Tag: Office of Children’s Issues

China Syndrome: What’s Political Economy Got To Do With Japanese International Child Abduction?

November 21, 2011

As President Obama returned Sunday from a trip to Asia that was filled with signs that the United States plans to be a counterweight to Beijing’s growing influence in that region, Mitt Romney and other Republican candidates have stepped up their denunciation of China’s trade practices, casting the country as predatory and a culprit for … More China Syndrome: What’s Political Economy Got To Do With Japanese International Child Abduction?

Situational Hostility of a Japanese State-Sanctioned Child Abduction

November 21, 2011

Distress crept up hard this week, and I’ve learned that no amount of preparation can match the psyche, blow for blow, when it comes to Rui’s abduction to and by  Japan. I cannot mourn him because that implies resignation. I am not now, nor will I allow myself the luxury of becoming resigned,  nor will … More Situational Hostility of a Japanese State-Sanctioned Child Abduction

Child Abduction and Denial of Access Are Masked as Custody Determination in Japan

November 6, 2011

If, in a science fiction tale that takes place in a surreality full of excessive, ominous foreboding and half-visible appearances, 4000 jumping, running, frolicking children suddenly vanished from the playgrounds in your city’s neighborhood parks,  leaving startlingly empty desks in school classrooms, bunk beds instantly voided of their giggling inhabitants, PJ flannels dangling unused over … More Child Abduction and Denial of Access Are Masked as Custody Determination in Japan