tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975229107548535462024-03-13T15:18:04.580-05:00Battered Women, Battered Children, Custody AbuseAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comBlogger2868125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-52226677028329863072013-09-26T07:50:00.001-05:002013-09-26T07:50:31.312-05:00APA: Fathers who batter their children's mothers can be expected to use abusive power and control techniques to control the children<p><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20050303225918/http://www.apa.org/images/bluebara.gif" width="586" height="38" /><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20050303225918/http://www.apa.org/images/Pubint01.gif" /></p> <p>Report of the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force On Violence And The Family</p> <h4><a href="http://www.nnflp.org/apa/issue5.html" target="_blank">ISSUES AND DILEMMAS IN FAMILY VIOLENCE</a></h4> <i></i> <hr /> <h4><u><b>Issue 5</b></u></h4> <h5><b>WHEN PARENTS SEPARATE AFTER AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP, SHOULDN'T FATHERS HAVE AS MUCH RIGHT AS MOTHERS TO BE GRANTED PHYSICAL CUSTODY OF AND VISITATION RIGHTS WITH THEIR CHILDREN?</b> <p><b><i>Tensions exist between children's need for contact with their father and their need to be protected from the physical, sexual and psychological abuse that is common in families where there has been other forms of violence such as woman abuse.</i></b></p> Although most people believe that fathers should have equal access to their children after the termination of a relationship between the parents, the equal-access option is based on the assumption that the fathers will act in their children's best interests. However, that is a naive assumption in situations where family violence has occurred.</h5> <p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Fathers who batter their children's mothers can be expected to use abusive power and control techniques to control the children, too</font></strong>. In many of these families, prior to separation, the men were not actively involved in the raising of their children. To gain control after the marital separation, the fathers fight for the right to be involved. Often children who have been exposed to violence in the family are frightened to confront their father's negative or abusive behavior, and mothers cannot protect them. Sometimes the father tries to alienate the child from the mother by using money and other enticements, negative comments, or restricted access to the telephone during visitation with him. Other times, fathers may threaten or actually kidnap the child to punish the mother for leaving, or to try to force her to return.</p> <p>Most people, including the battered woman herself, believe that when a woman leaves a violent man, she will remain the primary caretaker of their children. Family courts, however, may not consider the history of woman abuse relevant in awarding custody. Recent studies suggest that an abusive man is more likely than a nonviolent father to seek sole physical custody of his children and may be just as likely (or even more likely) to be awarded custody as the mother. Often fathers win physical custody because men generally have greater financial resources and can continue the court battles with more legal assistance over a longer period of time.</p> <p>Family courts frequently minimize the harmful impact of children's witnessing violence between their parents and sometimes are reluctant to believe mothers. If the court ignores the history of violence as the context for the mother's behavior in a custody evaluation, she may appear hostile, uncooperative, or mentally unstable. For example, she may refuse to disclose her address, or may resist unsupervised visitation, especially if she thinks her child is in danger. Psychological evaluators who minimize the importance of violence against the mother, or pathologize her responses to it, may accuse her of alienating the children from the father and may recommend giving the father custody in spite of his history of violence.</p> <p>Some professionals assume that accusations of physical or sexual abuse of children that arise during divorce or custody disputes are likely to be false, but the empirical research to date shows no such increase in false reporting at that time. In many instances, children are frightened about being alone with a father they have seen use violence towards their mother or a father who has abused them. Sometimes children make it clear to the court that they wish to remain with the mother because they are afraid of the father, but their wishes are ignored.</p> <p>Research indicates that high levels of continued conflict between separated and divorced parents hinders children's normal development. Some practitioners now believe that it may be better for children's development to restrict the father's access to them and avoid continued danger to both mothers and the children.</p> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050303225918/http://www.apa.org/pi/pii/familyvio/issue4.html"><img border="0" hspace="10" alt="Last Page" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20050303225918/http://www.apa.org/pi/pii/familyvio/back.gif" /></a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050303225918/http://www.apa.org/pi/pii/familyvio/homepage.html">Table of Contents</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050303225918/http://www.apa.org/pi/pii/familyvio/issue6.html"><img border="0" hspace="10" alt="Next Page" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20050303225918/http://www.apa.org/pi/pii/familyvio/next.gif" /></a></p> <hr noshade="noshade" /> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050303225918/http://www.apa.org/pi/about.html">About Public Interest</a> � <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050303225918/http://www.apa.org/pi/conf.html">Conferences</a> � <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050303225918/http://www.apa.org/pi/edmessages.html">Executive Director Messages</a> <br /><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050303225918/http://www.apa.org/pi/">Public Interest Home Page</a> <br /><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050303225918/http://www.apa.org/pi/programs.html">Program Areas</a> � <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050303225918/http://www.apa.org/pi/publicat.html">Publications</a> � <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050303225918/http://www.apa.org/pi/student.html">Student Information</a> <br />American Psychological Association <br />Public Interest Directorate <br />750 First Street, NE <br />Washington, DC 20002 <br />E-mail: <a href="mailto:publicinterest@apa.org">publicinterest@apa.org</a></p> <hr /> <p>�1998 American Psychological Association <br /><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050303225918/http://www.apa.org/">APA Home Page</a> . <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050303225918/http://baldwin.apa.org:88/best/index.html">Search</a> . <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050303225918/http://www.apa.org/sitemap.html">Site Map</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-78216794903360491442013-08-30T00:49:00.001-05:002013-08-30T00:49:22.183-05:00Judicial Abuse<p> </p> <p> <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-UOzg-vrHbIY/UiAyXC_mPjI/AAAAAAAAgx4/kprY2yBxKWc/s1600-h/Scales-300x257%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Scales-300x257" border="0" alt="Scales-300x257" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-PtBRx5HdhuM/UiAyYMpwBrI/AAAAAAAAgyA/7VX4a8QKZDs/Scales-300x257_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="236" height="244" /></a> </p> <p>Judicial Abuse [<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100728084125/http://theanonymums.com/" target="_blank">from web archive</a>]</p> <h6>Introduction</h6> Judicial abuse occurs when the effects of law itself are damaging to the person access to justice. In the most severe forms, Judicial abuse often occurs involving the most vulnerable members of our world: Children. For some time, judicial abuse has occurred across systems and mostly against mothers and children. Considering that it was not that long ago that both women and children were seen and not heard, just as things were improving it seemed as though humanity was finally valuing each and every precious human life. Out in the public, such things would and do cause enough outrage for a sense of "natural justice". Away from the public eye, these human rights atrocities occur almost unseen and unheard like a thief in the night. <h6>Secrecy</h6> There are laws that prevent survivors from speaking out about their experiences. Whilst it is "for the children", children are not allowed to speak about the proceedings either. The media have written too few articles on the family court. To bring the case to the media, participants must seek permission from the court itself or face imprisonment. Controversially, fathers rights groups were allowed to heavily voice their stories of "no contact", "falsely accused of child abuse and domestic violence" and few were allowed to challenge that except in utilizing generalist terms and evidence based research. We are aware that most of these stories are not the case at all but are withheld by law to bring the public the truth. <h6>Family Court</h6> In the process of seeking more time with children and promoting what appears to be the most noble cause, has entrenched the rights of mothers and children in their ability to seek safety from violence. Heads have been quoted in the media for stating that "family violence is our core business". The propaganda that is spread about the voices of children and their access to justice promotes the profitability in manufacturing child abuse and domestic violence. They can do something about it, but it is not within their best economical advantage to do so. This will continue until something is done Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-981405099053304662013-08-27T13:18:00.001-05:002013-08-27T13:18:53.162-05:00Dombrowski et el V. U.S.A, 2007 -- PETITION # 664-07 International Commission Human Rights (IACHR)<p>This case is still pending at the IACHR. We expect a ruling any day. The last that we heard the commission had asked for more information from the petitioners that request can be seen <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/161511733/IACHR-2012-Nov-15-Dombrowski-et-el-V-U-S-A-2007-Mothers-Lawsuit" target="_blank">Follow up request from the commission 2013</a>. I supplied the requested information of my part in February 2013. I have also started a file that can be <a href="http://www.scribd.com/collections/4333991/IACHR-Files" target="_blank">viewed here</a> related to the IACHR.</p> <blockquote> <p> Since the information is no longer available via the stop family violence <a href="http://iachr-mothers-petition.blogspot.com/p/httpweb.html" target="_blank">website, a reconstruction of that site is here</a>.</p></blockquote> <p>####</p> <p>Full Text of IACHR Petition. On May 11,2007, just before Mother’s Day weekend, ten mothers, one victimized child, now an adult, leading national and state organizations filed a complaint against the United States with the Inter American Commission on Human Rights. Their petition claims that U.S. courts, by frequently awarding child custody to abusers and child molesters, has failed to protect the life, liberties, security and other human rights of abused mothers and their children.</p> <p>2007 May 11 IACHR Entire PETITION Mother's File International Lawsuit<br>Dombrowski et el V. U.S.A, 2007<br>International Commission Human Rights<br>PETITION 664-07</p> <p><a href="http://claudinedombrowski.blogspot.com/2013/08/dombrowski-et-el-v-usa-2007-petition.html">http://claudinedombrowski.blogspot.com/2013/08/dombrowski-et-el-v-usa-2007-petition.html</a><br></p> <p>Failures of U.S. Courts Forces Mothers to Turn to International Law - See more at: <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/8-news-action-alerts-press-release/46-failures-of-us-courts-forces-mothers-to-turn-to-international-law#sthash.mPqmwjGP.dpuf">http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/8-news-action-alerts-press-release/46-failures-of-us-courts-forces-mothers-to-turn-to-international-law#sthash.mPqmwjGP.dpuf</a></p> <p style="margin: 12px auto 6px; display: block; font: 14px helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none"><a style="text-decoration: underline" title="View Full Text of IACHR Petition. 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KILLS" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO9nIlBVKCe-Jh0OLu94kAmLU1zhyFV_J8V_zZhEPEju7mpYauUw1Pe8YYyrFPJ-AQkJDCj6Rz4vmKdrvEpoRLfw_k3DTn7Sqd5sym1wtLKVGNLYoAOuQ_ojG9KTAOQ1VqTMve-oCxSFE/?imgmax=800" /></p> <p>source: <a href="http://site.nomas.org/shared-custody-issues-context-domestic-violence/">NOMAS</a></p> <p>In a Queens New York custody case, the court appointed a prominent psychologist to evaluate a young couple. The psychologist was frequently used as an expert in the New York courts despite a fathers’ rights bias that included a quotation in a New York Times article supporting shared parenting. Throughout his testimony supporting the abusive father, the evaluator could not respond to any of my questions asking for research to support any of his claims. Finally I asked him if there was any research to support his belief that children benefit from a 50-50 division as compared to 70-30. He cited Judith Wallerstein, but could not cite a particular book or article. A colleague put me in touch with Ms. Wallerstein who sent me an email for my continued cross-examination of the evaluator. She said that earlier research had indicated shared parenting might be beneficial in cases where the parents are able to cooperate, but more recent research has demonstrated that shared parenting is in fact harmful to children. One of the problems in our custody courts is that this psychologist, like most experts relied on by the courts does not have the knowledge of up-to-date research or the ability to apply it to custody cases.</p> <p>Shared custody, sometimes referred to as joint custody involves joint decision making by the parents and sometimes also requires something close to a 50-50 division of time with each parent. The equal time division is often important to parents wishing to avoid paying child support. Proponents of shared parenting say it is only fair that parents have the same rights to parenting time with their children and courts claim that they must treat each parent that comes to court equally. This seems fair unless we understand the unstated part that parents should be treated the same <strong>regardless of the quantity and quality of time </strong>each parent spent with the child before the separation. Research about primary attachment is not controversial and demonstrates that a child’s primary attachment figure is more important to the well being of a child than the other parent. Furthermore, although research supports the belief that children benefit from having both parents in their lives, this is not true if one of the parents is abusive. Nevertheless many courts think it is their obligation to treat each parent the same even when one is much more valuable to the child.</p> <h5 align="center">Custody When Neither Parent is Abusive</h5> <p>The concept of shared parenting was supported by an initial study that found a favorable response. Courts were delighted to support shared parenting because it served as a way to compromise a difficult issue and could remove many cases from an already crowded calendar. Abusive fathers who had little involvement with the children during the relationship strongly supported shared parenting as a way to avoid child support and maintain access and control over their victims.</p> <p>The initial study was based on a very limited population and most favorable circumstances that included parents who enthusiastically supported the use of shared parenting, were able to cooperate and lived close together. Later studies that included larger populations and more long term effects of the arrangement demonstrated shared custody to be harmful to children, but these studies failed to dampen the enthusiasm for shared custody in the legal system and by abusers.</p> <p>The studies found that children with two homes in reality had no homes. Children forced to bounce back and forth between their parents’ homes were denied a sense of security and continuity. They could not spend the time with friends that they wanted and often could not participate in a variety of activities because they had to be with the other parent when some of the events occurred. Children were often embarrassed when articles they needed for school or other activities were left in the wrong home. In other words, even when parents were able to cooperate, the shared custody arrangement placed added pressure on the children and made their lives more difficult. Their success in academic studies and social interaction was negatively impacted by the shared custody arrangement.</p> <h5 align="center">Shared Custody in Domestic Violence Cases</h5> <p>Many of the laws and proposed legislation seeking to promote shared custody purport to contain language to create an exception for domestic violence cases and sometimes for other cases in which the parties are unable to cooperate. There is a good reason to treat domestic violence cases differently as shared custody is particularly harmful to children when one of the parents is an abuser. A parent cannot co-parent with an abuser because it is unsafe to challenge him and compromise is impossible when there is unequal power. The fundamental problem, too often missed by courts is that abusers are willing to see their children harmed in order to maintain what they believe is their right to control or punish their partner. Most contested custody cases that courts mistakenly label “high conflict” are in reality domestic violence cases in which fathers use the common abuser tactic of seeking custody to maintain control of their partner or punish her for leaving. Children who witness domestic violence (including non-physical abuse) are more likely to engage in dysfunctional behavior when they are older. Depending on their age when they witness his abuse, their stage of development is disrupted. All batterers have been found to engage in harmful parenting practices including undermining the relationship with the other parent, teaching bad values (sexism) and providing a bad example. In other words, up-to-date research establishes that abusers are not appropriate candidates for custody or shared custody.</p> <p>The benefit of an exception for domestic violence is limited because of the widespread failure of courts to recognize domestic violence in custody cases. Thirty plus years ago when domestic violence first became a public issue there was no research available. Courts, like other bodies developed practices and approaches to consider domestic violence without knowing what worked. At the time domestic violence was mostly focused on physical abuse. The assumption was that mental problems and substance abuse caused domestic violence and that women’s behavior contributed to their partner’s abuse. Courts therefore chose to use mental health professionals as experts although they had no training in the dynamics of domestic violence. Courts assumed that children were not harmed by domestic violence unless they were directly assaulted and his abuse would end once the parties separated. Up-to-date research demonstrates that all of this and many other assumptions still relied on by many professionals in the custody court system are wrong.</p> <p>There is now a specialized body of knowledge about domestic violence, but too often judges and the professionals they rely on are overconfident in their own understanding of domestic violence and fail to consider up-to-date research. Judge Mike Brigner wrote in his chapter for DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, ABUSE and CHILD CUSTODY that when he trains judges they often ask him what to do about women who are lying. When asked what they mean, they cite women who return to their abusers, fail to pursue petitions for protective orders, don’t have police reports or hospital records and the myth that women frequently make false allegations of abuse to gain an advantage in litigation (in reality this occurs only one-two percent of the time). None of these behaviors indicates the women are lying and in fact this is often the safest response they can make particularly when still living with their abuser. Similarly inadequately trained professionals often cite the fact that the children did not seem afraid of the alleged abuser when they observed them as proof the allegations are false. The children understand what the “experts” don’t that the abuser is not going to hurt them in front of others and in fact they could be punished if they demonstrated fear in public. Many professionals in the court system believe they have the ability to determine who is lying just from observation. In fact research shows that aside from a very few elite CIA and FBI agents, no one has been shown to possess this skill. Accordingly these professionals through this belief become more susceptible to abusers who are skilled manipulators. While the unqualified professionals often discredit allegations of abuse for these and other invalid reasons, they fail to look at the pattern of controlling and coercive behaviors that would help them see the pattern of abusive behavior.</p> <p>The result of this and many other mistakes by professionals in the custody court system is that thousands of children are being forced to live with abusers and many protective mothers, who are wrongly dismissed as disgruntled litigants and denied any meaningful role in their children’s lives. Legislatures and courts should be focusing on using the available up-to-date research to protect the safety and secure the potential of children caught up in domestic violence custody cases. Today, shockingly, courts are getting a majority of domestic violence custody cases wrong. This is one of the reasons we recommend that all professionals receive not just general domestic violence training, but specific training in Recognizing Domestic Violence, Gender Bias and The Effects of Domestic Violence on Children. Until courts have and apply this information, our children will not be safe when courts decide their fate.</p> <p>In domestic violence custody cases, the use of shared parenting does not save court time and resources, but rather only postpones extensive litigation at great expense to the parties and harm to the children. Abusers eventually contrive incidents as an excuse to seek sole custody or protective mothers are forced to seek custody because the abusers are hurting the children. Abusive parents with limited parenting skills use shared parenting to get their foot in the door while continuing to harass and abuse their former partners. Court professionals often pressure protective mothers to accept shared custody with their abusers and punish them for trying to protect themselves and their children. Over forty states and many other court districts have sponsored gender bias commissions that have found widespread gender bias. Gender bias is particularly hard to overcome because judges and other professionals engage in gender bias without realizing they are doing so. The studies have shown that in custody cases, mothers are given higher standards of proof, less credibility and are blamed for their abuser’s behavior.