltreatment and family violence, numerous critiques been advanced challenging the concept. A recent UN report concluded that parental alienation is a “pseudo-concept” lacking empirical validity, posing significant dangers to women and children at risk of family violence and abuse. In this article, we present and refute the most common arguments that have been advanced again…
Psychology (11 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (9 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Child custody (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse (3 works)