Best Interest: 7.21.2025

2025 KY DV trends, Men in Ed, IPV male victim paper

Hello!

In this issue:

• Update on domestic violence and family court filings in KY

• Talk to me about male teacher rates

• Celebs who 50/50

• Good mainstream articles on equal parenting

I communicated with Kentucky’s Administrative Offices of the Courts (super-helpful, accessible to you, too), and updated the data on family court filings and domestic violence cases in relation that state’s equal parenting law, which passed in 2017:

Update on domestic violence and family court filings in Kentucky

Equal parenting means less family violence

In summary:

In 2017, the Kentucky legislature passed the country’s first presumption of equally shared parenting time when parents separate or divorce. What’s happened since that date has torpedoed arguments that a 50/50 presumption will increase family violence.

Between 2010 and 2024, the number of domestic violence claims filed alongside family court filings fell by 80%, even as Kentucky’s population grew. But this is not the whole story. Rates of family court filings involving claims of violence picked up …