</p> <p>When mothers seek to limit contact between their children and their abuser for safety reasons and courts routinely treat this as if she is trying to interfere with the relationship between the children and abusive father, this is an example of blaming mothers for the father’s behavior. Instead of courts pressuring the abuser to stop his controlling and threatening behavior, protective mothers often face retaliation and punishment for trying to protect their children. This is particularly common when courts fail to recognize domestic violence and then punish mothers who continue to believe their abuse allegations. Provisions in shared custody laws that purport to make an exception for domestic violence will continue to be ineffective as long as there is widespread failure to recognize domestic violence and to take it seriously. Accordingly shared custody laws are not beneficial in cases where the parties can voluntarily cooperate and create serious danger to children in domestic violence cases</p> <p> </p> <p>See more at: <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/5-family-criminal-law-and-research-abuse-dv-child-custody/94-batterers-revenge-punishment-and-continued-abuse-via-court#sthash.OhT2CBag.dpuf">http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/5-family-criminal-law-and-research-abuse-dv-child-custody/94-batterers-revenge-punishment-and-continued-abuse-via-court#sthash.OhT2CBag.dpuf</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-50437758975046789552013-07-31T10:34:00.001-05:002013-07-31T10:34:48.205-05:00Serious Health Consequences to Children Witnessing Domestic Violence<p>by Barry Goldstein</p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BarryGoldsteinRepresentingDomesticViolenceSurvivor" target="_blank">Barry Goldsteins Representing the Domestic Violence Survivor</a></p> <p> <a href="http://www.barrygoldstein.net/">www.Barrygoldstein.net</a> </p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/vJZRVmQlha4kEK4ma1vAalLL2v2Psj48jaB7ov_ABjyaNriN8yuGW-d4UbujRnWe_VONlfu5NDo3Cwe93ZI4NS0QdcOSGBGM6o8MIIvKvdvPGr5kIApYmqrVuw" width="500" height="568" /></p> <p><strong>Serious Health Consequences to Children Witnessing Domestic Violence</strong></p> <p><strong>New Research Requires Changes in Custody Court Practices</strong></p> <p>Starting with the ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) study in 1998 medical researchers have established the enormous and long term harm to children from being exposed to traumatic events such as witnessing domestic violence and direct physical or sexual abuse.  The research establishes that there is a cumulative adversity so that the more exposure a child suffers the greater the chance of serious medical consequences and the more serious those consequences are likely to be.  There is now a substantial body of medical research that establishes not only the enormous harm to children, but the many mechanisms that result in increased illnesses and injuries during their childhood and for the rest of their lives.  When court or other professionals fail to take sensible actions to safeguard children, or give more consideration to less important factors they are literally reducing the life expectancy of these children.</p> <p>When domestic violence first became a public issue in the mid to late 1970s, custody courts had to develop practices to respond.  For many years when a protective mother went to court seeking a protective order and for any visitation with the father to be supervised judges would routinely ask some version of “Did he also assault the child?”  If the answer was no, the court treated the father as if he was just as qualified as the mother for custody and visitation.  These risky practices continued until the eighties and nineties when research established that children witnessing domestic violence were more likely to engage in a wide range of harmful behaviors when older including substance abuse, self-mutilation, teen pregnancy, dropping out of school, prostitution, crime and for boys to assault future partners and girls to be assaulted by future partners.  These findings led to legislation in every state either to require courts to consider domestic violence in any decision about custody or visitation or to create a presumption against custody for abusers under some limited circumstances.</p> <p>Every state has adopted the best interests of the child standard to determine custody and visitation and has developed a list of factors either legislatively or through case law that must be considered in making these decisions.  Unfortunately the states have not required that children’s safety be treated as the first priority so courts are free to use very subjective standards when deciding where the children will live.  In many cases political or personal beliefs and factors far less important than the safety of children are determinative in custody decisions.  This often poisons the process because abusers can distract attention from safety issues by raising less important issues.  Judges sometimes believe that fairness requires the court to treat the issues raised by the mother and father equally even though one of those issues is more fundamental to the well-being of children.  This is an example of false equivalency that is common in custody courts.  In many cases, courts weigh allegations of domestic violence and alienation as if they are equally important to the well-being of children.  At worst, alienation might temporarily interfere with the relationship between the child and a parent while domestic violence leads to serious and life impacting health problems throughout the child’s life and often reduces how long they live.  I have never heard an evaluator or a judge weigh the relative importance of these issues based on scientific research.  This is particularly problematic because claims of alienation are a common abuser tactic but courts seem to be more open to these allegations than domestic violence which mothers rarely falsify.</p> <p>There is now a substantial body of medical research that establishes the enormous risk to children of exposing them to domestic violence.  The research demonstrates that these children have significant, increased risk of illnesses and injuries as children and need more medical care.  Significantly, these medical problems do not end when children reach their majority but continue for the rest of their lives.  They will have far more medical needs as adults and their life expectancy is reduced.  I believe that custody courts cannot continue to tolerate practices that result in children losing precious years from their lives.  This research requires fundamental reforms or else the courts cannot be acting in the best interests of children.</p> <p><strong>The Medical Harm to Children Witnessing Domestic Violence</strong></p> <p>One of the leading experts about the medical consequences of childhood trauma is Kathleen Kendall-Tackett.  The second edition of her book, Treating the Lifetime Health Effects of Childhood Victimization, was recently published.  This is a book by and for medical professionals that is designed to help them treat a variety of conditions in adult patients that were caused or exacerbated by traumas suffered as children.  The research and the writing were not designed to respond to custody court issues, but the information should be required for any court that wishes to act in the best interests of children.</p> <p>The long-term harm of exposure to domestic violence or direct physical or sexual abuse can and does develop in a myriad of ways.  A child could develop immediate and obvious symptoms or the harm can go unnoticed for many years.  The author encourages doctors to ask about childhood trauma because so many different ailments can have their genesis with childhood trauma.  This is especially problematic because patients are rarely thinking about events from decades earlier as the cause of their health problems.</p> <p>There are many ways in which childhood trauma can seriously impact health now and in the future.  The trauma can cause increased inflammation that can trigger numerous diseases now and in the future.  Accordingly, Dr. Kendall-Tackett recommends an anti-inflammatory for children exposed to abuse.  Quite naturally, exposure to domestic violence often interferes with the child’s ability to enjoy the quality and quantity of sleep needed.  This and several other common responses to abuse can lead to obesity with increased risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other medical problems.  The author suggested that programs and campaigns designed to prevent obesity ought to include efforts to make sure children get their needed sleep and avoid exposure to domestic violence and child abuse.  Indeed these experiences often lead to eating disorders.</p> <p>Many diseases including heart disease, asthma and diabetes are caused or exacerbated by stress.  One of the major reasons researchers found that we spend $750 billion per year on health costs related to domestic violence is because excessive stress is so inimical to good health.  Domestic violence is especially harmful because there is the constant danger that the abuser will threaten or hurt his partner.  Accordingly the stress is repetitive.  This harm is especially severe for children whose various systems are still developing.</p> <p>As discussed earlier, witnessing domestic violence strongly encourages substance abuse.  The use of illegal drugs, tobacco and excessive use of alcohol, especially by children also creates a wide range of long-term medical problems.  Many of the factors I am discussing interact with each other to reinforce the most negative impacts.</p> <p>Exposure to childhood trauma also increases the risk of depression.  This in turn can cause behaviors that further undermine the child’s health.  Depression can discourage proper self-care, negatively impact the immune system and other bodily defenses and is a major factor in suicide.  Significantly, separating children from their primary attachment figure as custody courts frequently do in domestic violence cases also causes depression.  I mentioned before that cumulative adversity magnifies the risk so that it is particularly devastating to children who have witnessed domestic violence or been directly abused to be denied a normal relationship with their primary parent.</p> <p>Childhood trauma is also associated with risky sexual behavior.  This is another example of how witnessing domestic violence leads to many behaviors that cause still more health risks.  Risky sexual behavior can lead to sexually transmitted diseases including HIV and cause survivors to interact with dangerous individuals.  It can also encourage the use of dangerous drugs.</p> <p>For children to witness their father or another man abusing their mother, they would tend to be fearful and angry, but often it is unsafe for them to express their anger particularly to the abuser.  This can cause them to express their anger in other ways that can undermine their health and safety.  This can result in both physical and mental illnesses or cause them to get into fights where someone else hurts them.  The childhood trauma also can lead to shame and self-blame that can be harmful to their health.  Significantly, low self-esteem can also be caused by denying children normal contact with their primary attachment figure so that many common custody court approaches serve to multiply the harm caused by domestic violence.</p> <p>In many ways, domestic violence leads to poverty and this undermines the health of victims.  Education is important in order to improve one’s economic status.  Children who witness domestic violence and often miss needed sleep both because of frightening incidents at night and the fear which makes it hard to sleep at other times.  This makes it difficult for children to get their work done in school.  They may also act out because of their anger.  Economic abuse is an often overlooked part of domestic violence tactics so that mothers seeking to leave their abusers often lose income and family resources.  In many cases the bias favoring abusive fathers forces mothers to trade support for custody.  Small wonder at least half of the homeless population consists of mothers and children who left abusers.  Many children also leave home because of domestic violence, physical or sexual abuse.  Victims with limited financial resources often can’t afford safe housing, healthy food and needed medical care.  All of this contributes to medical problems facing children impacted by domestic violence.</p> <p>Many victims of childhood trauma suffer from unexplained or inadequately explained conditions.  Many are labeled as hypochondriacs which may say more about the failure of the medical community to find the cause than the complaints of the victims.  These experiences are painful in many ways both physically and emotionally and can prove debilitating.  Living with pain undermines other parts of a person’s life and interferes with their ability to reach their potential.</p> <p>Just as any adverse experiences a child has are cumulative so that combined they are much more harmful, the same is true of the many medical consequences caused by domestic violence and child abuse.  The various conditions which are just some of the problems faced by children impacted by domestic violence come together to magnify the harm done to children.  This research ought to make clear that we must stop minimizing the significance of these childhood traumas.</p> <p><strong>Impact of Health Concerns in Individual Cases</strong></p> <p>The fact is that the present custody court response to domestic violence has been a disaster for battered women and children.  Everything is severely tilted to favor abusive fathers so that the outcomes are often catastrophic and the court discussions tend to focus too much on protecting abusers’ interests rather than safeguarding children.  Accordingly we are desperately seeking to find a way to help court professionals understand the enormous harm they are causing by following outdated, discredited and biased approaches.  In succession we have hoped that the powerful documentation of court failures contained in The Batterer as Parent, Domestic Violence, Abuse and Child Custody, the Saunders’ study from the US Department of Justice and Representing the Domestic Violence Survivor might encourage court officials to take a fresh look at false assumptions that continue to place children in jeopardy.  Much of this research and publications are new so they still may help change the system as they sometimes change individual cases.  They may also have a cumulative effect over time.</p> <p>The new research about the lifelong health impacts on children witnessing domestic violence, child abuse and other childhood traumas ought to require courts to take a new look at standard practices.  There are two important differences that might help give this information some traction.  The research does not come from anyone involved in the domestic violence movement, but rather is from the medical community.  It was developed for the purpose of better treating adult patients who suffered childhood trauma.  In other words it would be hard for anyone to discredit this research.  The second factor is that the findings go to what is supposed to be the essence of what custody courts are supposed to do.  HOW CAN ANYTHING THAT DOES NOT IMPACT THE IMMEDIATE SAFETY OF CHILDREN BE TREATED AS IF IT WERE AS IMPORTANT OR MORE IMPORTANT THAN CHILDHOOD TRAUMAS THAT RESULT IN INCREASED ILLNESSES AND INJURIES THROUGHOUT THE LIFE OF THE CHILDREN AND REDUCED LIFE EXPECTANCY?</p> <p>This medical research strongly supports requests from protective mothers to make safety the first priority.  Common issues that courts routinely consider as factors in deciding custody and visitation like alienation, friendly parent, which home is nicer, relative financial status of the parties, children’s preference and many of the phony or unimportant mental health diagnoses used to pathologize protective mothers pale in comparison with the significance of factors that impact children’s health such as domestic violence and child abuse.  Not only should the court place far more weight on these factors, but there is no reason to allow issues that do not impact children’s safety to distract attention from factors that so directly impact the well-being of children.  The “rights” of the parents, which “fathers’ rights” groups have elevated to the first priority, must be subordinated to the health and lifespan of the children.  Yes, courts should have seen that before, but the research about the impact of trauma means that political beliefs about father’s rights can no longer be used to undermine children’s safety.</p> <p>We have also seen many evaluators and other court professionals who do not understand domestic violence dynamics require some artificial level of domestic violence or child abuse before taking the risk seriously.  In our new book, Elizabeth Liu and I wrote about a New York evaluator with a bias for shared parenting who claimed to know domestic violence when he saw it and required the victim to have serious physical injuries before he would allow claims of domestic violence to interfere with his personal preferences.  Similarly some states require a more “serious” offense or level of proof such as conviction of a felony before presumptions against custody for abusers apply.  This would not prevent a court from protecting children in cases that do not rise to this level, but some courts have discarded evidence if it fails to meet the requirement for the presumption.  Courts sometimes forget that the purpose of considering domestic violence is because of the harm it does to children.  The medical harm I have been discussing in this article is not limited to cases in which the victim sustains a “serious” injury or even to cases of physical abuse.  Furthermore, one of the problems with the custody court response to domestic violence is the widespread failure to understand domestic violence dynamics.  Abusive fathers commit domestic violence tactics based on a belief system that they are entitled to control their partner and make the major decisions in the relationship.  His belief system does not change with the end of the relationship and in fact the use of the custody tactic demonstrates the likelihood he will continue to abuse future partners.  If the abuser is granted custody or unsupervised visitation, the children are likely to witness still more domestic violence.  This adds to their cumulative adversity and therefore dramatically increases their medical risks.</p> <p>The severity of the harm of domestic violence makes it critical that courts are able to recognize true allegations of abuse.  We frequently see practices where courts rely on inadequately trained court professionals.  The Saunders’ study recommended these professionals need to learn how to screen for domestic violence and conduct a risk assessment.  In many cases allegations of domestic violence are dismissed for non-probative reasons such as the mother returning to her abuser, failing to follow-through when seeking a protective order, having no police or medical records or the children interacting with their father without fear because they know he would not hurt them in front of witnesses.  At the same time few lawyers know to present the pattern of coercive and controlling tactics which includes so much more than physical abuse and judges and evaluators rarely look for this pattern.  Evaluators routinely fail to use any tools such as the Campbell Danger Assessment that would help them recognize the danger, but instead rely on psychological tests that tell them nothing about domestic violence.  We cannot continue to use such flawed practices and inadequately trained professionals when the resulting mistakes are likely to reduce children’s life expectancy.  It becomes even more important for courts to use best practices which include considering current scientific research and at least consulting with a domestic violence expert.  A psychologist or other mental health professional could also be a domestic violence expert, but this is rare.  The Saunders’ study found that a mental health degree and the standard and required training for evaluators do not provide the level of expertise needed for domestic violence cases.</p> <p>Many protective mothers have complained that their attorneys refuse to present evidence of abuse.  The new medical evidence will make it critical that attorneys not only present the father’s history of abuse, but make sure the court is aware of the enormous medical harm to children to witnessing domestic violence.  They must also ask the courts for the protection that is needed including protective orders and supervised visitation.  One of the findings in the Saunders’ study is that courts did not limit alleged abusers to supervised visitation as often as needed.</p> <p><strong>The Medical Research Requires Fundamental Reforms in the Custody Courts</strong></p> <p>The enormity of the harm to children caused by witnessing domestic violence, child abuse and other childhood trauma makes it critical that society find ways to protect children and minimize their exposure to risk.  Now that the research is available that demonstrates the cumulative impact of adversity on children, our method of resolving custody and visitation must assure everything possible is done to minimize this risk.</p> <p>Our system of jurisprudence is based on the belief that if both parties present their best case the truth will usually prevail.  This is particularly problematic when one party has significantly more resources.  This frequently happens in domestic violence cases because abusers use control tactics that include control of financial resources.  They have also developed tactics designed to bankrupt their victims by using aggressive and often questionable legal strategies.  In many cases, protective mothers are left unrepresented by the time the case comes to trial.  This means the results are often determined more by the relative wealth of the parties than the merits of the case.  This can no longer be tolerable when the result often takes years off children’s lives.  The Batterer as Parent recommends that the abuser pay all expenses including legal fees made necessary by his abusive behavior.  Judge Mike Brigner has written that courts have the authority to level the playing field but rarely make use of this authority.  At the very least courts will have to become more aware of economic abuse and create effective remedies so that victims can present their side of the story in a meaningful way.</p> <p>Lawyers are ethically required to zealously advocate for their clients within the law even when this causes a miscarriage of justice.  In the case of a criminal defense attorney they are required to use defense strategies that sometimes result in guilty criminals going free.  In some cases they use their freedom to kill or hurt new victims.  Nevertheless the potential harm would be speculative and the greater good of maintaining our system of jurisprudence takes precedence.  Can it be ethical to use the same legal principles to help an abuser gain custody or unprotected visitation which is likely to seriously harm the health and well-being of a specific child victim?</p> <p>It seems to me that the harm to children’s health requires that the legal and mental health community take a fresh look at the ethics involved in practices that are likely to hurt children.  This is particularly true of the lawyers and psychologists who are part of the cottage industry that makes its money supporting abusive fathers.  