Terri Stoddard: 'Let's stop this PSA from airing'

Article here, as follows:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqfp2aKj02w

According to an email I received these PSAs are running in Georgia. I've written to every TV station there informing them that these PSAs are not accurate. If you'd like to do the same, here are some of the addresses (the rest had fill-in forms on their websites).

Claim: Abusive fathers are successful in winning sole child custody about 70% of the time.

Analysis: This figure appears to be an embellishment of a claim in a 1989 report by the Gender Bias Committee of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court which claimed that in 70% of cases, fathers (not abusive fathers) were successful in winning some form of child custody, though not necessarily physical custody or sole custody.

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