Parental Kidnapping in America

Table of Contents

Preface 1
Introduction 3

1. Parental Abduction: A Timeless Tradition 7
2. The Progressive Era and the Family 27
3. Culture, Blood and Borders 43
4. The Military, War, and Parental Kidnapping 62
5. Religion: Motivation for Abduction 67
6. Heroes and Outlaws 83
7. Nationalism and The Hague 92
8. Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, and Alienation 107
9. Law Enforcement and Parental Kidnapping 129
10. Reunification 136
11. Prevention 145
12. Politics of Abduction 155
13. Evolution of an Epidemic 161

Appendix: Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act 175
Bibliography 183
Index 197