Can it be ethical given the new research for mental health professionals to provide reports and give testimony based on personal beliefs and theories unsupported by scientific research that are likely to harm the children in the case?  Similarly can attorneys for batterers ethically use strategies deliberately designed to mislead or confuse the court in ways that place children in jeopardy?  Can these professionals remain ignorant of current research so that they are unqualified to handle the case but can truthfully say they were unaware of the danger they helped create?  Another way of asking this is should the legal system reconsider how custody and visitation are determined in cases involving domestic violence and child abuse in order to make sure the children’s health is protected?</p> <p>At a minimum, it seems to me the courts must create a screening system so a professional with genuine domestic violence expertise reviews each case and sends all domestic violence cases to a special part or section that specializes in these critical and difficult cases.  This will be important because a lot of common custody practices particularly seeking to require the parents to cooperate are inappropriate in domestic violence cases.  Children will benefit if the professionals responding to the case understand the serious health and safety risks the children are probably facing.</p> <p>The judges presiding over these cases would have special training about domestic violence and understand the risks involved.  They would be used to looking to the specialized body of domestic violence research to inform their decisions.  Lawyers, GALs and evaluators (if needed) would all be required to have the necessary training.  The focus would be on the safety of the children as it should be.</p> <p>The initial inquiry would be limited to the validity of allegations concerning domestic violence and child abuse.  This avoids distractions from other less important issues that abusers often use as part of their tactics to avoid responsibility for their actions.  If allegations of domestic violence or child abuse are confirmed the court will protect the children and encourage actions that would limit the long-term health impact.</p> <p>The first priority is to make sure the children are never again exposed to these traumatic events.  This is especially important because of the increased harm from cumulative adversity.  Professionals trained in domestic violence dynamics will understand the danger for children to witness the offender’s abuse of future partners if the children are not protected.</p> <p>There are responses and treatment children can receive that would reduce the harm caused by exposure to domestic violence and other trauma.  In some cases they might receive anti-inflammatories to reduce negative consequences.  Their sleep patterns can be monitored so they can be helped to get the sleep they need.  Mental health therapy can be used to cope with the trauma and respond in more healthy ways.  The protective parent is more likely to encourage the needed treatment, make it safe for the children to discuss their experiences and help them heal.  In the present custody system, we often have arrangements that give the abuser control or veto power over treatment and other issues which are used to prevent or discourage the necessary treatment.  This is another example where the “rights” of the parent or the minimization of abuse are harmful to the long-term health of the children.</p> <p>Given the enormous risks to children’s health, it is important that children have access to any treatment that could prevent serious health consequences years later.  This treatment is available today and could help protect children’s health.  Other treatment may be needed as the child gets older and new symptoms develop as a result of earlier traumas.  Many of the treatments will only be effective if the child is no longer exposed to domestic violence and abuse and is made to feel safe.  This is another reason courts should be giving custody to the safer parent.  It should be considered malpractice for any court professional to make recommendations that undermine a child’s chance to heal.</p> <p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p> <p>What happens if a court mistakenly believes a mother’s allegations about the father’s abuse and limits the children’s contact with the father?  The children would be denied some good times with their dad and be denied opportunities to learn from him.  This would be wrong and harmful and I have no desire to minimize the negative impact on the children.  What happens if the court disbelieves the mother’s true complaints and provides the abusive father with unprotected visitation or even custody?  This is an unmitigated catastrophe that substantially increases the children’s risk of illnesses and injuries throughout their lives and likely result in a shorter life.  Certainly a less pleasant and productive life.  In the rare event that the mother made a false complaint, the missed time can be made up and there is no reason to expect any long-term consequences.  When the court fails to protect a child from an abuser, it is possible it can later realize its mistake and modify the custody arrangement.  One problem, however, is that in my experience courts that rule against protective mothers are often extremely defensive about their mistakes and rarely correct them.  Furthermore the abusive father is likely to use the control given him by the court to undermine the mother’s relationship with the children.  It is possible, the children could be returned to the mother and receive treatment to ameliorate the harm caused by the court decisions, but in many cases much of the damage will be permanent.</p> <p>Courts routinely consider the relative risks of being wrong in most other types of cases, but rarely in domestic violence custody cases.  Indeed most evaluation reports and court decisions that I have read fail to weigh the relative risks and benefits of a given action based on scientific research.</p> <p>The Saunders’ study from the U. S. Department of Justice recommended that evaluators and other court professionals receive training about the impact of domestic violence on children.  Most of the court professionals who participated in the study claimed to have this research.  In the case of the evaluators, however, this was not supported by their response to vignettes presented as part of the study.  I suspect that when the professionals claimed they had this information, they were referring to the earlier research that witnessing domestic violence makes children more likely to engage in harmful behaviors when older.  The frequency that courts minimize the significance of domestic violence strongly supports this conclusion.</p> <p>The Saunders’ study also recommended that court professionals get training in screening for domestic violence.  The serious consequences when courts fail to recognize true allegations of abuse confirm why this is so important.  So does the finding that the courts are not imposing supervised visitation on alleged abusers as often as they should.  Significantly, court professionals without adequate training tend to believe the myth that mothers frequently make false allegations of abuse.  This means that in many cases the lack of training or bias of court professionals causes decisions that pose enormous risks for children.  Even if the judge knows that mothers rarely make false complaints, the court might be relying on an evaluator or GAL making a recommendation based on this myth.</p> <p>Now that we know the enormous lifetime medical harm caused to children when they are exposed to domestic violence and child abuse, what will we do to minimize the potential harm?  I would like to ask judges and court administrators if they agree this medical research requires a fundamental review of practices used to respond to abuse allegations.  In order to better protect children, would the courts be willing to create meetings with leading researchers and domestic violence advocates to explore the best ways to protect our children.  THE LOSS OF ONE YEAR FROM ONE CHILD’S LIFE IS ONE YEAR TOO MANY.</p> <p>###</p> <p><em>Barry Goldstein is a nationally recognized domestic violence expert, speaker, writer and consultant.  He is the co-editor with Mo Therese Hannah of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, ABUSE and CHILD CUSTODY.  Representing the Domestic Violence Survivor, co authored with Elizabeth Liu is designed to train attorneys to present domestic violence cases and was released in April of 2013.  Barry can be reached by email from their web site www.Domesticviolenceabuseandchildcustody.com</em></p> <p><em>For more information about the new book, including access to the first approximately 50 pages or to purchase the book go to the publisher’s web site at </em><a href="http://civicresearchinstitute.com/rdv.html"><em>http://civicresearchinstitute.com/rdv.html</em></a><em> Elizabeth Liu and I have convinced our publisher to make available the last section of our chapter about GALs that lists and explains the best practices for GALs in domestic violence cases.  You can now download and print this information and share it with your GAL.  Everyone is welcome to share this information.  I also hope you will check out my new Face book page, Barry Goldsteins Representing the Domestic Violence Survivor.  Barry’s web site, </em><a href="http://www.barrygoldstein.net/"><em>www.Barrygoldstein.net</em></a><em> is back up and running with new material.</em></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-83579594136759307902013-07-24T23:03:00.001-05:002013-07-24T23:03:10.066-05:00Announcement for all Protective Mothers<h5><a href="http://thetruthaboutthefamilycourt.blogspot.com/2013/07/announcement-for-all-protective-mothers.html">Announcement for all Protective Mothers</a></h5> <p>Due to recent revelations by Janice Levinson and Lundy Bancroft of Protective Mother's Alliance, as a contributor to this blog, I hereby denounce JL, LB and PMA. I do not support either of them, the organization with which they are affiliated, and in fact do believe by Levinson's recent actions that both are needlessly and shamelessly throwing TRUE victims of horrendous abuse under the proverbial bus. If you decide to align with either Levinson or Bancroft, please do so with caution.</p> <p><a href="http://thetruthaboutthefamilycourt.blogspot.com/2013/07/announcement-for-all-protective-mothers.html">http://thetruthaboutthefamilycourt.blogspot.com/2013/07/announcement-for-all-protective-mothers.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://claudinedombrowski.blogspot.com/2013/07/reply-to-lundy-bancroft-change-is-here.html">http://claudinedombrowski.blogspot.com/2013/07/reply-to-lundy-bancroft-change-is-here.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://glennscult.blogspot.com/2013/07/due-to-recent-revelations-by-janice.html">http://glennscult.blogspot.com/2013/07/due-to-recent-revelations-by-janice.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://bx.businessweek.com/open-government/janice-levinson-using-the-blood-of-battered-mothers-and-children-for-her-personal-gain/7420065467279087640-54223d6685f4e599a8d5d17d4bb694b9/">http://bx.businessweek.com/open-government/janice-levinson-using-the-blood-of-battered-mothers-and-children-for-her-personal-gain/7420065467279087640-54223d6685f4e599a8d5d17d4bb694b9/</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-40187136641423909332013-07-24T22:15:00.001-05:002013-07-24T22:15:58.964-05:00Kansas Mother Lost Custody to State because she WORKED! Foster Parent Grandmother not allowed to Care For her own Grandson. #Child #Trafficking #Federal #Funded<blockquote> <p><font size="3"><em>On Monday, July 29, 2013, there will be a rally in front of KVC, 1223 Meadow Lark Lane, Kansas City, Kansas, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.</em></font></p> <p><font size="3"><em>This is a rally for the grandmother, Patricia, who was on the local Kansas City News, Channel 4, reporter Tess Koppelman,  last week who stated that even though she had been a foster parent for years for KVC, Patricia was not allowed placement or adoption of her 4 year old grandson.   Patricia's grandson was placed in stranger foster care and her grandson has had cuts and bruises which is possible abuse while in foster care.</em></font></p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://changingkansas.blogspot.com/2013/07/kansas-kvc-takes-child-from-mother-and.html"><font size="2">http://changingkansas.blogspot.com/2013/07/kansas-kvc-takes-child-from-mother-and.html</font></a></p> <p></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <p></p> <h3>Grandmother fights for custody of own grandson</h3> <div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody"><i>Grandmother is a foster placement for other KVC foster children </i><script height="315px" src="http://player.ooyala.com/iframe.js#ec=lrZ3U1ZDqxjyziJgUKE8AQLwDE3CPakF&pbid=99b31ca60977447aac65383d61b8503b" width="560px"></script><a href="http://fox4kc.com/2013/07/09/grandmother-fights-for-custody-of-own-grandson/">http://fox4kc.com/2013/07/09/grandmother-fights-for-custody-of-own-grandson/</a></div> <p>KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A Kansas grandmother says there’s no reason why she shouldn’t be able to have custody of her own grandson, but for some reason, the state won’t let her have him. Patricia Madison says she is approved by the state of Kansas to be a foster parent, and she’s fostered many children over the last five years. But for some reason she’s not allowed to take in her own grandson.</p> <p>This custody battle has been going on for about a year and a half now. But Madison says she turned to fox 4 for help because she fears her grandchild will never be returned to his family now that the child’s foster parents are interested in adopting him.</p> <p>For more than a year, the only way Madison has been able to see her almost four year-old grandson Tristen is with supervised visits. She used to see him weekly, but then it was changed to once a month.</p> <p>“When I do see him I really don’t know if that’s the last time,” she said tearfully.</p> <p>Madison says about a year and a half ago her grandson was taken away from her son and put into state care. For awhile Tristen was placed with Madison’s daughter, but Madison says KVC, the agency that oversees foster care, took the child away. Madison says it was because they told her daughter that she worked too much.</p> <p>“She works 40 hours a week, I think that’s normal,” Madison says, “you have to work to pay your bills.”</p> <p>Madison says she’s made it clear from the start she wanted to take in her grandson.</p> <p>“I told them I wanted him placed in my care because I had been working with KVC keeping their foster kids,” she said, “and they told me ‘no.’”</p> <p>Madison says she’s never been told exactly why she can’t have Tristen. At one point she says KVC told her it was because of an abuse allegation from 1998. But letters from the state dated last year and last week both confirm that Madison is not on the Abuse and Neglect Registry and is not barred from working with kids.</p> <p>“I want all of this to be investigated,” Madison said, “this is not a way of putting families together this is not the way it’s supposed to be.”</p> <p>Madison keeps the bedroom ready for her grandson to come home but she’s losing hope, and fears that her grandson’s foster family will be allowed to adopt Tristen.</p> <p>“If he’s taken from me, I will never be the same,” she said, “I love him and I miss him and I hope soon he’ll be back with us again.”</p> <p>Both KVC and the state’s Department of Children and Families say they can’t comment on specific cases. But KVC says it does place kids with family members whenever possible. The agency adds that it works with the state and the courts to determine what is best for the child.</p> <p>Kansas, KVC, Child Trafficking, Mother-less, DCF, Whores of the Court, Social Workers, Foster Care, Profit, Patricia Madison, Kansas City,</p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-41658587124412231792013-06-04T10:44:00.001-05:002013-06-04T10:44:19.455-05:00Bill Windsor Sexual Deviant, Homeland Terrorist and His Cult Group Lawless America<h5>Courtesy of the joeys’ – head over and read the comments as Billy boy implodes.</h5> <h5><a href="http://joeyisalittlekid.blogspot.com/2013/05/sexual-deviant-bill-windsor.html">http://joeyisalittlekid.blogspot.com/2013/05/sexual-deviant-bill-windsor.html</a></h5> <h5>Sexual Deviant Bill Windsor</h5> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9SI-Zh1g6hPrWdzf3yzOX7bosXaDCVjz-sVEsA4H1MqENyFZIokKQR7BCEQMzCExt9voZrmf9Q0VGEZ_Tt1sUxkZhyphenhyphenYrFkRjqQG91kTtofwRSSQUtQxMtt6sQM7C_mzEoq2s8C37iRUE/s1600/sexual-predator-predators-sex-crime.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9SI-Zh1g6hPrWdzf3yzOX7bosXaDCVjz-sVEsA4H1MqENyFZIokKQR7BCEQMzCExt9voZrmf9Q0VGEZ_Tt1sUxkZhyphenhyphenYrFkRjqQG91kTtofwRSSQUtQxMtt6sQM7C_mzEoq2s8C37iRUE/s1600/sexual-predator-predators-sex-crime.jpg" /></a></p> <p>So Bill tried to co-op a real reporters story on rape and incest.  Bill used it as an opportunity to seek out people to tell him their stories involving rape and incest.  He can no longer be bothered by women with custody issues, but he is more than happy to hear a detailed sordid story of rape or incest.  He sent out this plea: <br />DO YOU HAVE A STORY OF SPOUSAL RAPE OR INCEST? <br />I am communicating with a newspaper writer who is researching a story on spousal rape and incest. He is particularly interested in speaking with survivors whose abuse allegations were handledeither in criminal or family courts. If you would be interested in sharing your story, please email nobodies@att.net with the subject in all caps: RAPE. <br />Well this started a fire-storm as one woman named Jan, rightfully gave the direct contact info to the real reporter doing the story, telling the lemmings to bypass the creepy old man trying to get in the middle.  Bill then lashed out at her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica">Lawless America</a> Hey Jan, go away. You must be one of the sickos. <br />Then her friend Lynn stuck up for her saying that she said nothing that was either on the order of a liar or a sicko.  So bill then lashed out at her saying all kinds of sexist and delusional things, Bill asked for stories about rape, but instead he exposed himself as being a liar and a perverted fraud:</p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica">Lawless America</a> Lynn, you are a liar and a slanderer. Go away. Cease and desist the slander and stalking. I have helped many true victims, not you liars. No one named Lynn Buss has ever em ailed me nor is there a Lynn Buss in my database. You are one of the pathetic liars out there.</p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=308303425970622&set=a.267168686750763.1073741826.267163020084663&type=1&comment_id=729224&offset=0&total_comments=21">54 minutes ago</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica"><img alt="" src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-ash4/s32x32/373033_267163020084663_1698339765_q.jpg" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica?fref=ts#"></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica">Lawless America</a> I am asking anyone with information about Jan Halley or Lynn Buss to contact me. I want to expose these people.</p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=308303425970622&set=a.267168686750763.1073741826.267163020084663&type=1&comment_id=729232&offset=0&total_comments=21">51 minutes ago</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica"><img alt="" src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-ash4/s32x32/373033_267163020084663_1698339765_q.jpg" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica?fref=ts#"></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica">Lawless America</a> No, Ardith Cunningham. Lynn Buss never emailed me anything. She appears to be a serial liar...as you likely are. You say you know, well, put up or shut up. Paste the proof right here for all to see. I won't ban you for an hour to give you the opportunity. You have libeled me with your comment here, so I demand an immediate apology and retraction. Absent that, I shall see you in court.</p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=308303425970622&set=a.267168686750763.1073741826.267163020084663&type=1&comment_id=729237&offset=0&total_comments=21">46 minutes ago</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica"><img alt="" src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-ash4/s32x32/373033_267163020084663_1698339765_q.jpg" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica?fref=ts#"></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica">Lawless America</a> I didn't lose a damn thing. You are a libeler, slanderer, and liar, and your associates are the same. You aren't in my email or database either -- just another scumbag in my opinion. You have 50 minutes. Show us the proof you hav4e "right there on your computer."</p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=308303425970622&set=a.267168686750763.1073741826.267163020084663&type=1&comment_id=729242&offset=0&total_comments=21">42 minutes ago</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica"><img alt="" src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-ash4/s32x32/373033_267163020084663_1698339765_q.jpg" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica?fref=ts#"></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica">Lawless America</a> I am sick and tired of all the women who lie their a$$e$ off. Anyone with information about Jan Halley, Lynn Buss, and Ardith Cunningham are encouraged to contact me at nobodies@att.net. I am interested in speaking to former spouses or significant others in the case of some.</p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=308303425970622&set=a.267168686750763.1073741826.267163020084663&type=1&comment_id=729245&offset=0&total_comments=21">39 minutes ago</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica"><img alt="" src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-ash4/s32x32/373033_267163020084663_1698339765_q.jpg" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica?fref=ts#"></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica">Lawless America</a> You are a real sicko, Ardith Cunningham. You are a liar, a serial liar, and I look forward to pursuing you and all the liars in court and with law enforcement.</p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=308303425970622&set=a.267168686750763.1073741826.267163020084663&type=1&comment_id=729252&offset=0&total_comments=21">32 minutes ago</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica"><img alt="" src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-ash4/s32x32/373033_267163020084663_1698339765_q.jpg" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica?fref=ts#"></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica">Lawless America</a> Horse manure. I don't know Lynn Buss. She's a liar. The only thing I care about with her is exposing her as a liar. If she has an ex, I want to talk to him or her. My experience is that anyone who would lie about contact with me will damn sure lie claiming abuse. It's a disease among a bunch of you that severely damages the efforts of honest women who have been abused.