Pledge to Stop Abuse Campaign

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Video posted as a reason to ignite conversations to stop abuse
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Marching Mothers – Battered Mothers Custody Conference, Mothers Day 2014

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Mother’s Day is traditionally filled with flowers, cards, and sometimes breakfast in bed. Most fathers are honored to honor the mother of their mutual children by helping pick the daffodils and burn the toast, carefully covering the black part with a thick layer of marmalade. But mothers are also included in a stark statistic: one…

Claudine Dombrowski‘s insight:

Men who thought they owned women and children began using their superior economic power to hire attorneys and go to family (divorce) courts to get custody. The mothers, having no money for attorneys, were unable to compete on an uneven playing field.  Huge amounts of money began to change hands as a cottage industry of unregulated court-appointed professionals sprang up to provide opinions. Usually the opinions leaned toward the parent with the money.

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How Cutting Edge Research Can Help Psychologists and Judges Protect Children

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Claudine Dombrowski‘s insight:

The United States Department of Justice offered some good news to long suffering protective mothers and their children when it announced grants to courts in Illinois, Delaware, Minnesota and Oregon to develop improved practices to protect battered women and their children. Incredibly, the abusers’ lobby objects to any possible reforms to promote children’s safety out of concern the improved practices might undermine the privilege of abusive fathers to maintain strict control over their victims.

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Judge overturns rape verdict because the victim (who has Down Syndrome )“didn’t behave like a victim”

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The victim, who has Down syndrome, did not exhibit “visible distress” when she reported the rape.
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Breeders: Surrogacy, we have a choice between baby-selling and baby-theft.

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Saudi Preacher Fayhan al-Ghamdi Released After Raping and Killing Daughter Because he ‘Doubted her Virginity’

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Al-Ghamdi was sentenced to eight years in prison for raping and killing five-year-old daughter Lama; he claims he ‘doubted her virginity’.
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Cultivating indifference to suffering through doublespeak

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Elie Wiesel – The Perils of Indifference

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Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor — never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten. The political prisoner in his cell, the hungry children, the homeless refugees — not to respond to their plight, not to relieve their solitude by offering them a spark of hope is to exile them from human memory. And in denying their humanity, we betray our own.

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US Rep Alan Grayson shoved wife during domestic incident

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A judge has granted a temporary protective injunction against U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson after his wife filed paperwork accusing the Orlando congressman of shoving and injuring her during an incident this past weekend.
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Another fatherhood/family program proved to be worse than useless – Wiley Online Library

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