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involved families unless and until a collection of empirical, ethical, and
practical hurdles are overcome, not the least of which is the tremendous
practical difficulty associated with recruiting and collecting data from
highly contentious, court-involved parties whose every word is subject
to discovery, deposition, and cross-examination (Garber, 2009). In fact,
although the potential value of attachment measurement tools in child-
centered forensic matters has been declared loudly (e.g., Condie, 2003;
Kelly & Ward, 2002; Lamb & Kelly, 2001; Riggs, 2003), the extant
research suggests that family law professionals generally disregard the
quality of parent-child attachment in favor of a focus on the extent of
the inter-parental conflict when making custody arguments (Hinds &
Bradshaw, 2005).
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