</p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=308303425970622&set=a.267168686750763.1073741826.267163020084663&type=1&comment_id=729258&offset=0&total_comments=21">27 minutes ago</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica?ref=stream"><img alt="" src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-ash4/s32x32/373033_267163020084663_1698339765_q.jpg" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica?fref=ts#"></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica?ref=stream">Lawless America</a> Ardith Cunningham is probably a fake identity being used by someone like All Lie</p> </li> </ul> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-46481744438309107012013-05-17T07:22:00.001-05:002013-05-17T07:22:20.742-05:00Is World War Needed to Protect Our Children? Battered Mothers, Abused Children, A National Crisis<p> </p> <p>The <a href="http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1116/is-world-war-needed-to-protect-our-children" target="_blank">Phyllis Chesler Organization</a></p> <h3>Is World War Needed to Protect Our Children?</h3> <p><strong>Every time</strong> a news story breaks about a woman imprisoned as a sex slave (for example<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/07/missing-women-cleveland-brothers-arrested/2140359/"> the Cleveland Three</a>) people are, appropriately, shocked and horrified.</p> <p>What is even more shocking is the fact that such crimes are committed every single day in every country on earth. Children and adult women are routinely sold, tricked or kidnapped in epidemic numbers and <a href="http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/glotip/Trafficking_in_Persons_2012_web.pdf">trafficked into sex slavery</a> for profit. Rarely do such pimps and profiteers bother to keep one girl (or boy) only for themselves.</p> <p><img hspace="6" alt="" align="left" src="http://ontheissuesmagazine.com/hottopicimages/chesler2.jpg" />Civilian pedophiles do that. We think of pedophiles as depraved older men or, increasingly, as men of the cloth, whose prey is an under-age stranger. Once caught, they are registered as sex offenders and law enforcement can, potentially, keep eyes on them.</p> <p>But what if the pedophiles are fathers and their captive prey are their own children? How will the police ever learn about this? There is no system that monitors children in their own homes. When mothers try to do so, they often lose custody of their children. Pedophiles, including a child's own father, are often charming, docile, and seem "normal."</p> <p>Given that it is almost impossible to "police" a man's home (which is still his castle), mothers are on the front line in terms of protecting children. There is no one else. But when mothers try to protect their children from physical or sexual abuse they often lose custody of them.</p> <p>This past weekend I delivered a keynote speech at the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/conference-shines-light-on-plight-of-battered-mothers-seeking-custody/2013/05/10/8a2830fc-b8f1-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_story.html">tenth annual Battered Mothers Custody Conference</a>. This conference was founded by Dr. Maureen ("Mo") Hannah and has functioned as a life line forbattered and "protective" mothers. The <a href="http://www.batteredmotherscustodyconference.org/BMCC%20Tenth%20Anniversary%20program%205-7-13.pdf">program</a> included keynote speeches by Terry O'Neill, NOW's national President and Toby Kleinman, prominent family law attorney and champion for women's rights. More than 15 sessions took place, led by the most dedicated and fearless lawyers, mental health professionals, and mothers. More than 150 people attended this conference. Forty people delivered lectures; 10 of them were custodially challenged mothers.</p> <p>Some mothers lost custody of their children to their batterers. Many battered mothers lost their children when they alleged that their violent husbands had also been sexually abusing their child. Often such mothers are seen as "crazy," and as "alienating" the child from their perfectly nice father. I first broke this scandal 27 years ago when I published my book Mothers on Trial. The Battle for Children and Custody. There have been some improvements. Documented domestic violence is often factored in a bit more often; where there are assets, judges may award mothers a greater percentage of them; gay parents and mothers with demanding careers do not lose custody as they once did for these reasons.</p> <p>However, matters have worsened in many areas—so much so, that I added eight chapters to the 25th<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mothers-Trial-Battle-Children-Custody/dp/1556529996">anniversary edition</a> of this book. Two chapters are titled "Court-Enabled Incest in the 1980s and 1990s," and "Court-Enabled Incest in the Twenty-First Century."</p> <p><img hspace="6" alt="" align="right" src="http://ontheissuesmagazine.com/hottopicimages/chesler1.jpg" />The court system does not want to believe that a well-spoken, charismatic man could really be a savage wife-beater or child abuser. It is easier to believe that his traumatized, sleepless, frightened and rapidly impoverished wife is lying, exaggerating or imagining things. I have interviewed many such mothers, and many more were present at this extraordinary conference which was held in Washington DC at the George Washington University Law School.</p> <p>The police do not rescue these children. In fact, the courts often award custody to their abusers and severely limit the "crazy' mothers' visitation. When such mothers finally run away to save their children, they are routinely captured, imprisoned and lose access to their children for a very long time.</p> <p>One such mother, <a href="http://nowayoutbutone.com/?page_id=15">Holly Collins</a>, was beaten badly for a very long time in the American state of Minnesota. Her children were beaten, too. No one came to their rescue. On the contrary. Eventually, the father, who terrified his children, gained custody of them. The court system nearly destroyed this mother and her children. And so, in 1994, Holly fled the country. She carried her entire legal file with her in her suitcases. In 1996, after an extensive legal review and appeal, Holland granted this American mother political asylum (!) on the grounds that America had not protected her or her children and did not seem likely to ever do so. Garland Waller directed a riveting documentary about Holly, titled <a href="http://www.nowayoutbutone.com/">No Way Out But One</a>. The film was shown to the conference. According to Dr. Hannah, their reaction was "highly positive."</p> <p>The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Battered Mothers Custody Conference and The National Organization of Men Against Sexism presented an award to the "People and Government of the Netherlands and to the extraordinary lawyer who fought for Holly and her children, Els Lucas.</p> <p>The BMCC mothers asked me amazing questions. "Do we need to launch another world war to keep the children safe in America?" "Where is our Abraham Lincoln on this subject?" "What country should we live in if not here?" The mothers, including a group calling itself the "<a href="http://www.mothersoflostchildren.org/">Mothers of Lost Children</a>" demonstrated outside the White House.</p> <p>According to the testimonies of these mothers, their children either witnessed their mothers being beaten on a daily basis and/or were also beaten; some children were also sexually abused. These were households of terror, ruled over by a legal husband and father, not by a stranger. Yes, I know, some mothers falsely allege domestic violence; most do not, nor do most mothers allege incest unless a teacher, pediatrician, social worker or other mandated reporter does so first. And why? Because 21st century mothers have all been advised by their lawyers that they risk losing custody if they make such an allegation. Even so, these mothers still lost custody of the children they were trying to protect.</p> <p>Jennifer Collins, Holly's daughter, has created a <a href="http://www.courageouskids.net/">website</a> for children who, like her, are living "<a href="http://americanchildrenunderground.blogspot.com/">underground</a>." Both Jennifer, who is working as a para-legal, and Holly, led a workshop at the conference.</p> <p>The work I began in 1976, when I testified in my first custody case for a mother and when I worked with "protective" mothers in the 1980s,continues. Now, there is a growing movement underway. I salute all those who are part of it.</p> <p><b>Related Topics:</b> <a href="http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/topics/4/motherhood-custody">Motherhood & Custody</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-79055571013590336972013-05-13T12:28:00.001-05:002013-05-13T12:28:14.454-05:00THE WASHINGTON POST: Battered Mothers Custody Conference This Weekend Shine Light On Child Custody Abuse<h5><a href="http://www.batteredmotherscustodyconference.org/BMCC%20Tenth%20Anniversary%20program%205-7-13.pdf">Battered Mothers</a> Custody Conference </h5> <h5>Conference shines light on plight of battered mothers seeking custody</h5> <p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/conference-shines-light-on-plight-of-battered-mothers-seeking-custody/2013/05/10/8a2830fc-b8f1-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_story.html" target="_blank">Board</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/conference-shines-light-on-plight-of-battered-mothers-seeking-custody/2013/05/10/8a2830fc-b8f1-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_story.html#license-8a2830fc-b8f1-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8"></a>Published: May 10</p> <p><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/150419_120336854824418_682889903_n.jpg" width="686" height="552" /> </p> <p> </p> <p>THE BATTLES over child custody that unfold in courtrooms across the United States don’t get much attention. If a celebrity is involved, there might be headlines, but publicity is generally shunned out of the not-unreasonable urge to protect the privacy of children. Unfortunately, though, that has tended to shroud problems in how these critical decisions are made. That’s why a conference focusing attention this week on systemic issues in family court is so important.</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.batteredmotherscustodyconference.org/BMCC%20Tenth%20Anniversary%20program%205-7-13.pdf">Battered Mothers</a> Custody Conference started Friday at George Washington University Law School and concludes Sunday with a vigil at the White House. It brings together victims of domestic abuse, advocates and experts in an effort to reform a system they say doesn’t do enough to protect children. Too often, said organizers of the event, which is now in its 10th year, custody or access in contested cases where domestic violence has been alleged is given to abusive fathers because of a misguided emphasis on parental rights that discounts or disbelieves the concerns of women who have been battered. Victimized parents, often suffering from trauma caused by the abuse, are bankrupted and punished for fighting for their children.</p> <p>“Cascading disasters and shattered lives are predictable and inevitable,” said Eileen King, executive director of Child Justice in the District and a speaker at the conference. She pointed to the case of 15-month-old Prince McLeod <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/montgomery-court-system-failed-prince-mcleod-rams/2013/01/25/30987302-673f-11e2-85f5-a8a9228e55e7_story.html">Rams</a>, allegedly drowned by his father after his mother unsuccessfully tried to block unsupervised visits, and the infamous deaths in 2008 of <a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2009-10-25/news/0910240118_1_cheryl-wharton-amy-castillo-room-service">Amy Castillo’s</a> young children by a father she warned was dangerous.</p> <p>Mo Hannah, a psychologist at Siena College near Albany, N.Y., who helped start the conference because of her own divorce experience, said the broad-based coalition of people who attend the event collects data on the extent of the problems, provides support and, most important, advocates for better practices in how decisions are made and monitored.</p> <p><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/525229_121867651338005_1910821126_n.jpg" width="670" height="379" /></p> <p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/conference-shines-light-on-plight-of-battered-mothers-seeking-custody/2013/05/10/8a2830fc-b8f1-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_story.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/conference-shines-light-on-plight-of-battered-mothers-seeking-custody/2013/05/10/8a2830fc-b8f1-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_story.html</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-2007172853388845362013-04-23T18:41:00.001-05:002013-04-23T18:41:48.267-05:00Mothers Loosing Custody: Kelly Rutherford on Her Ongoing Custody Battle, the Battered Mothers Custody Conference<h3> </h3> <h3><a href="http://www.katiecouric.com/on-the-show/2013/04/19/kelly-rutherford/" target="_blank">Kelly Rutherford on Her Ongoing Custody Battle</a></h3> <dt><a name="#2"><img alt="Kelly Rutherford Children Photo" src="http://cdn.katiecouric.com/media/2013/04/132101_DSC9410_KellyRutherford_630.jpg" width="630" height="354" /></a></dt><dt>Kelly has been locked in a bitter custody battle with her ex-husband since their divorce in 2010 and last</dt><dt>September a judge ordered the children to live with their father in France.</dt><dt>  <p><font size="4">Kelly Rutherford writes from her heart on why her ongoing child custody battle represents a greater legal issue. We asked Kelly’s ex-husband, Daniel Giersch, for a statement on the show and his attorney, Fahi Takesh Hallin, responded, “Daniel Giersch continues not to comment publicly about the parties’ custody case, in order to protect the children’s privacy.”</font></p> <p><font size="4">I am sharing my story with the world so that no other mother has to experience the pain and suffering that I am going through. We have a flawed legal system and there needs to be a change.</font></p> <p><font size="4">Although I did everything within my power to facilitate a positive relationship between my ex-husband and our children, and although I traveled far and wide to facilitate a shared custodial arrangement with my ex-husband, a judge effectively deported my two (2) minor children to accommodate a man who had his VISA revoked, for reasons unknown.</font></p> <p><font size="4"><strong>Without any inquiry as to why my ex-husband’s VISA was revoked, the Judge forced my young children, both of whom are US Citizens to reside in France, even though the children have no relationship to France, nor is their father a French citizen. Although, NY was the only home my children have ever known and the children’s own counsel recommended that the children be allowed to stay in the United States with me, the Judge made a decision in direct contravention of expert opinion.</strong></font></p> <p><font size="4">Although my children are US citizens, the fact that they reside in France places them in legal peril. The longer they remain in France, the greater the chance becomes that they are afforded the status of French residents. This is particularly dangerous because France is in no way obligated to respect and/or enforce judicial determinations made in US Courts. In essence, French officials could modify a custody and visitation decision at any time, without any legal recourse for me or my children. Change needs to happen now.</font></p> <p><font size="4"><a href="http://www.BatteredMothersCustodyConference.org">www.BatteredMothersCustodyConference.org</a></font></p> <p> </p> <p>Video one here: <a href="http://www.katiecouric.com/videos/kelly-rutherford-custody/">http://www.katiecouric.com/videos/kelly-rutherford-custody/</a></p> <p>Video two here: <a title="http://www.katiecouric.com/on-the-show/2013/04/19/kelly-rutherford/" href="http://www.katiecouric.com/on-the-show/2013/04/19/kelly-rutherford/">http://www.katiecouric.com/on-the-show/2013/04/19/kelly-rutherford/</a></p> <p> </p> <dl><dt><a name="#1"><img alt="Kelly Rutherford Photo" src="http://cdn.katiecouric.com/media/2013/04/132101_DSC9485_KellyRutherford_630.jpg" width="630" height="354" /></a></dt><dt>“Gossip Girl” star Kelly Rutherford sits down with Katie to speak out about her custody battle that’s making headlines.</dt></dl> <p>Kelly Rutherford’s lawyer, Amanda Shaked, explains the steps she’s taking to get Kelly’s kids back.</p> </dt> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-3167563099533951202013-04-14T17:01:00.001-05:002013-04-14T17:01:06.275-05:00A Nation of Motherless Children? Father's Rights <p dir=ltr><a href="http://janiemcqueen.com/a-nation-of-motherless-children/">A Nation of Motherless Children? | Janie McQueen, Author and Divorce Gamesmanship Expert</a></p>
<p dir=ltr>A Nation of Motherless Children?<br>
http://janiemcqueen.com/a-nation-of-motherless-children/</p>
<p dir=ltr>"In some of the more severely manipulated cases, the tables were turned on mothers who sought to protect their children from abusive fathers; they were punished in family court and by the abusive parent. </p>
<p dir=ltr>Many are limited to a couple hours’ supervised visitation every two weeks. They don’t have the privilege of shaking on the bleachers with the rest of us, who naturally take such excursions for granted. Many times there’s a protective order that would keep them from attending even public events such as this, when all they long to do is see their children in action, and enjoy a game to break up a brutal week of missing their children.</p>
<p dir=ltr>...What kind of man goes to every length and expense possible to deny his children a healthy, some would say critical, portion of motherly love in their lives? Or not even that–what kind of man begrudges his ex any meaningful contact with her own children? Is this not evidence he could be lacking as a father? If not, why? Sorry about that failed relationship, man, but the children from it remain. Lucky you to have a magic wallet to make it all go away.</p>
<p dir=ltr>It’s time to stop treating kids as chattel instead of children."<br></p>
<p dir=ltr>Janie McQueen's Book on How Family Court Is A Game:<br>
Hanging On By My Fingernails: Surviving the New Divorce Gamesmanship, and How a Scratch Can Land You in Jail</p>
<p dir=ltr>In this daring, groundbreaking book, journalist Janie McQueen unveils the truth behind the "new divorce gamesmanship"--vicious tactics that thrust victims into complex webs of legal tangles that destroy spirits and hobble divorce cases. </p>
<p dir=ltr>These surprisingly common--and legally deadly--ploys can and often lead to criminal charges and trials, lingering records, heartbreaking child custody battles, embarrassing distortion campaigns, and even unemployment as employers increasingly trawl the Internet for background checks.<br></p>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-23668676256894595762013-04-12T20:35:00.001-05:002013-04-12T20:35:07.177-05:00Anatomy of a Broken Heart<p><a href="http://angelzfury.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/brokenbrokenheart26794260520523.jpg"><img style="border-bottom:0;border-left:0;display:inline;border-top:0;border-right:0;" title="Broken-broken-heart-26794260-520-523" border="0" alt="Broken-broken-heart-26794260-520-523" src="http://angelzfury.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/brokenbrokenheart26794260520523_thumb.jpg" width="243" height="244" /></a> <a href="http://angelzfury.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/brokenheartwallpapers42.jpg"><img style="border-bottom:0;border-left:0;display:inline;border-top:0;border-right:0;" title="Broken Heart Wallpapers-42" border="0" alt="Broken Heart Wallpapers-42" src="http://angelzfury.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/brokenheartwallpapers42_thumb.jpg" width="244" height="184" /></a>  </p> <h3>Anatomy of a Broken Heart: A Screenplay</h3> <p>Posted on <a href="http://janiemcqueen.com/anatomy-of-a-broken-heart-a-screenplay/">April 3, 2013</a> by <a href="http://janiemcqueen.com/author/jmcqueen/">JMcQueen</a></p> <blockquote> <p><em> ”Ma’am, give him the children and there won’t be any trouble. Alright? Do you understand? Just give Mr. Duckworth the children.”–Kentucky State Trooper Elliot</em></p> </blockquote> <p>Brash talk show host <strong>Wendy Williams</strong> profoundly angered a multitude of mothers–custodial and non-custodial alike–with a flippant remark on her TV show yesterday. She devoted a portion of her show toward lambasting beleaguered Texas mom <a href="http://janiemcqueen.com/a-nation-of-motherless-children/"><strong>Pilar Sanders</strong></a><strong>, who  lost custody of her three children to football hero Deion Sanders last month, for her emotional distress.</strong></p> <p>Williams contemptuously declared: <strong>”When a man gets custody, the mother is full of crazy.”</strong> She concluded by saying,  ”I would say good luck, but I’ll just say oh well.”</p> <p>That Williams is a mother herself isn’t the only reason for outrage; in her big booming voice she embodies the lack of empathy, of understanding, of the plight of so many mothers who are losing their children to a lopsided legal system. <strong>This system continually, and increasingly, favors the fathers–to the point of literally taking the children away from their mothers forever. And then society steps in to join the condemnation by ridiculing the bereft mother’s pain and laughing and scoffing at her concern for her children and her pleas for justice.</strong></p> <p>Playwright/scriptwriter Christopher Karr wrote a poignant, spot-on (because he was there) screenplay chronicling the day his younger siblings from his mother <a href="http://janiemcqueen.com/something-is-rotten-in-the-state-of-texas/">Robin Karr</a>‘s second marriage,  Matthew and Laura, were taken away from their home on court orders.</p> <p><strong>Already too old for his years from his experience </strong><a href="http://janiemcqueen.com/a-bright-beam-in-a-dark-forest/"><strong>watching an abusive system punish his mother for protecting all three of her children</strong></a><strong>, Christopher was just a boy of 13 when he wrote this heart-searing screenplay.</strong> Technically powerless to do anything about what he witnessed–as would be anyone–he not only watched in horror but tried his valiant boyish best to intervene.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> ”Matthew and Laura”</p> <p>By Christopher Karr</p> <p>OVER BLACK;</p> <p>INSERT–TITLE CARD</p> <p>This movie is based SOLELY upon a true story.</p> <p>INSERT–IMAGE</p> <p>Photo of MATTHEW (2) and LAURA (1) with their mother ROBIN in a restaurant at a supervised visit in Rockwall Texas. Matthew and Laura have OBVIOUSLY been brutally beaten. Matthew has a black eye and Laura has a large scrape across her forehead. Robin is holding them, forcing a smile.</p> <p><a href="http://janiemcqueen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Robin-Karr-1.jpg"><img alt="Robin Karr 1" src="http://janiemcqueen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Robin-Karr-1.jpg" width="413" height="350" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://janiemcqueen.com/anatomy-of-a-broken-heart-a-screenplay/" target="_blank">READ THE REST HERE</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-3914484574729957012013-04-12T20:30:00.001-05:002013-04-12T20:30:32.488-05:00The Devil’s Advocate<p><a href="http://angelzfury.