THE PHENOMENON OF CHILD ABDUCTION
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The phenomenon of international family child abduction normally arises when the marital union (or the partnership) gets broken: this new situation is often perceived and leaved as an actual war and can lead to a tremendous impact on the physiology of children.
 In this situation a fight for the children custody is likely to arise and in some cases it may result in a “kidnapping” performed by one of the two parents.
This “kidnapping” is more commonly called “child abduction”.
Family child abduction indicates the act through which a parent, without the consensus of the other parent and with a unilateral decision, withdraw one child from the control of the other parent with the goal of hiding and keeping the kid with him/herself for an undetermined period of time.
The illegal transfer of the child towards a Country different by the one where the child use to have his/her normal residence leads to different consequences/situations depending on the legal status of the family at the moment of the abduction (family court could have issued already one or more enforcements on the concerned family):...