The hallmarks of effective and trustworthy forensic work are: 1) even-handed and fair-minded interaction with litigants; 2) collection of data; and 3) interpretation of what has been learned about a family.
Bias in Custody Evaluations
Cognitive sets and assumptions, however formed, create a kind of lens through which data that is gathered on a family is processed and interpreted. And these biases create the very real potential for errors to be made at the stage where the court is being given an evaluator's "bottom line" about a particular child's needs or a certain parent's skills and capacities.
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