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/fathersrightsareabusers.jpg"><img style="border-bottom:0;border-left:0;display:inline;margin-left:0;border-top:0;margin-right:0;border-right:0;" title="Fathers Rights Are Abusers" border="0" alt="Fathers Rights Are Abusers" src="http://angelzfury.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/fathersrightsareabusers_thumb.jpg" width="416" height="390" /></a> <a href="http://angelzfury.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/devilfathers.jpg"><img style="border-bottom:0;border-left:0;display:inline;border-top:0;border-right:0;" title="devil fathers" border="0" alt="devil fathers" src="http://angelzfury.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/devilfathers_thumb.jpg" width="381" height="382" /></a> </p> <p> </p> <p>Posted on <a href="http://janiemcqueen.com/the-devils-advocate/">April 12, 2013</a> by <a href="http://janiemcqueen.com/author/jmcqueen/">JMcQueen</a></p> <blockquote> <p align="left"><em>“Get a life and quit wasting my time and yours.” </em><em>–Texas Fathers’ Rights advocate in response to an inquiry from a woman</em></p> <p align="left"><em>“Be nice and get a grip.” –Delaware Fathers’ Rights advocate two days ago when I politely asked him to remove my address from an email circle</em></p> </blockquote> <p>We’re paring down a recent post to get straight to what everyone wants to know lately: <strong>“How are abusers winning custody of their children and being outrageously successful barring the concerned parents out of their children’s lives forever, without any recourse? Isn’t this a sort of kidnapping?”</strong></p> <p>Yes.  <a href="http://janiemcqueen.com/something-is-rotten-in-the-state-of-texas/">Robin Karr</a> will show you how.</p> <p><a href="http://janiemcqueen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Matthew-and-Laura-with-outfits.jpg"><img alt="Matthew and Laura with outfits" src="http://janiemcqueen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Matthew-and-Laura-with-outfits.jpg" width="717" height="489" /></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Matthew and <a href="http://janiemcqueen.com/someone-is-hurting-our-babies/">Laura Duckworth</a> at one of the <strong><em>few supervised visitations</em></strong> their mother Robin Karr had with them. They’re holding up outfits they wore in the last formal photographs Robin has.</p> <p>These photos appeared in this kidnapping flyer for Judge Sue Pirtle, who was soon voted out of office. However, the damage was done to these children, <strong><font color="#ff0000">who never saw their mother again.</font></strong></p> <p><a href="http://janiemcqueen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Judgee-Pirtle-Wanted-for-Kidnapping.pdf">Judge Pirtle Wanted for Kidnapping</a></p> </blockquote> <p><em><strong>PART ONE:</strong> In which embattled mother Robin Karr goes <strong>undercover as a man named “Chris” to get information about what a Texas Fathers’ Rights organization is doing to keep her from her children</strong>. She knows her abusive, increasingly threatening ex is heavily supported and guided by this group. It is 2002 and she is still trying to get her children back.</em></p> <blockquote> <p><em>At this point the<strong> Fathers’ Rights Guy, heretofore known as FRG, thinks she’s a man as there is no reason to think otherwise. Buddy to buddy.</strong> The pounce is immediate. Notice how quickly FRG seeks to recruit Chris and welcome him into the fold, even as FRG doesn’t know squat about him or his integrity. Heck, he doesn’t even know Chris (“RC”) is a girl.<strong> In his eyes he’s just a guy. And that’s enough.</strong></em></p> <p><i>(Editor’s Note: I’ve flagged some comments for readers’ benefit and the bolding is my own. I’ve removed some verbiage where nothing conveys information of interest to the reader, but I’ve been careful not to alter any context.)</i></p> </blockquote> <p><b>RC:</b></p> <p><a href="http://janiemcqueen.com/the-devils-advocate/" target="_blank">READ THE REST HERE</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-78555921941923521642013-04-11T00:23:00.001-05:002013-04-11T00:23:46.464-05:00Making Light Of The Dark. Battered Mother's Human Right's<p dir=ltr><a href="http://www.salem-news.com/articles/april102013/bonshea-release-tk.php">BONSHEÁ Making Light of the Dark New Book Release - Salem-News.Com</a></p>
<p dir=ltr>Many mothers who seek safety from abuse are routinely prohibited from having even the most basic contact with their own children, not because they were unfit parents, but because they were outspent, out represented, and out-maneuvered in a court atmosphere not prepared to understand the needs of families dealing with domestic violence. To unnecessarily and violently separate a woman and her young children can represent the gravest form of abuse, with major social ramifications in generations to come.</p>
<p dir=ltr>To harass and exhaust a victim through repeated, frivolous court actions aimed at punishing and controlling her, beyond the point where a victim is physically, mentally, or financially able to defend herself, is a form of legal stalking. The family court system, as it is, does not yet recognize this, and the advocacy system is literally not financially able to help these survivors spend thousands and thousands of dollars defending themselves year after year in court.</p>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-41836698969578158902013-03-24T13:19:00.001-05:002013-04-09T23:31:10.875-05:00Using the Blood of Battered Mothers and Children for personal Gain Janice Levinson – Using the Blood of Battered Mothers and Children for Her personal Gain - Protective Mothers Alliance<br />
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<a href="http://janicelevinson.blogspot.com/"><strong>Janice Levinson</strong></a></h3>
<strong>She Will Lure You in and Mercilessly Slaughter You and Your Children</strong><br />
Stay as far away as you can from this very evil very deadly – as in she freely will give all your personal information to you and your child's abuser.<br />
Obviously she is a fake always has been. I know she knows and so does Massachusetts in that <strong>this woman actually did claim abuse when none was there. FALSE ABUSE allegations</strong> that those who have been abused must over come because of people like her.<br />
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<strong>She set her husband up… she NEVER lost her children, HE NEVER kept her children from her…. </strong></blockquote>
Janice used the blood of REAL battered mothers and their children for her own personal gain and selfish agenda.<br />
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Beware….the Propaganda of Deception Janice Levinson. Protective Mothers Alliance and her Partner Bill Windsor Lawless America.<br />
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<a href="http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_BiMtAqb31QDbCLGu5Nu4R3IDlprMqr9-CIZiFmzW36T-FglIJiXSoL7dJ_Gz00uMUtd3R8QkydUEanLDEB9K9V9KAdzmUizM8GoRQSbBbSS-DGlsp116cDtZSFBipfMUgA0Os-ioeBi_/s640/State+of+Deception+Janice+Levinson+Bill+Windsor.jpg" width="491" /></a><a href="http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/">http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/</a><br />
Explore the Nazis' sophisticated propaganda campaigns and their legacy.<br />
These two (<strong>Janice Levinson and Bill Windsor</strong>) are about all you need in hurting people.<br />
<br />Just like Bill, Janice in their sick twisted narcissistic minds try to turn tables back. Classic projection and delusional mind screwing. State of Deception. <br />
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<strong>Both do not care how many bodies they climb over, who they hurt or kill to get to their *perceived* top - whatever that might be. </strong></blockquote>
I will not post that evil bitches blog. <br />But take a look over at joeys for the full article on the latest hell they are causing for more people.<br />
<br />Hitler and his sympathizers. <br />Bill Windsor and Janice Levinson<br />
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<a href="http://joeyisalittlekid.blogspot.com/2013/03/bills-blogs-are-trying-to-attack-us.html">Bill's Blogs Are Trying to Attack Us</a></h5>
***Rolls Eyes up and back***<br />
I have avoided this blog, but I guess we can no longer do that. <br />http://abusiveadvocates.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/protective-mom-bullied/<br />
<br />"<strong>Sheri Westover, a protective mom was recently attacked on Facebook…this is truly horrific, the Joe-PPers (Joeys + AMPP) actually write a letter to the children she has not seen in years, bashing their mother, calling Sheri a racist and openly supporting her alleged abuser and telling the children “<em>we hope you are placed in a good home</em>“."</strong> <br /><strong> </strong>Ummmm, what? No we didn't. We don't even know who she is....or care, much less start writing letters to her children.<br />
<a href="http://joeyisalittlekid.blogspot.com/2013/03/bills-blogs-are-trying-to-attack-us.html">Read the rest here....</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-12108543731740363232013-03-12T19:01:00.001-05:002013-03-12T19:01:15.816-05:00Janice Levinson: When You Play With Wolves<p dir=ltr><a href="http://janicelevinson.blogspot.com/2013/03/janice-levenison-when-you-play-with.html?m=1">Janice Levinson: Janice Levenison When You Play With Wolves</a><br><br></p>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-79184423102477992772013-03-12T16:31:00.001-05:002013-03-12T16:31:02.246-05:00Bill Windsor – Is he Just That Dumb?? Kansas Secretary of State – Is not happy with Lawless America<p> </p> <p>Bill, why don't you give my friend Kris Kobach a call??</p> <p><em> In fact, I Just did – he is not happy that one of his ‘protected mothers’ is being stalked by the the likes of you. </em></p> <blockquote> <p><font size="1">[As per his request I sent the following fake forms with my name on it - from you to him.]</font></p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="645" align="center"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="643"> <p align="center"><font size="1"><strong>Kris Kobach - Secretary of State of Kansas</strong></font></p> <p><img style="margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; display: inline" align="left" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQONNuOvkznwZf3SZqSS8NegnI8l4VSgX_bf6ZICWWMatZxyzOwbsDF1vI9" width="232" height="276" /> </p> <p><font size="1">Kris W. Kobach is the Secretary of State of Kansas. He is also currently of counsel with the Immigration Law Reform Institute, the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. </font></p> <p><a href="https://www.sos.ks.gov/safeathome/main.html" target="_blank"><strong>Safe At Home ACP – Domestic Violence</strong></a></p> <p><font size="1"><strong> Secretary of State of Kansas since 2011 </strong></font></p> <p><font size="1"><strong> Republican Party</strong> </font></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </blockquote> <p>Bill Windsor and Lawless America --- are really that dumb??? You know the old saying “buy em books and buy em books….?”</p> <p>So old Bill is up to his usual “cease and desist” rants…. Gonna sue this, that, him, her, other unseen others, civil, criminal, this, that—</p> <p>So his latest terroristic tactic goes like this…</p> <blockquote> <p>He grabs a bunch of blank forms… fills them in and uploads them and WE are supposed to believe (since Billy never lies) that he has ….again…. filed suit.</p> </blockquote> <p>Another news flash for Bill and his lemmings. Blank forms are not to intimidating. Hell get me a case number a court date and a judges signature.</p> <blockquote> <p>Stupid people are so annoying, especially when they are in ‘melt down.’</p> </blockquote> <ul> <ul> <li>Billy’s <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/1vMOOdoaK0Lwa_fwca8ltLoHRWzH7EkWkT60s1wqXAW7h_n1weGA7V_bo1uVg/edit" target="_blank">rambling post in pdf here</a></li> <li><a href="criminal-warrant-application-claudine-dombrowski.pdf" target="_blank">Claudine Dombrowski</a> fill in the blank form <em>[I am like where did he get THAT address?</em>] People like him are why I am so good at being a ghost.</li> </ul> </ul> <p>My Actual Address <em>[so when you do really file - like that will ever happen]</em> I will be sure to get it. </p> <p>Did you think I was lying??? – Oh I guess since you lie – then others must too…</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjunUv-InOuUKXHoaQXkd-41xptX3nuaafsTqKHHCEmrJFeiFnXJjd0b9_e8lS0I-piAmpL-A82nk7Nrgdd3-Jw4RmVAOEqhsftyAL9J0uOKdnTtxviAmgOmfO9K91Lv4v67jI78mGrR_Y/s1600-h/ACP%25255B25%25255D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="ACP" border="0" alt="ACP" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FiByQ6APvysnRF6qPobQCPxQqCeQYepjNR1wu_vHWUTn3fW4co7hIYBtuAGCIV7Q4iOLRQ_vUC7xMF5dMixy6eni8VzQjguvcx6vfWZhj4drnPhF-yNQj7DErKfYzzdWmOIHw93gecs/?imgmax=800" width="250" height="143" /></a> </p> <p> </p> <blockquote> <h4 align="center">Kansas Secretary of State <a href="https://www.sos.ks.gov/safeathome/main.html" target="_blank">SAFE AT HOME</a></h4> <p>Kansas is one of <a href="https://www.sos.ks.gov/forms/safeathome/ACP_Nationwide_programs.pdf">several states</a> that offers an address confidentiality program. Safe at Home (SaH), enacted in 2006, <strong>provides a substitute address for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking or stalking as well as a free mail forwarding system for all first-class mail.</strong></p> <strong> <p> <br />The program allows qualified participants to use the substitute address (post office box) on all public records instead of the residential address required by many other Kansas laws. </p> <p>Victims can register to vote, obtain a driver's license, etc., without fear that such public records will put them at risk of being located by their abuser. Safe at Home offers participants an extra layer of protection and can be an important part of an overall safety plan.</p> </strong><strong> <p> <br /></p> After you visit our <a href="https://www.sos.ks.gov/resources/resources_faq_sah.html">FAQ</a> and <a href="https://www.sos.ks.gov/resources/resources_links_sah.html">Useful Links</a> page, please <a href="https://www.sos.ks.gov/contact.html">contact us</a> about how we may serve you better.</strong> <ul> <li> <div><a href="https://www.sos.ks.gov/safeathome/how_sah_work.html">How SAH Works</a><img style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" alt="Safe at Home logo" align="right" src="https://www.sos.ks.gov/img/SafeatHomelogo.jpg" width="264" height="255" /></div> </li> <li> <div><a href="https://www.sos.ks.gov/safeathome/sah_enrolling.html">Enrolling</a></div> </li> <li> <div><a href="https://www.sos.ks.gov/safeathome/sah_voter_registration.html">Voter Registration</a></div> </li> <li> <div><a href="https://www.sos.ks.gov/safeathome/sah_laws_regulations.html">Laws & Regulations</a></div> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> <br /></p> <p></p> <p><font color="#ffffff">janice levinson</font></p></blockquote> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-89077654262788096082013-03-02T09:36:00.001-06:002013-03-02T09:36:40.056-06:00Showcases how GAL's destroy mothers and children.<p>Please Share</p> <h3>Immunity for Guardian Ad Litem destroys Connecticut family</h3> <p> <br />Read more: <a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#ixzz2MOeN5szj">http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#ixzz2MOeN5szj</a> <br />Follow us: <a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rw?id=bFUy1y59er4B9Macwqm_6l&u=wtcommunities">@wtcommunities on Twitter</a></p> <p><img alt="Some Guardian Ad Litem's favor abusive and unnecessary billing over what is best for the child." src="http://media.washtimes.com/media/community/viewpoint/entry/2013/03/01/Skipp_family_photo_s640x427.jpg?73b8e21685896c3f2859310aaa5adb253919b641" width="640" height="427" /> Photo: Susan Skipp and her children</p> <p><em><strong>The following post is by guest author, Aine Nistiophain</strong></em></p> <h5><strong>This is part II of a two-part article.  Read Part I, Finding Ground Zero in Connecticut, </strong><a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/feb/28/finding-ground-zero-connecticut-part-i/"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</strong></h5> <p><strong>WASHINGTON</strong>, DC, March 1, 2013 - In Connecticut, the phrase “for the sake of the children” is often thrown around on custody cases involving child victims of violent crimes.  However, cases like 9-year old Max Liberti’s suggest that some family court appointees are more likely to favor the opportunity to continue billing families for unnecessary, even fraudulent services, over what is best for the child.</p> <p>After all, children living in safe environments do not need Guardian Ad Litems (GAL), evaluations, or therapy to protect and rehabilitate them.  When Max disclosed that his father raped him, the GAL and other professionals charged his family a whopping total of $1.5 million for their services. Yet most of the 40+ professionals assigned to his case spent little or no time with Max, or did not know him at all before making recommendations that forever severed his relationship with his mother. </p> <p>Often the court appoints a GAL to advocate for the child’s “best interests” instead of asking the children for direct input. The GAL then bills the parents for asking other strangers appointed onto the case what’s best for the children.   </p> <p>In 2003, the Connecticut court decided that the GAL has the exclusive right to speak on the child’s behalf, yet there are no requirements as to how much time a GAL must spend with their ward.  To clarify the GAL’s role, the court drew the bright line rule that <em>“Just as it is not normally the province of the attorney to testify, it is <strong>not</strong> the province of the guardian ad litem to file briefs with the court.”</em> (<em>In re Tayquon H.,</em> 821 A.2d 796 [Conn. Ct. App. 2003]).</p> <p>While the Judicial Branch provides free certification trainings<a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftn1">[1]</a> for GAL’s, there is no central oversight process in place to review the quality of their work, yet they enjoy qualified immunity for their actions.<a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftn2">[2]</a></p> <p>What exactly is the Judicial Branch training GAL’s to do?</p> <p> </p> <h4>GUARDIAN AD WHO? THE SKIPP-TITTLE CHILDREN</h4> <p>When Susan Skipp’s daughter Gabrielle truthfully disclosed<a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftn3">[3]</a> that her father assaulted her family, Susan was ordered to use the majority of her income to pay the fees of various court appointed professionals she could not afford. Attorney Mary Brigham was appointed as the children’s GAL, and Dr. Kreiger<a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftn4">[4]</a> and Dr. Horowitz<a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftn5">[5]</a> were appointed to assess the family and provide them with therapy. A court issued an order forbidding Susan from speaking to the children about the litigation, seeking domestic violence support for them, or “disparaging” the father who allegedly assaulted them. </p> <p>As GAL, Brigham billed the children’s home at a rate of $300 per hour to represent the children’s wishes and best interests. Billing records show that between September 2010 and November 2011, she billed over 196 hours, including only five meetings with the children.<a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftn6">[6]</a> It’s impossible to tell whether the children met with Brigham alone, how long these meetings were, or what was said.</p> <p>Invoices show during this period, Brigham’s time was largely spent talking to other providers who barely knew the children or recently met them, emailing unnamed parties, speaking to Dr. Tittle and his attorney, and talking about billing matters. Susan was also charged for the time Brigham spent drafting, filing, and successfully prosecuting motions, including as many as three motions she personally filed seeking to hold Susan in contempt for nonpayment of GAL fees. Susan says that last July, Judge Robert Resha held her in contempt, then threatened to incarcerate her if she refused to immediately liquidate her teacher’s retirement pension to pay Brigham $20,000 in fees.  </p> <p>Susan also saw Horowitz and Kreiger’s unorthodox billing practices as red flags that made her doubt the legitimacy of the appointments.</p> <p><em>“</em><em>My divorce agreement states that the parents will see Dr. Krieger for parent counseling. Instead, Dr. Krieger drafted up an agreement for co-parent mediation,” </em>says Susan. This was improper she says, because<em> “Mediation is a legal service that is not covered by health insurance and must be court ordered.”</em></p> <p>Susan says that Kreiger charged Aetna for treatment, despite the fact that she was required to provide him with a $2,500 retainer and pay expenses out of pocket.  She questioned whether Dr. Kreiger was billing for treatments that were unnecessary or improperly performed. </p> <p>“<em>Dr. Krieger also performed psychological evaluations on the family,” </em>Susan says.<em> “Those need to be ordered by the court too, and were outside the scope of his appointment as a counselor.” </em>Susan adds that one such evaluation had flawed results because it was done against medical advice immediately after her car exploded, leaving her hospitalized with head injuries.</p> <p>When Susan requested copies of the records and bills, then questioned Dr. Horowitz and Dr. Krieger’s refusal to address the assaults or the father’s struggles with addiction and the law with the children, both providers recused themselves from the case.<a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftn7">[7]</a> <a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftn8">[8]</a>  However, Brigham then asserted privilege on the children’s behalf, thereby prohibiting Susan from obtaining documentation from either provider.<a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftn9">[9]</a></p> <p><em>“While Kreiger and Horowitz testified in trial that there was no domestic abuse, they both used domestic violence codes when billing Aetna,”</em> says Susan.  Dr. Horowitz testified that he used one medical chart for 2 children, used the wrong billing codes with the insurance company, then failed to inform the parents and the GAL that he had diagnosed the children with serious mental disorders.<a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftn10">[10]</a></p> <p>Brigham decided it was “not in the children’s best interests” to have them testify at trial.</p> <h5>“ARE YOU HERE TO SAVE US?”</h5> <p>Once when their father refused to pick his children up for three days of parenting time, I had the pleasure of meeting Susan’s children. The children seemed traumatized not only by the violent crimes perpetrated against them, but also by the fickle will of the courts to intervene on a moment’s notice and upend their lives without including them in these decisions. Given their isolation and the infrequent, yet intensely hostile interactions between Brigham and the children, it was no wonder they sought answers from me the moment their mother left the room.</p> <p><em>“Are you here to save us?” </em>Gabby asked.<em> “Someone has got to help mom stop my father. We are afraid because he hurts us.”</em></p> <p><em>“No honey,”</em> I told them, <em>“I’m just a journalist, I can’t save anyone.”</em></p> <p>They begged me <em>“Please write something to make Mary Brigham listen so the court will not make us live with my father.”