The statute allows virtual strangers with no significant relation to the child to petition for visitation, forcing parents to incur legal costs to oppose frivolous requests in court.
What bothers many Alaskans is the onslaught of "industrial tourism," a term coined by the environmental writer Edward Abbey to describe mass tourism and its effects -- in Moab, Utah, for example, the crush of visitors has damaged the fragile desert and forced federal officials to limit visitation to some areas.
And while he did order the mom to give the dad more visitation time, he also forced the dad to hand over the cell phone and forbid him from sharing the images.
In the movie, Matt Damon's character realizes he doesn't have enough food to survive the next possible human visitation four years in the future and is forced to recognize he might starve to death.
He also contended that inmates had been detained on false accusations from politically motivated informers and that some families had been forced to bribe police officers for the release of their relatives or even for visitation rights.
Although informal social support cannot be forced on parents, health professionals can mobilize resources that are culturally sensitive, such as home visitation by nurses or support from other parents.
A visitation by this variety generally coincides with an entire week of rain and fog, forcing a cancellation of all outdoor activities and necessitating uninterrupted togetherness in one living room.
The hero, or anti-hero, is a tottering tower of reason whose visitation by dark forces seems a fitting punishment for his intellectual arrogance.
Her head and body are invisible inside her drapery as she stands with the group and alone, a force rather than a person, a visitation of grief and light.
There is shock, but no surprise, as if each unwelcome visitation, like the benign force that counters it, were long since written — or, in the case of "Signs," mapped out as a battle plan — in the stars.