</em></p> <p>My heart was heavy because they too felt the inevitable, that darkness was coming for them, and they knew they were helpless to stop it. </p> <p>With Judge Munro’s trial decision not yet issued, in September 2012 Dr. Tittle sought to permanently sever all of Susan’s parenting rights and access to the children. Judge Gerard Adelman heard testimony that the children refused to visit with Dr. Tittle for the stated reason that they feared for their safety. When Brigham refused to talk to them about these concerns, the children refused to get in the car with her. Brigham told the children she was unconcerned, then demanded they get in the car so she could bring them to Dr. Tittle’s [which they did not do.]  Consequently, Judge Adelman granted Dr. Tittle’s motion for sole custody with the caveat that the court would permanently terminate all of Susan’s parenting rights if she were even 5 minutes late for any future visits.</p> <p>One week later, I attended the hearing on Dr. Tittle’s second motion to terminate Susan’s parental rights.  Judge Munro called Judge Adelman’s orders “draconian,” then criticized Brigham’s role in instigating the proceedings by acting outside the scope of her appointment as Dr. Tittle’s “taxi driver.” As we left the courtroom, Brigham informed me that she had filed her affidavit of fees a month ago. Subsequently, neither I nor the court staff were able to locate Brigham’s affidavit.</p> <p>Ultimately, Judge Munro awarded Dr. Tittle sole custody of the children, then constructed a “set-up-to fail” parenting plan that effectively terminated Susan’s access to the children. Susan retains the right [on paper] to purchase a few hours per week with her children at Visitation Solutions, Inc.,<a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftn11">[11]</a> which is affiliated<a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftn12">[12]</a> with Horowitz and Krieger, and located over an hour away from the home she and her children once shared. </p> <p>Judge Munro denied Susan’s request for alimony, then awarded Brigham $70,000 in fees, despite the fact that Brigham never filed an affidavit disclosing her billing. After Judge Munro recused herself from hearing Susan’s case, Brigham’s subsequent motions to garnish Susan’s wages were denied pending the outcome of Susan’s appeal.<a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftn13">[13]</a></p> <p>Since October 2012, Susan filed for bankruptcy and has not been able to afford to purchase time with her children. Dr. Tittle<a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftn14">[14]</a> has refused to allow the children any contact with their mother, and remains on criminal probation for driving under the influence, reckless driving, and evading responsibility (leaving the scene of an accident.)<a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftn15">[15]</a></p> <p>Brigham has scheduled a status conference for April 4<sup>th</sup> to discuss payment of her fees, garnishment of Susan’s assets and tax returns.</p> <p>Who’s best interests have been served?</p> <p> </p> <h4>IS THERE A COMMON DENOMENATOR?</h4> <p>Horowitz and Dr. Kenneth Robson often conduct the court’s “free” GAL certification trainings together with Judge Munro.  Court records show that when Dr. Kenneth Robson<a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftn16">[16]</a> and Horowitz<a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftn17">[17]</a> are involved and the State is paying, the parents are often ordered not to communicate with their children about the trauma they experience. The GAL exclusively communicates directly with Horowitz about the children’s care, and only the GAL will speak to the children about the litigation.</p> <p><em>“One of the core issues is the qualified immunity GAL’s enjoy, which results in much of the judicial outsourcing to them,”</em> says advocate Peter Szymonik. He points out that a major reason why parents cannot even find relief from excessive GAL fees in bankruptcy is that the court categorizes it as child support, which is nondischargable. <em>“This leads to excessive and unnecessarily billings which permanently financially devastate parents.”</em></p> <p>While Szymonik says the system is biased against fathers, Journalist Keith Harmon Snow has documented over 70 CT cases<a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftn18">[18]</a> where fathers who committed legal offenses, have gained custody of child victims. The mothers were often required to purchase parenting time through outrageously expensive, even corrupt supervised visitation providers, who extorted them out of relationships with their children. Now permanently destroyed and bankrupted by abusive, often deadly State sponsored litigation, these families have no recourse.</p> <p><em>“GALs are, in fact, paid by judges even ahead of child support,”</em> says Szymonik. <em>“</em><em>This translates into a multi-million dollar fraud and state sponsored corruption which is financial devastating families and parents, harming children, and fleecing taxpayers.”</em></p> <p><em></em></p> <p><strong>To additional documentation related this journalist’s investigative report on the Connecticut courts:</strong></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong>http://www.scribd.com/JournalistABC</strong></p> <p><em></em></p> <p><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></p> <p>(1)        2-22-2011 Transcript re: Liberti v. Liberti:</p> <p><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/126529767/Liberti-v-Liberti-Transcript-of-2-22-2011-Hearing">http://www.scribd.com/doc/126529767/Liberti-v-Liberti-Transcript-of-2-22-2011-Hearing</a></p> <p>(2)        CT Resource Group Contract With CT Judiciary re: Court Staff Education:</p> <p>http://www.scribd.com/doc/125730813/Dr-Howard-M-Krieger-s-Contract-With-Connecticut-Judicial-Branch-re-Professional-Trainings</p> <p>(3)        CT Resource Group Court Invoices Part 1:</p> <p>http://www.scribd.com/doc/125725460/Connecticut-Court-Billing-Invoices-Part-1-Dr-Howard-M-Krieger-and-Dr-Sidney-S-Horowitz</p> <p>(4)        CT Resources Group Court Invoices Part 2:</p> <p>http://www.scribd.com/doc/125730381/CT-Court-Billing-Invoices-Part-2-Dr-Howard-M-Krieger-and-Dr-Sidney-S-Horowitz</p> <p>(5)        Dr. Horowitz’s Testimony re: Medical Billing Irregularities (Tittle v. Tittle):</p> <p><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/126272714/Dr-Sidney-Horowitz-Testimony-re-Medical-Billing-Irregularities-Shawn-Tittle-v-Susan-Skipp">http://www.scribd.com/doc/126272714/Dr-Sidney-Horowitz-Testimony-re-Medical-Billing-Irregularities-Shawn-Tittle-v-Susan-Skipp</a></p> <p>(6)        Dr. Horowitz’s Bills re: Boyne v. Boyne:</p> <p><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/126239188/Dr-Sidney-Horowitz-s-Billing-Records-PART-3-Boyne-v-Boyne">http://www.scribd.com/doc/126239188/Dr-Sidney-Horowitz-s-Billing-Records-PART-3-Boyne-v-Boyne</a></p> <p>(7)        Dr. Kreiger’s Documentation re: Tittle v. Tittle:</p> <p>http://www.scribd.com/doc/126588063/Skipp-Kreiger-Documents</p> <p>(8)        GAL Mary Brigham’s Invoices re: Tittle v. Tittle:</p> <p>http://www.scribd.com/doc/125759601/Attorney-Mary-Brigham-s-Billing-on-Shawn-Tittle-v-Susan-Skipp-Case-Middletown-CT-FA10-4022922-S</p> <p>(9)        Maureen Murphy’s billing re: Liberti v. Liberti:</p> <p>http://www.scribd.com/doc/126246491/GAL-Maureen-Murphy-s-bills-re-Liberti-v-Liberti-Guardian-ad-Who</p> <p>(10)      N.J. Sarno’s Billing re: Liberti v. Liberti:</p> <p>http://www.scribd.com/doc/126246254/NJ-Sarno-s-Billing-Invoices-Robert-Liberti-v-Sunny-Liberti</p> <p>(11)      Dr. Robson’s Court Invoices:</p> <p>http://www.scribd.com/doc/122480531/Dr-Kenneth-Robson-s-payment-records-obtained-from-the-CT-Judicial-Branch</p> <p>(11)      Dr. Robson’s Billing re Liberti v. Liberti:</p> <p>http://www.scribd.com/doc/126252311/Dr-Kenneth-Robson-s-Bills-re-Liberti-v-Liberti</p> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <p><a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftnref1">[1]</a> http://www.jud.ct.gov/external/news/AMC_GAL_Training_Poster.pdf</p> <p><a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftnref2">[2]</a> http://www.cga.ct.gov/2013/rpt/2013-R-0098.htm</p> <p><a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftnref3">[3]</a> http://www.scribd.com/doc/126588063/Skipp-Kreiger-Documents</p> <p><a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftnref4">[4]</a> http://www.scribd.com/doc/126588063/Skipp-Kreiger-Documents</p> <p><a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftnref5">[5]</a> http://www.scribd.com/doc/126272714/Dr-Sidney-Horowitz-Testimony-re-Medical-Billing-Irregularities-Shawn-Tittle-v-Susan-Skipp</p> <p><a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftnref6">[6]</a> http://www.scribd.com/doc/125759601/Attorney-Mary-Brigham-s-Billing-on-Shawn-Tittle-v-Susan-Skipp-Case-Middletown-CT-FA10-4022922-S</p> <p><a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftnref7">[7]</a> http://www.scribd.com/doc/126272714/Dr-Sidney-Horowitz-Testimony-re-Medical-Billing-Irregularities-Shawn-Tittle-v-Susan-Skipp</p> <p><a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftnref8">[8]</a> http://www.scribd.com/doc/126588063/Skipp-Kreiger-Documents</p> <p><a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#_ftnref9">[9]</a> http://www.scribd.com/doc/126588063/Skipp-Kreiger-Documents</p> <p><a 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href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#ixzz2MOdzG8MU">http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/heart-without-compromise-children-and-children-wit/2013/mar/1/immunity-guardian-ad-litem-destroys-connecticut-fa/#ixzz2MOdzG8MU</a> <br />Follow us: <a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rw?id=bFUy1y59er4B9Macwqm_6l&u=wtcommunities">@wtcommunities on Twitter</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-85514618328283902152013-02-20T20:25:00.001-06:002013-02-20T20:25:09.509-06:00joeyisalittlekid: William M Windsor: An American Terrorist<small>In <a href="http://angelzfury.wordpress.com/category/domestic-law/">domestic law</a> on <strong><a href="http://angelzfury.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/joeyisalittlekid-william-m-windsor-an-american-terrorist/" target="_blank">February 21, 2013</a></strong> at <strong>2:11 am</strong></small> <p>This is the ‘go to blog’ for updates about the twisted psychopath Bill Windsor and his fake “Lawless America – con game”. Daily updates sometimes twice daily – open comments each post gathering in excess of over 200 un moderated comments. If you want to know — this is the place to go. <a href="http://joeyisalittlekid.blogspot.com/2013/02/william-m-windsor-american-terrorist.html">http://joeyisalittlekid.blogspot.com/2013/02/william-m-windsor-american-terrorist.html</a> <blockquote> <p><em>Kudos to joeysalittlekid and many other blogs, video mixers and so much more. WE ARE the people and we invite free thinking. I am sure that some dictators could be good… but his Fuher Bill y Windsor is most definitely not good for anyone but him self.</em></p></blockquote> <p>This entry is just one of many – one that needs reposted and shared. <p><strong>William M Windsor: An American Terrorist</strong> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzh66h6r7WmObmoL1aQSK7Fzb20td3M01a89e_7siZSAyBmz_p3Ots7I2WxwFQkmdXFAsjg2A4etppgt1JtIRW_VPcqTg2Qdg9O1A-kCmNphA2ROPevWNQjs5MjYUcoasXOVDGbIVKbvc/s1600/american_terrorist.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzh66h6r7WmObmoL1aQSK7Fzb20td3M01a89e_7siZSAyBmz_p3Ots7I2WxwFQkmdXFAsjg2A4etppgt1JtIRW_VPcqTg2Qdg9O1A-kCmNphA2ROPevWNQjs5MjYUcoasXOVDGbIVKbvc/s320/american_terrorist.jpg" width="320" height="215"></a> <p>So I have been doing some reading up. First, on the latest over at Quatloos about Billy: <p><a href="http://www.quatloos.com/Q-Forum/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=7690&hilit=windsor&start=40">http://www.quatloos.com/Q-Forum/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=7690&hilit=windsor&start=40</a> <p>As you can see, these guys have been <a href="http://joeyisalittlekid.blogspot.com/2013/02/william-m-windsor-american-terrorist.html#">following</a> him along with a hoard of other characters they all call a part of the Sovereign Citizen Movement. This got me to really thinking back to when Windsor devoted an hour of filming to his buddy Carl Swensson of the Birther Movement. Then I ran across this article: <p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2009/04/01/birthers/">http://www.salon.com/2009/04/01/birthers/</a> <p>Did you catch that? He pulled this citizen grand jury on the very day, April 1st, that Billy has announced he will do his own version on. Obviously Carl is advising him on this. Windsor is trying to learn from the mistakes Carl did in limiting it to just the Birther movement. The Why isn’t important, its the end result that matters. This is why Windsor is allowing any and everything into his fake movie. We can go from a guy who wants his cybersquatting rights, to mothers trying to get their kids back, to a guy trying to make his own currency and then to a slum lord trying to put up big billboards wherever he wants. There is nothing that connects these people other than they<a href="http://joeyisalittlekid.blogspot.com/2013/02/william-m-windsor-american-terrorist.html#">agree</a> with Billy’s preamble that the court system is broken and needs to be fixed. As long as you agree to that tenant, you are on his team. Your particular issue matters not, just the end goal. <p>But lets get back to this Sovereign Citizen Movement that all these characters seem to fit under. The FBI considers the SCM a domestic terrorist group and a growing threat to law enforcement. <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/law-enforcement-bulletin/september-2011/sovereign-citizens">http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/law-enforcement-bulletin/september-2011/sovereign-citizens</a> <blockquote> <p>"They could be dismissed as a nuisance, a loose network of individuals living in the United States who call themselves “sovereign citizens” and believe that federal, state, and <a href="http://joeyisalittlekid.blogspot.com/2013/02/william-m-windsor-american-terrorist.html#">local</a>governments operate illegally. Some of their actions, although quirky, are not crimes. The offenses they do commit seem minor"</p></blockquote> <p>"However, a closer look at sovereign citizens’ more severe <a href="http://joeyisalittlekid.blogspot.com/2013/02/william-m-windsor-american-terrorist.html#">crimes</a>, from financial scams to impersonating or threatening law enforcement officials, gives reason for concern." <p><strong>And they conclude with this:</strong> <blockquote> <p>"Although the sovereign-citizen movement does not always rise to violence, its members’ illegal activities and past violent—including fatal—incidents against law enforcement make it a group that should be approached with knowledge and caution"</p></blockquote> <p><strong>Lets look at what the Anti-Defamation League has to say about this movement and the similarities we can see in Billy:</strong> <p><a href="http://archive.adl.org/learn/ext_us/SCM.asp?xpicked=4">http://archive.adl.org/learn/ext_us/SCM.asp?xpicked=4</a> <blockquote> <p>"The key distinguishing characteristic of the sovereign citizen movement is its extreme anti-government ideology, couched in conspiratorial, pseudohistorical, pseudolegal and sometimes racist language. Many extremist movements in the 20th century have been anti-government in the sense that they opposed governmental policies, but few have been so purely anti-government that they challenged its very legitimacy"</p></blockquote> <p><strong>This sounds like our guy doesn’t it?</strong> <p>"Members of the Posse Comitatus believed that the county was the true seat of government in the United States. They did not deny the legal existence of federal or state governments, but rather claimed that the county level was the "highest authority of government in our Republic as it is closest to the people." The basic Posse manual stated that there had been "subtle subversion" of the Constitution by various arms and levels of government, especially the judiciary." <blockquote> <p><em>Uh huh, this is why he wants people in all 3,300 counties across the nation to bring the charges at the county level</em>.</p></blockquote> <p><strong>Paper Terrorism</strong> <p>"Yet despite a pattern of violent activity, the preferred weapon of members of the sovereign citizen movement is what has come to be called "paper terrorism." Paper terrorism involves the use of fraudulent <a href="http://joeyisalittlekid.blogspot.com/2013/02/william-m-windsor-american-terrorist.html#">legal documents</a> and filings, as well as the misuse of legitimate documents and filings, in order to intimidate, harass and coerce public officials, law enforcement officers and private citizens" <blockquote> <p><em>There is our boy Billy to the T. And don’t forget his illegal use of a 501c3 non-profit.</em></p></blockquote> <p>"One of the first tactics of the resurgent sovereign citizen movement was the formation of vigilante "common law courts." Members of these courts used them as a forum for grievances against the "de facto" government or for assistance in attempts to harass their enemies" <blockquote> <p><em>Yep, this is exactly where we are headed with this next phase in the Lawless Terrorist Network.</em></p></blockquote> <p>"The filing of frivolous lawsuits and liens against public officials, law enforcement officers and private citizens, on the other hand, has remained a favorite harassing strategy. These paper "attacks" intimidate their targets and have the beneficial side effect of clogging up a court system that sovereign citizens believe is illegitimate." <blockquote> <p><em>OMG, just stop it, this is way to accurate and telling.</em></p></blockquote> <p>So, as you can see, this is who Bill Windsor is, and this is also where we are headed. When the lemmings file their made up charges against law enforcement officials, they will be engaging in domestic terrorism along with Bill. And it needs to be overstated that everyone involved with Lawless America is connecting themselves with terrorist activities specificity delineated by the FBI. Ignorance is no excuse. You either wake up now, or finally figure it out when you are behind bars. The Pied Piper is leading you down a patch of certain destruction. <blockquote> <p>Hop on over to joeyisalittlekid and <a href="http://joeyisalittlekid.blogspot.com/2013/02/william-m-windsor-american-terrorist.html?showComment=1361289463389#c5010893843812507747">read and leave a comment!</a></p></blockquote> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-37048867020938880142013-02-20T17:52:00.001-06:002013-02-20T18:00:34.011-06:00 Court Rules Human Rights Violation of Mother's whos babies taken away <p dir=ltr><a href="http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-21506953">BBC News - Mothers' rights 'breached' after babies taken into care</a></p>
<p dir=ltr>Mothers' rights 'breached' after babies taken into care</p>
<p dir=ltr>Two women whose new-born babies were taken into care have won a court ruling that their human rights were breached.</p>
<p dir=ltr>The mothers sought a judicial review after Renfrewshire Council and Glasgow City Council were granted protection orders by local sheriffs.</p>
<p dir=ltr>In both cases, the women were not given any notice or represented in court.</p>
<p dir=ltr>The Glasgow case involved a woman who had a history of prostitution and drug-taking. The other involved an 18-year-old who had parental care issues.</p>
<p dir=ltr>In the Renfrewshire case, it was noted that the teenage mother had a previous child in March 2009.</p>
<p dir=ltr>Supervision order</p>
<p dir=ltr>The child went home two days after the birth but was back in hospital a week later "due to lack of parental care".</p>
<p dir=ltr>The baby was given to foster carers and made the subject of a supervision order in August of the same year.</p>
<p dir=ltr>When the teenage mother became pregnant again, Renfrewshire Council warned her that they intended to take the child away at birth.</p>
<p dir=ltr>Her lawyer tried to lodge a caveat at the local sheriff court - a procedure which should guarantee a hearing before a decision is made.</p>
<p dir=ltr>The Court of Session in Edinburgh heard that the sheriff refused to allow such a move after her son was born in July 2010.</p>
<p dir=ltr>The Glasgow case involved a woman who had a history of drug-taking, prostitution and homelessness.</p>
<p dir=ltr>Lord Brailsford heard that she gave birth in 2004 and the baby was given to her mother to look after.</p>
<p dir=ltr>The judge noted that a report by social workers at the time concluded she did not have the capacity to care for the child.</p>
<p dir=ltr>"She showed no real bond with the child, had no idea of the child's needs and needed constant supervision over parental care issues," said Lord Brailsford.</p>
<p dir=ltr>The woman gave birth again in 2009 and midwives at the hospital expressed "serious concerns".</p>
<p dir=ltr>Mother attacked</p>
<p dir=ltr>Less than a week later the child was placed on the Child Protection Register.</p>
<p dir=ltr>The following April a Children's Hearing placed the child under supervision.</p>
<p dir=ltr>The Court of Session heard that the mother was attacked by the child's drug addict father while she was pregnant.</p>
<p dir=ltr>A case conference of social work child protection officers, police, a midwife and a psychologist decided to seek a Child Protection Order for the third baby as soon as possible.</p>
<p dir=ltr>The mother knew Glasgow City Council planned an application to a sheriff but she too was refused permission to lodge a caveat the day after her son was born, again in July 2010.</p>
<p dir=ltr>In both cases, sheriffs made orders to take the boys away without giving the mothers any notice and without them being represented.</p>
<p dir=ltr>Lord Brailsford noted that there were two issues involved in the cases.</p>
<p dir=ltr>The first was whether the mothers had a right to put their case to a sheriff.</p>
<p dir=ltr>The other question was whether, in all the circumstances, it was right to make the orders the local authorities wanted.</p>
<p dir=ltr>The women's case was based on provisions in the European Convention on Human Rights guaranteeing respect for family life and the right to a fair hearing.</p>
<p dir=ltr>Family life</p>
<p dir=ltr>Lord Brailsford was told that previous court challenges in Finland and Germany had led to rulings that it was a violation of the Convention Rights if it were possible to hear a parent's case without putting the child at risk.</p>
<p dir=ltr>The judge was also told that the women could have appealed against the orders at sheriff court level, without involving the Court of Session.</p>
<p dir=ltr>Lord Brailsford rejected the claim that the women should have been allowed to lodge caveats, saying their right to be heard did not come into play at that early stage.</p>
<p dir=ltr>He did conclude, however, that their right to enjoy family life had been affected.</p>
<p dir=ltr>"Both parties were prepared and ready for a hearing. There was no immediate risk or threat to the children," said the judge.</p>
<p dir=ltr>"A hearing could, in any event, have been dealt with and arranged expeditiously by the sheriff court if required."</p>
<p dir=ltr>Another hearing is expected, to decide what Lord Brailsford's decision could mean in practical terms for the women and the authorities.</p>
<p dir=ltr>The hearing will also address the issue of who will have to pay legal costs.</p>
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Vagina Monologues<p><font size="1">By <a href="http://dailytrojan.com/2013/02/12/monologues-brings-attention-to-domestic-violence/" target="_blank">ALYSSA COFFEY</a></font></p> <p>The movement known as V-Day began 14 years ago from the “outrageous idea that we could end violence against women.” This goal, as described above by V-Day pioneer Eve Ensler, has created a new culture celebrated at USC with the annual production of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vagina_Monologues"><em>The Vagina Monologues</em></a>.</p> <p><img style="margin: 0px 15px 5px 0px; display: inline" align="left" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Vagina_Monologues_Poster.jpg/200px-Vagina_Monologues_Poster.jpg" /></p> <p>According to <a href="http://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/">the Family Violence Prevention Fund</a>, one in three women will face sexual or physical assault in her lifetime. For 2013, V-Day sought to emphasize that ending violence against women is a global battle with the theme One Billion Rising.</p> <p><em>The Vagina Monologues</em> provides an artistic medium to raise awareness about these issues of violence through camaraderie and comedy, by way of vaginas. V-Day aims to raise campus awareness within the student body concerning the problems faced by students with vaginas by engaging the campus in the show and reducing the stigma of discussion surround vaginas.</p> <p>Samantha Brown, the current director of the production,  said she became involved because the organization has gotten smaller since people have graduated. She believes the show to be insightful and that everyone should see it. Since USC once hosted the author of <em>The Vagina Monologues,</em> the goal is to revitalize the organization to its greatest period of involvement seen in 2009.</p> <p>Francesca Bessey, a sophomore majoring in narrative studies and international relations, said she was drawn to her involvement with V-Day and <em>The Vagina Monologues</em> in an effort to exemplify how diverse the student body is and to engage issues of gender, race and sexual violence which are underrepresented at USC.</p> <p>The monologues, with names like “Hair” and “My Vagina Was My Village,” range in tone from comedic to heartfelt, emotions that will be communicated by the cast of 28 students. The female-identified cast was recruited and auditioned late last semester, with directors Alexis Agolsove and Katelyn Morse  matching them with particular monologues. The cast has been diligently rehearsing for the show at the Village Gate Theater.</p> <p>Brown hopes that attendees will feel compelled to stand up this year and join One Billion Rising after seeing the show. The show looks not only to enlighten but also enliven in this way.</p> <p>To contribute to the movement at large, V-Day at USC is supporting programs actively engaged in work against domestic violence. All of the proceeds from <em>The Vagina Monologues</em> will benefit V-Day USC’s nonprofit partner,<a href="http://www.awbw.org/awbw/donate-event_detail.php?id=198">A Window Between Worlds</a>. This is a nonprofit that works to use art to combat domestic violence and facilitates the healing and empowerment of survivors through their creative expression projects.</p> <p>The organization’s curriculum of renewing art has helped over 74,000 women and children since 1991. As a contribution to V-Day’s One Billion Rising effort, A Window Between Worlds developed its own project called “I Can We Can” where people create art on their palms expressing what they can do to fight, bring awareness to or overcome different forms of gender violence we encounter.</p> <p>After creating their piece, people are invited to upload an image to the catalogue of images on A Window Between Worlds’ website, which functions as a compilation of action-worthy statements regarding the movement against domestic violence. People will be able to participate in this project both at <em>The Vagina Monologues</em> show and later in the semester on Trousdale Parkway.</p> <p>Other productions of <em>The Vagina Monologues</em> and the movement at large have raised more than $90 million, benefited numerous community-based programs dedicated to anti-violence causes and helped to sustain shelters among other philanthropic efforts. The V-Day campaign has been acknowledged for its outstanding charitable work in publications including <em>Worth’s</em> 100 Best Charities and <em>Marie Claire’s</em> Top 10 Charities.</p> <p>Despite its unique and slightly risque title, <em>The Vagina Monologues</em> is a production well worth seeing this Valentine’s Day weekend.</p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-70482207320254824172013-01-16T12:35:00.000-06:002013-04-09T23:30:09.816-05:00Bill Windsor Turns Up the Heat With Intimidation<h5>
from <a href="http://joeyisalittlekid.blogspot.com/2013/03/bully-bill-turns-of-heat-with.html" target="_blank">joeyisalittlekid</a></h5>
<em>I really hope that Lexington, MO. Law Enforcement Follows this freek-zoid so close he gets hemorrhoids! </em><br />
<em>The ONLY reason he posts this garbage and would spend 5 days prior to his Protection Order Hearing is to intimidate and harass. Just yet another of the already many violations of the current temporary orders to stay away.</em><br />
<em>Please go to <a href="http://joeyisalittlekid.blogspot.com/2013/03/bully-bill-turns-of-heat-with.html" target="_blank">full article</a> the below are <snips></em><br />
<a href="http://joeyisalittlekid.blogspot.com/2013/03/bully-bill-turns-of-heat-with.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV4aBoJY8PJ6ztu3CSd5HLUv8g_uUMZxUCyaYaR0aVveaQaaDHbA4RrmGqtyYekzyj1ZrLiNcq1u1HIbsJOHfD2koT9dcyHCSFts-8Hp0kpcouOYFH-QQ-wmmybtt6Yx9ubJgrPsOknZI/s320/11287722-cyber-bullying-cartoon-with-scared-child-mobile-phone-and-pc.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
<a href="http://joeyisalittlekid.blogspot.com/2013/03/bully-bill-turns-of-heat-with.html" target="_blank">Bully Bill Turns of the Heat With Intimidation, Judge Snooty Chimes in</a><br />
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The most important thing in America seems to be Bill stopping this restraining order against him. <br />
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<strong>DOWNTOWN LEXINGTON MISSOURI</strong> </blockquote>
This is where I will stand trial for allegedly<strong> buying a gun and threatening to use it on a group of people</strong>. <br />
<em><snip></em> <br /><strong> I'll be in Lexington, Missouri from April 4 to April 9.</strong> <br />
<em><snip></em> I will film you along with everyone else as they protest on my behalf, because the first step in taking back our country starts with squashing a TRO in Lexington Missouri (I know, who would have thought). <br />
<strong>Bill then goes on to not so subtlety intimidate Allie: </strong><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawlessamerica">Lawless America</a> I never threatened anyone. If there's any "evidence," it will be manufactured. I have a lot of exciting things in preparation.... <br />Translation: "just wait till you see what I have planned for you Allie"</blockquote>
<strong><a href="http://joeyisalittlekid.blogspot.com/2013/03/bully-bill-turns-of-heat-with.html" target="_blank">READ THE REST HERE</a></strong> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-17572042926148026222013-01-14T14:25:00.001-06:002013-01-14T14:25:39.881-06:00Connecting the Sniper case to family court corruption and federal fatherhood program fraud<p>John Muhammad, a Devoted Dad?<br>Connecting the Sniper case to family court corruption and federal fatherhood program fraud. (Part 1)<br>by Cindy Ross © October 28, 2002 <p><a href="http://www.newsmakingnews.com/ross,cindy10,28,02.htm">http://www.newsmakingnews.com/ross,cindy10,28,02.htm</a> <p>For three weeks in October, the "Beltway Sniper" terrorized the Metropolitan Washington, DC area. Ten people were shot to death and three seriously wounded while they were doing routine activities like shopping, mowing grass, pumping gas, or going to school. The "Sniper" left cryptic and chilling messages referring to himself as "God" and threatening that children were not safe "anywhere, at any time."<br>After 22 days, following leads that took them from Maryland to Alabama and New Jersey to Tacoma, Washington, authorities arrested two suspects. John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17 were found at a rest stop sleeping in their car. Rifles confiscated from Muhammad's vehicle included an XM-15 and ballistic tests linked the rifle to the .223 caliber bullets used to shoot most of the victims.<br>Although John Muhammad has been described as a Muslim sympathetic to the September 11 attacks, a neighbor who knew him in Washington State described him as "... far less interested in talking religion than he was in complaining about his estranged second wife and the custody dispute over their three children". See NY Times, "Once Calmed by Faith, Suspect Turned Furious".<br>URL: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/national/nationalspecial/27RELI.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/national/nationalspecial/27RELI.html</a> <p>The Washington Post described Mr. Muhammad as a twice divorced "frustrated father...whose ex-wives didn't trust him with his children." See Washington Post, "John Allen Muhammad".<br>URL: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14152-2002Oct24.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14152-2002Oct24.html</a> <p>Mr. Muhammad's ex-wives had good reason not to trust him, as well as to be fearful for their safety. In violation of court orders, he abducted his three children (with his second wife Mildred) and took them to Antigua. He later enrolled them in school in Tacoma under false names. According to Mildred Muhammad, John was "a handy gun enthusiast" who "can make a weapon out of anything" and who threatened to kill her. After she finally regained custody in Washington State, Ms. Muhammad fled into hiding in Maryland.<br>According to the NY Times, authorities in Tacoma are reviewing unsolved murder cases that might be linked to John Muhammad. They are especially interested in the death of Keenya Cook, who was shot in the face on Feb. 16 when she opened her front door. Ms. Cook was the niece of a woman (Isa Nichols) who had worked for Mr. Muhammad as a bookkeeper. Ms. Nichols had previously had a falling out with Mr. Muhammad, because she had sided with his ex-wife Mildred in their divorce. See NY Times, "Co-Owner of Car Linked to Sniper Attacks Is Seized in Michigan as a Material Witness".<br>URL: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/national/nationalspecial/27FRIE.html?p">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/national/nationalspecial/27FRIE.html?p</a><br>Despite concerns regarding John Muhammad's potential for violence and his violation of court orders, attorney John S. Mills of Tacoma, tried to help him find the children and regain custody after Mildred was forced to go "underground". According to the Washington Post (see previous linked article), Mr. Mills said of Mr. Muhammad: "He was angry at how he was treated over his kids...He was never able to locate her. That went on for two or three months. Then he vanished."<br>The Washington Post reported that Mr. Mills described Mr. Muhammad as "devastated" by the "loss" of his children. According to Mr. Mills, his client was frustrated when he couldn't find the children, but he did not seem irrational: "He was a very normal, thoughtful, reasonable guy," Mills said. "He tried diligently to work it out. I don't know what people are supposed to do when they run up against a system where they are banging their heads up against the wall and there is no remedy."<br>John Mills' attitude, i.e., that Mr. Muhammad is a "nice guy" justifiably angry at getting caught up in a family court "system" (in which men "lose" children because of anti-father bias), is typical of all so-called "Fathers' Rights" (FR) attorneys. FR lawyers routinely assist abusive men get custody by covering up evidence and dismissing women's reports of abuse and attempts to protect themselves and their children as "false allegations" fabricated to maliciously prevent the father's "access" to the children.<br>Abusive men gaining visitation and custody with the assistance of FR groups and lawyers, is a well documented occurrence in courts across the country, most recently described in this article: See: "Fit California Moms Losing Custody to Abusive Dads published in womensnews.com. <p>URL: <a href="http://womensenews.com/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1080%22%3EClick">http://womensenews.com/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1080</a> The connections between the Fathers' Rights agenda and the systematic bias against and victimization of mothers in courts, has been documented, including in the CA National Organization for Women "Family Court Report 2002", released in June 2002. See California NOW Family Court Report 2002, URL:<a href="http://www.canow.org/fam.html%22%3EClick">http://www.canow.org/fam.html</a> <p>The National Alliance for Family Court Justice, founded in 1993 by Elisabeth (Liz) Richards of Virginia, is a group of volunteers dedicated to addressing system failure in the courts and social services resulting in retaliation against non-offending parents who complain of family abuse, especially mothers of children who disclose sexual abuse. NAFCJ activists have determined that the problem underlying family court corruption is federal program fraud connected to the Fathers' Rights agenda: URL: <a href="http://nafcj.org/%22%3EClick">http://nafcj.org/</a> <p>"Through the efforts of various highly financed Fathers Rights groups affiliated with secret judicial associations of family, conciliation, mediation and juvenile courts, who are united under the guise of promoting non-litigious domestic dispute resolution along with other smokescreen covers such as responsible fatherhood, millions of middle and lower income citizens have been deliberately cheated of their legal right to due process. The efforts of "well-oiled" fathers rights activists who tap into "deep pockets (in their own words) of federal and private grants while traveling North America, Europe and Australia promoting pedophile friendly syndromes such as Parental Alienation Syndrome, have effectively silenced women and children's outcries of brutality, rape and incest to a vast array of professionals in the divorce industry." <p>For a summary of how FR groups and their court allies obtain -- and misuse -- federal program grant funds through DHHS (Access/Visitation programs, DOJ (Arbitration/Mediation) programs, Responsible Fatherhood Programs, Co-Parenting Programs, and other mislabeled court-based federally sponsored “Family Services", please see my summary, originally posted at NewsMakingNews.com in July, 2002, "Family Court Corruption".<br>URL: <a href="http://newsmakingnews.com/ross7,8,02familycourtcorruption.htm%22%3E%C2%A9%3C/A">http://newsmakingnews.com/ross7,8,02familycourtcorruption.htm</a> <p>NAFCJ has obtained program documents regarding the Responsible Fatherhood programs, which show that Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)/Welfare programs are being used to recruit abusive men -- including incarcerated criminals -- into fathers' groups, where they are provided with "benefits" including free or low cost legal services to assist them with getting custody and getting child support obligations reduced or eliminated.<br>NAFCJ has been working with legislators across the country, requesting an investigation at the federal level into Fatherhood and related Child Support Enforcement Program, Access to Visitation Enforcement and Welfare Program fraud. One of the primary programs we have looked into, is the "Devoted Dads" program in Tacoma, Washington.<br>NAFCJ has determined that John Muhammad's former attorney, John Mills, is an attorney for -- and his legal assistant, Mario Young provided paralegal services to "indigent clients" at -- the Devoted Dads program: (See Footnote following this article which excerpts the relevant PDF FILE (Adobe Acrobat required).<br>URL: <a href="http://auditor.co.pierce.wa.us/Elections/Archives/September2001/VP_pdf/fire6pos1.pdf">http://auditor.co.pierce.wa.us/Elections/Archives/September2001/VP_pdf/fire6pos1.pdf</a> <p>Devoted Dads is funded by the Metropolitan Development Council. According to NAFCJ Washington State Director Martha Jacobson, Devoted Dads received at least 1.3 million dollars in federal grants between May 1998 and May 2000. On 8-5-02, in a tape recorded interview with Ms. Jacobson, Doug Swanberg of the Metropolitan Development Council confirmed that Mr. Mills was the "part time attorney" for Devoted Dads. This suggests that John Muhammad -- a "homeless" dad who abducted his kids and then applied for Welfare in Tacoma -- was not only a personal client of Mr. Mills, but was one of the "indigent clients" being provided services and "benefits" through the Devoted Dads program.<br>Ms. Jacobson has also obtained copies of correspondence between Doug Swanberg and David Arnaudo. Mr. Arnaudo is the administrator of the $10 million in federal access grants to the states, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who gave a presentation entitled "How to Obtain Access/Visitation Grants" at the Children's Rights Council National Conference in 1999. URL: <a href="http://www.vix.com/crc/conf/%22%3EChildren's">http://www.vix.com/crc/conf/</a><br>Children's Rights Council is the same organization identified by NAFCJ as the "umbrella" organization of the Fathers' Rights movement, which is cross affiliated with the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC). As described in my article "Family Court Corruption", CRC/AFCC crafted "Parental Alienation Syndrome" (PAS) methodology -- working with "experts" who advocate pedophilia and incest -- as the means to assist child molesters and other abusive men get out of both criminal prosecution and child support obligations, while punishing mothers in supervised visitation and jail for reporting abuse.<br>There are many disturbing questions about the case of John Muhammad:<br>What was the nature of the relationship with John Malvo, a teenaged boy, whose mother "told school officials that something strange and Svengali-like was occurring between Mr. Muhammad and her son John Lee Malvo", who "was said to be devoted to the man, slavishly referring to him as father"? See NY Times, "A Teenager From Jamaica Is Seen as Devoted Stepson",<br>URL: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/26/national/nationalspecial/26MALV.html?p">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/26/national/nationalspecial/26MALV.html?p</a><br>Does the Tarot card left at the scene of one of the murders suggest connections to an occult group such as the Ordo Templi Orientis? See "O.T.O. U.S. Grand Lodge: Welcome to Ordo Templi Orientis", URL: <a href="http://www.otohq.org/oto/%22%3EClick">http://www.otohq.org/oto/</a> <p>Did John Muhammad come to the East Coast because he was told he could receive "assistance" with his own "custody" case from a DC based "fatherhood" group?<br>While we may not have answers to all of our questions regarding the case of the "Sniper", we believe that John Muhammad is exactly the type of "Devoted Dad" that is being assisted by federal programs and funds in custody proceedings across the country, by contracted attorneys like John Mills. And the "terror" inflicted by the "Sniper" is the same type of "terror" inflicted on women and children -- especially abuse victims -- seeking "justice" in family courts.<br>For more information, please visit the NAFCJ website, URL: <a href="http://nafcj.org/">http://nafcj.org/</a> <p>Coming soon:<br>Part 2: More on federal program fraud, conflicts of interest, the National Fatherhood Initiative and HHS Asst. Sec. Wade Horn<br>Part 3: How the California "Conciliation Court Law" is the basis of court corruption and fraud nationwide.<br>Cindy Ross<br>California Director<br>National Alliance for Family Court Justice<br>Email: <a href="mailto:nafcjcal@aol.com">nafcjcal@aol.com</a> <p><a href="http://newsmakingnews.com/ross7,8,02familycourtcorruption.htm%22%3E%C2%A9%3C/A">http://newsmakingnews.com/ross7,8,02familycourtcorruption.htm</a> <p>Please note references to NY Times and Washington Post articles contained in this article, may require "free" registration with these organizations in order to view the articles. <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"> <p><b><u>FOOTNOTE:</u></b> <p>Source: <a href="http://auditor.co.pierce.wa.us/Elections/Archives/September2001/VP_pdf/fire6pos1.pdf">http://auditor.co.pierce.wa.us/Elections/Archives/September2001/VP_pdf/fire6pos1.pdf</a> <p><b>CENTRAL PIERCE FIRE & RESCUE, FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT NO. 6</b> <p><b>COMMISSIONER POSITION 1 SHORT TERM - SIX YEAR TERM</b> <p><b>Mario E. Young</b><br>10409 Canyon Rd E PMB 268 <br>Puyallup, WA 98373 (253) 232-3200 <br><a href="mailto:mosaymo@qwest.net">mosaymo@qwest.net</a> <p><b>Education: </b>Clover Park HS, 1980's. 1990 Griffin College: AAS in Computers and Robotics. 2001 <b>Tacoma</b> Community College: AAS and Legal AssistantCert. Begin Poli-Sci / Philosophy BA at UPS in Fall of 2001. <b>Occupation:</b> Freelance paralegal; Legal Assistant to <b>John Mills</b> WSBA # 15842; Provide legal services to indigent clients at Metro DevelopmentCouncil <b>Devoted Dads</b> program. <b>Professional Qualifications:</b> Been working since I was 16. 8 years in labor- related fields. 4 years as Chimney Sweep: environmental and safety educa- tion surrounding solid fuel heating systems. 6 years in the copier industry: Technical and Management. 6 years as a Sole Proprietor. TCC Administra-tion: Tenure, ADJ Chair Hiring, and ADJ Steering committees. TCC Student Body: President Lambda Juris Club, Senator, and Bylaws Committee. <b>Personal Information:</b>Born and raised in the greater Puget Sound area. Lived in Pierce County since 1969. Divorced Father. <b>Community Involvement:</b> <b>Tacoma</b> Pierce County Bar Association # 407; <b>Devoted Dads</b> Fatherhood Support Group; <b>Tacoma</b> Sportsman Club. <b>Personal Views:</b> Balancing fire safety issues against tax burdens isn't easy.My combined experiences allow me to see all sides of the issues and pro- ceed in an organized fashion. <i>I am committed to protecting our community whileadvocating for lower taxes and limited government.</i></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697522910754853546.post-42911488768302586982013-01-05T21:10:00.001-06:002013-02-20T18:12:24.359-06:00William M Windsor - American Terrorist. Endangering Domestic Violence Victims and Survivors<h3></h3> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong>“Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the Oppressed. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.” -Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor</strong></p> <p><em>“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” -Anne Frank</em></p> <p><em>"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. " <br />-Thomas Paine</em></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://AmericanMothersPoliticalParty.org" target="_blank">American Mothers </a></p> <p>Political Party</p> <p>Any cause, is good when always -- in all that you do, you maintain your <strong>honor,</strong> <strong>dignity </strong>and <strong>self respect</strong>. Life’s guiding tool. I learned this from my <strong>Romanian grandmother and Father who survived the death camps in </strong><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CFgQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhistory1900s.about.com%2Fod%2Fholocaust%2Fa%2Fauschwitz.htm&ei=Z-PoUPi_FuHI2wWy7oCoBQ&usg=AFQjCNHHnsJNxI5KxexGhn-oLe7BCvDdWA&sig2=auowlHFRpbhd0p8Hh"><strong>Auschwitz</strong></a><strong> and then </strong><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CE4QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ushmm.org%2Fwlc%2Fen%2Farticle.php%3FModuleId%3D10005214&ei=quPoULXPMejs2AW-q4GgBw&usg=AFQjCNGVesyH8FcuVV9PoThTiOA8eq1fQg&sig2=WWfrQ6sBkOqhsEZgjCtk5w"><strong>Dachau</strong></a><strong> – when finally they were liberated by the US - my grandfather - 2<sup>nd</sup> wave of Normandy</strong>. The reason I exist is because of the way humanity works when the heart is in the right place.</p> <blockquote> <p>We can learn about ourselves all throughout history. I encourage this as it is besides being interesting, it is repeated. I have had to learn that by abiding to the simple human rights of humanity that <strong>we can, or will, ‘’Rise a Nation’’ in a good cause, or even at minimum, because this is the good battle, the high road, the ultimate justice.</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>I watched a very good miniseries today, <a href="http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/World_Without_End/70260323?trkid=2361637"><b>World Without End</b></a>. Throughout it, I kept thinking of ‘the very notable parallels’ of the sudden 180 turn by Bill on so many people, and in doing so, the use of my website to hide behind for ‘his own’ actions.</p> <p>Throughout my almost two decades of being involved in a inhumane civil <strong>society that rewards for ‘criminal violence’</strong> and continues to perpetrate atrocious human rights violations against any people, usually a ‘category’ of people -- in what I do and with the countless mothers I have personally worked with – is a ‘category’ of people, a holocaustic hatred towards mothers and their children when they try to regain their Human Rights to be free of torture -- only to be tortured further by their tormentor in yet <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/5-family-criminal-law-and-research-abuse-dv-child-custody/72-one-more-battleground-domestic-violence-child-custody-and-the-batterers-relentless-pursuit-of-their-vic"><b>One More Battleground</b></a> of an already full arsenal. Family Court.</p> <blockquote> <p>I do not usually ‘feed’ into those who are so driven with all their time, to try to hurt a ‘category’ of already oppressed people. Real humans know this, so no words are needed, those who do not, no words are adequate. Besides, quite simply, I don’t do drama. </p> </blockquote> <p>In order to carry on -- although Bill has hurt so many through black mail, coercion and has threatened the safety of so many mothers and their children by sharing their intimate and confidential information on the non real world of face book – a dangerous place anyways, because ‘he thinks’ something - and his excuse for ‘his’ own actions and behavior is to ‘hide’ behind American Mothers Political Party website (AMPP). I would ask, “Why would someone do this?” However, I long ago stopped asking that and worrying about those types of people who feed on the frailty of vulnerable people.</p> <p>So with that, I will simply state that American Mothers Political Party (AMPP) and I -- are one in the same. My 1<sup>st</sup> and last (and imo to much) but if it will cease your obsession of endangering mothers or any one for that matter, my statement <i>(and I am being nice - most get a ‘two word’ statement from me when they act like you have)</i></p> <blockquote> <p>I, <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&ved=0CEwQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stopfamilyviolence.org%2Fpages%2F308&ei=fOToUI7gDpP02wXDhoGgDQ&usg=AFQjCNFBBI3BB-31qNJujncv-v6V1057lg&sig2=XGcS_YMJBR3uBxUOaqEqhg&bvm=bv.1355534169,d">Claudine Dombrowski </a>or AMMPP (again only I am AMPP) state that everything you Bill have said about AMPP is and has been and likely to remain “intentionally distorted and inaccurate.” Let the record be clear, <b>I, and I alone maintain the website</b> <a href="http://www.AmericanMothers.PoliticalParty.org">www.AmericanMothers.PoliticalParty.org</a> Bill, you know this – and always have.</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Bill, I have not threatened you, I have not, nor do I have the power to stop your goal. No copy right violations (I do know them, just ask PBS). I had thought, the concept of LA was a good idea, is why it saddened me (when, although I have broad shoulders) that you systematically began removing mothers who have been ‘battered’ by the fathers of their children, in horrendous ways, because you- 'gave them' (bill almighty) a chance to disengage with American Mothers Political Party or to ‘tell’ their side of story, wow!! Talk about demanding and classic black mail - and you do, hold that power - 'control' of fear over them with their personal, sensitive and life threatening information, entrusted to you, a power which you have misused and freely wield. </p> </blockquote> <p>You see, I need no public support, the truth is self-sustained. I will not hurt others to prop myself up. I will not alter, nor publish or intimidate others so basically I just ignore you. As I have with others like you throughout the last two decades, as I am sure will be others in the next two decades. I will not drop everything because you or any other ‘demands’ it. I will not defend myself against ignorance or ‘play’ into the need for self absorption. </p> <p>I will not engage in your feeding frenzy obsession and with American Mothers Political Party as simply, I try to spend my energy doing what I always have, keeping my energy focused on the positive and future real change, for all - as well with a ‘special’ heart held dream of freedom for that 'category' of people - battered mothers and their children.</p> <blockquote> <p>Anyone with any inclination, can research easily, any ones ignorance towards these mothers and the issues surrounding them. For those who do not, no amount of dialogue is possible to change their mind, nor their narcissistic - attention seeking behaviors.</p> </blockquote> <p>So perhaps, maybe you can come back down to reality and realize that all the good you have done you are destroying – hiding behind the ‘hatred of myself and my website American Mothers Political Party’. I have always told mothers, fathers and grandparents and cps victims that there is no ‘messiah’ or any –one sure way to regain so many freedoms lost on top of the already human rights freedoms that Domestic Violence Victims have and continue to endure.</p> <p>It’s just not important to society, dead women and children, terror and fear of those - perpetrated by their most intimate partner, lover and at one time friend. It is a terror a betrayal that is more than just a crime. Simple Human rights. </p> <p>I have not looked today what fear and terror you have stricken in others in the name of yourself, behind the skirt of American Mothers Political Party, but from a email post that you say you received (although was meant for me/ AMPP) and the oddly twisted cognitive thought process to assume that out of that email, you deduce ‘your own’ mantras of what ‘you think’ I said, what you ASSume...</p> <p>I alone, own, operate and maintain <a href="http://www.AmericanMothersPoliticalParty.org">www.AmericanMothersPoliticalParty.org</a> I alone, no one else. Simple enough?</p> <p>Now, you know as do others. Come after me and leave everyone else alone. You can no longer hide behind the ‘skirts’ of amp as to why, with your twisted excuses, of why you are hurting these mothers. </p> <p>Bill - you have already posted my address, email along with so many others. You know where to send your law suits.</p> <p><b><a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/5-family-criminal-law-and-research-abuse-dv-child-custody/79-southern-poverty-law-center-on-the-fathers-rights-movement">Southern Poverty Law Center on the Fathers' Rights Movement</a> </b></p> <p>Listed as a HATE Group e.g. Skin heads, Westborough Baptist Church, Neo Nazi’s etc…<b></b></p> <p>· <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-home">AMPP Home</a></p> <p>· <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv">AMPP Article Library</a></p> <p><a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/8-news-action-alerts-press-release">News and Events</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/8-news-action-alerts-press-release/81-american-mothers-political-party-denounces-dominicks-law-in-michigan">American Mothers Political Party Denounces “Dominick’s Law” In Michigan</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/8-news-action-alerts-press-release/76-monsters-short-animated-video-that-depicts-devastating-view-of-domestic-violence-from-a-childs-perspective-launched-by-verizon-and-national-domestic-violence-hotline">Monsters In the Closet - Domestic Violence From a Child's View</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/8-news-action-alerts-press-release/68-parental-alienation-a-mythical-legal-argument">Parental Alienation: A 'Mythical Legal Argument'</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/8-news-action-alerts-press-release/66-press-release-historic-us-supreme-court-case">PRESS RELEASE: HISTORIC US SUPREME COURT CASE</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/8-news-action-alerts-press-release/62-its-not-angst-over-custody-fathers-kill-their-children-to-punish-their-ex-partners">It’s Not Angst Over Custody: Fathers Kill Their Children to Punish Their Ex-Partners</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/8-news-action-alerts-press-release/61-hearts-across-america-million-mom-march-mothers-day-2011-at-1600-pennsylvania-ave-washington-dc">“Hearts Across America” -- Million Mom March Mother's Day 2011, at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, D.C.</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/8-news-action-alerts-press-release/60-500-million-from-the-fatherhood-initiative-and-hold-congressional-hearings">Cut $500 Million from the Fatherhood Initiative and Hold Congressional Hearings</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/8-news-action-alerts-press-release/59-family-courts-helping-pedophiles-batterers-get-child-custody">Family Courts Helping Pedophiles, Batterers Get Child Custody</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/8-news-action-alerts-press-release/57-stop-violence-against-mothers-and-their-children">UN Mothers UNiTE to End Violence Against Mothers And Their Children Campaign</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/8-news-action-alerts-press-release/55-mothers-of-lost-children-rally-in-washington-dc-february-13th-and-14th-2011">Mothers Of Lost Children Rally In Washington, D.C. FEBRUARY 13th and 14th, 2011</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/8-news-action-alerts-press-release/54--its-about-a-uterus-divorce-papers-and-bruises">Parental Alienation and Domestic Violence</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/8-news-action-alerts-press-release/49-battered-women-abused-children-child-custody-a-national-crisis">Battered Women, Abused Children, Child Custody A National Crisis</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/8-news-action-alerts-press-release/48-msmag-and-realitycheck-slamm-huffpos-censorship-protecting-abusers-warshack">Ms.Mag and Reality Check SLAMM HuffPo’s Censorship Protecting Abusers Tool by Dr. Warshak</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/8-news-action-alerts-press-release/46-failures-of-us-courts-forces-mothers-to-turn-to-international-law">Failures of U.S. Courts Forces Mothers to Turn to International Law</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/8-news-action-alerts-press-release/45-press-release-ampp-stands-behind-christian-coffey-his-mother-and-all-their-supporters">PRESS RELEASE: AMPP Stands Behind Christian Coffey HIS Mother and All Their Supporters</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/8-news-action-alerts-press-release/43-run-mommy-run-help-me-mommy-help-me-daddy-hurts-me">Melinda Stratton: Another Mother 'Hunted' Down</a></p> <p><a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/7-pbs-documentaries-shows-national-media-exposure-abusers-court-crisis-children-at-risk">Multi Media</a></p> <p><a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/7-pbs-documentaries-shows-national-media-exposure-abusers-court-crisis-children-at-risk/47-documentaries-video-index">Documentaries Of Importance</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/7-pbs-documentaries-shows-national-media-exposure-abusers-court-crisis-children-at-risk/38-dr-phil-exposes-the-crisis-in-family-court-">Dr. Phil Exposes the Crisis in Family Court</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/7-pbs-documentaries-shows-national-media-exposure-abusers-court-crisis-children-at-risk/34-interview-with-dominique-lasseur-producer-of-breaking-the-silence-the-childrens-stories">INTERVIEW WITH DOMINIQUE LASSEUR, PRODUCER OF “BREAKING THE SILENCE: CHILDREN’S STORIES”</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms">Family Court Related Research and Articles</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/89-mistakes-mothers-make-in-child-custody-litigation">MISTAKES MOTHERS MAKE in Child Custody Litigation</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/84-top-5-hhs-programs-endangering-women-and-children-billions-of-your-tax-dollars-fuel-it">Top 5 HHS Programs Endangering Women and Children - Billions Of Your Tax Dollars Fuel The Genocide Against Mother's And Her Children</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/83-us-family-courts-sacrificing-mothers-a-children-all-the-usual-suspects-guardian-ad-litems-psychologists-case-managers-custody-evaluators-access-visitation-supervisors-parenting-coordinators-and-therapeutic-jurisprudence">U.S. FAMILY COURTS SACRIFICING MOTHERS & CHILDREN all the usual suspects; Guardian ad Litem’s, Psychologists, Case Managers, Custody Evaluators, Access Visitation Supervisors, Parenting Coordinators, and *Therapeutic Jurisprudence</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/82-endless-tupidity-domestic-violence-victim-advocacy-for-supervised-visitation-centers">Endless $tupidity: Domestic Violence Victim Advocacy For Supervised Visitation Centers</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/75-u-s-department-of-justice-v-custody-court-system">U. S. Department of Justice v. Custody Court System</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/71-when-battered-women-lose-custody-dangerous-parents-or-systems-failure">WHEN BATTERED WOMEN LOSE CUSTODY: Dangerous Parents or Systems Failure?</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/70--dear-custody-court-judge-extreme-custody-decisions-that-risk-lives">Dear Custody Court Judge: EXTREME CUSTODY DECISIONS THAT RISK LIVES</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/67-pas-as-a-religion-parental-alienation-syndrome">PAS as a Religion - Parental Alienation Syndrome</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/65-what-is-fair-for-children-of-abusive-men">What is Fair for Children of Abusive Men?</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/64-want-to-be-a-good-dad-support-mom-and-avoid-fathers-rights-groups">Want To Be A Good Dad? Support Mom And Avoid Father’s Rights Groups</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/63-insanity-nope-its-family-court-">Insanity? Nope, it’s Family Court</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/58-175-killer-dads-fathers-who-ended-their-childrens-lives-in-situations-involving-child-custody-visitation-andor-child-support-usa">175 Killer Dads: Fathers who ended their children's lives in situations involving child custody, visitation, and/or child support (USA)</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/56-batterer-manipulation-and-retaliation-denial-and-complicity-in-the-family-courts">Batterer Manipulation and Retaliation; Denial and Complicity In the Family Courts</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/44-a-cancer-spreading-in-the-custody-court-system">A Cancer Spreading in the Custody Court System</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/42-some-concerns-about-false-allegations-of-abuse-are-accurate">Some Concerns About False Allegations of Abuse Are Accurate</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/41-how-many-children-are-court-ordered-into-unsupervised-contact-with-an-abusive-parent-after-divorce">How Many Children Are Court -Ordered Into Unsupervised Contact With an Abusive Parent After Divorce?</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/39-child-custody-and-visitation-decisions-in-domestic-violence-cases-legal-trends-risk-factors-and-safety-concerns">Child Custody and Visitation Decisions in Domestic Violence Cases: Legal Trends, Risk Factors, and Safety Concerns</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/36-family-court-and-fathers-rights-a-deadly-combination">Family Court and Fathers’ Rights = A Deadly Combination</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/33-mothers-day-proclamation-mothers-of-lost-children-at-the-white-house-on-mothers-day-may-9-2010-">Mother’s Day Proclamation at the White House 1870 and 2010</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/23-maternal-deprivation-brain-scans-monkey">NIMH - Monkey Brain Scans With and Without Mom</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/15-courts-are-biased-against-mothers">Confirmed: Protective Mothers Were Right</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/14-justice-is-biased-the-laws-play-russian-roulette-with-childrens-lives">Justice is biased!! The laws play Russian Roulette with children’s lives</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/13-138-killer-dads-the-fathers-rights-to-kill">138 Killer Dads: Fathers who ended their children's lives in situations involving child custody, visitation, and/or child support (USA)</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/11-high-conflict-cases-likely-have-history-of-domestic-violence">High Conflict Cases Likely Have History of Domestic Violence</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/1-research-articles-family-court-bias-custody-abuse-battered-moms/1-family-law-act-aids-abusive-fathers-imperils-children">Family Law Act Aids Abusive Fathers, Imperils Children</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/3-federal-fatherhood-initiatives-dept-health-and-human-services">Federal Fatherhood Initiatives</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/3-federal-fatherhood-initiatives-dept-health-and-human-services/91-congressional-report-on-fatherhood-funding-used-in-family-courts-child-support-agencies-engaged-in-financial-fraud-senate-finance-committee-hearing-june-2012">TANF Fraud Diverts Billions To Dangerous Unfit Fathers. Healthy Families Initiatives, Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives, Access and Visitation Initiatives</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/3-federal-fatherhood-initiatives-dept-health-and-human-services/37-control-of-women-and-children-under-the-guise-of-qresponsible-married-fatherhoodq">U. S. Fatherhood Initiatives - Control of Women and Children Under the Guise of "Responsible Married Fatherhood"</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/3-federal-fatherhood-initiatives-dept-health-and-human-services/35-how-to-avoid-child-support-and-hurt-the-mother-of-your-children">Attention Judges and Lawmakers: This is the REAL AGENDA of the Father’s Rights Movement</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/3-federal-fatherhood-initiatives-dept-health-and-human-services/25-maternal-deprivation-inflicted-battered-mothers">Maternal Deprivation Inflicted on Battered Women and Abused Children</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/3-federal-fatherhood-initiatives-dept-health-and-human-services/12-senate-judiciary-chairman-response-to-proposed-changes-to-child-custody-law">Senate Judiciary Chairman - Response to Proposed Changes to Child Custody Law</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/3-federal-fatherhood-initiatives-dept-health-and-human-services/10-hearing-to-review-responsible-fatherhood-programs">Hearing to Review Responsible Fatherhood Programs</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/3-federal-fatherhood-initiatives-dept-health-and-human-services/2-the-national-fatherhood-initiative-supporting-a-misogynistic-agenda">The National Fatherhood Initiative: Supporting a Misogynistic Agenda</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/5-family-criminal-law-and-research-abuse-dv-child-custody">Family / Criminal Law and Research</a></p> <p>§ <b><a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/5-family-criminal-law-and-research-abuse-dv-child-custody/79-southern-poverty-law-center-on-the-fathers-rights-movement">Southern Poverty Law Center on the Fathers' Rights Movement</a> A Known HATE Gruop</b></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/5-family-criminal-law-and-research-abuse-dv-child-custody/78-qjust-say-good-byeq-new-study-fathers-kill-children-for-revenge-on-their-mothers-when-the-women-leave-them">"Just Say Good-Bye" New Study -- Fathers Kill Children For Revenge On Their Mothers When The Women Leave Them</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/5-family-criminal-law-and-research-abuse-dv-child-custody/72-one-more-battleground-domestic-violence-child-custody-and-the-batterers-relentless-pursuit-of-their-victims-through-the-courts">One More Battleground: Domestic Violence, Child Custody, and the Batterers’ Relentless Pursuit of their Victims Through the Courts</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/5-family-criminal-law-and-research-abuse-dv-child-custody/69-mothers-on-trial-the-battle-for-children-and-custody-motherhood-under-siege">Mothers On Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody. Motherhood Under Siege</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/5-family-criminal-law-and-research-abuse-dv-child-custody/40-abusive-fathers-are-more-likely-to-seek-sole-custody-in-child-custody-battles">ABUSIVE FATHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO SEEK SOLE CUSTODY IN CHILD CUSTODY BATTLES</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/5-family-criminal-law-and-research-abuse-dv-child-custody/31-coercive-control-how-men-entrap-women-in-personal-life">Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/5-family-criminal-law-and-research-abuse-dv-child-custody/30-court-whores-rape-american-justice">Whores Of The Court and the Rape of American Justice</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/5-family-criminal-law-and-research-abuse-dv-child-custody/21-domestic-violence-abuse-and-child-custody">Domestic Violence, Abuse, and Child Custody</a></p> <p>§ <a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/9-vawa-parental-alienation-syndrome-and-fathers-rig">VAWA, Parental Alienation Syndrome, Fathers Rights</a></p> <p><a href="http://americanmotherspoliticalparty.org/ampp-article-library-family-court-custody-abuse-dv/9-vawa-parental-alienation-syndrome-and-fathers-rig/88-vawa-title-ii-the-entire-missing-section-of-the-vawa-identifying-use-of-pas-legal-strategies-as-violence-against-women-which-endangers-children">VAWA - Title II - The Entire MISSING Section of the VAWA Identifying Use of PAS Legal Strategies as Violence Against Women Which Endangers Children</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00519491961801119854noreply@blogger.com