Battered Women, Abused Children, and Child Custody: “A National Crisis”
The Ninth Annual Battered Mothers Custody Conference:
BMCC IX, January 6th, 7th, and 8th, 2012
Friday evening through Sunday
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You can watch the Conference live stream beginning tonight at 7 PM EST here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-ninth-battered-mothers-custody-conference *Updated Conference Schedule * Presenters
There is a crisis in our nation’s family [more...]
(Battered Mothers, Abused Children are Being Further Battered and Abused by the US Courts failure to let Domestic Violence Mothers Leave With Their Children. Many Ask, “Why Doesn’t She Just Leave?” When it comes to Domestic Violence, besides all the other very unsafe reasons those with children will loose their children to the very animal [more...]
By: Daniel G. Saunders, Ph.D. University of Michigan School of Social Work
Note: This article is summarized in part from the article, Child Custody and Visitation Decisions in Domestic Violence Cases: Legal Trends, Risk Factors, and Safety Concerns (Revised 2007) by Daniel G. Saunders (saunddan@umich.edu), and published by VAWnet, a project of [more...]
[My comment’s are in Red to Kari’s article below- Good Job Kari- and thank you for covering this.] The real agenda- is much more sinister. The National Fatherhood Initiative: supporting a misogynistic agenda with "politically correct" jock straps.
Federal and Kansas Fatherhood Initiatives, Fathers Rights, Grant Funding, under HHS Federal to local Kansas SRS- Fatherhood Programs…Kansas [more...]
Click here for News Video WGN News
Example of How to do an Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit here.
By Marcella RaymondWGN News
One in four women is abused. Nationwide eight women a day are murdered by an abuser. But now there is a new tool that is helping women stay alive and giving them a voice in the process.
The [more...]
http://www.nowayoutbutone.com/
Project Update #14: From Boston Magazine: ‘No Way Out But One’ to Unveil at MIT
Posted by Garland Waller and Barry Nolan
BY SARA EDWARDS
A compelling new documentary debuts in Boston this week that will open your eyes to a stunning injustice. No Way Out But One was co-written and directed by Emmy award winning [more...]
From the LA Times
Claudine Dombrowski tells of having her wrists broken, being hit on the head with a crowbar, getting chipped teeth and, at one point, needing 24 stitches to close a wound. Even when she left her boyfriend, she says, the abuse didn’t stop. Ultimately, she says, she was left [more...]
"Week Without Violence"
I am saddened. The City Council continues to twist and mince words. The bottom line and in simple English is -
YES, THEY DECRIMINALIZED DOMESTIC VIOLENCE within the city of Topeka.
See some of the other posts on this site.
They want to be called hero’s? They [more...]
From Times Up!!
By Susan Murphy Milano
In Topeka, Kansas on October 11, 2011, members of the City Council voted and successfully repealed the city’s ordinance banning domestic violence during National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Talk about a punch, a kick and slap for victims of intimate partner violence by city government’s financial misconduct as their excuse [more...]
Spearheaded by KS-NOW: Kansas National Organization for Women
Topeka’s Plan to decimalize Domestic Violence – In Domestic Violence Awareness Month –no less. shame.
Several National Media Articles – under Google search in News “Topeka Domestic Violence”
Time Tuesday, October 11 · 4:00pm – 7:00pm
Location 200 SE 7th St. Topeka, Ks. 66603
Kansas National Organization for Women
Topeka Kansas: Failure to Protect Violates Statutes
The hour heated up in the Zeus Radio Studio starting with a discussion about the city of Topeka , KS decision to stop prosecuting domestic violence cases with my suggestion that the District Attorney obtain permits and go into the cemetery business. The city of Topeka is throwing victims’ [more...]
http://www.examiner.com/domestic-violence-abuse-in-honolulu/claudine
Dara Carlin, M.A.
, Honolulu Domestic Violence & Abuse Examiner
It’s Actually Come Down To This
Until recent years Civics, Democracy and Criminal Justice were only topics from a class that I was supposed to be paying attention to when I was in high school. Unable to see how any of it was going [more...]
PLEASE COMMENT ON ORIGINAL ARTICLE! We need OUTRAGE to stop this political game playing at the expense of women.
Right now in Topeka Kansas—DOMESTIC VIOLENCE is LEGAL. Since last week’s decision of the County DA to stop prosecuting Domestic Violence in the city limits, there have been 35 Domestic Violence arrests that have WALKED with [more...]
EXTREME CUSTODY DECISIONS THAT RISK LIVES
By Barry Goldstein
Dear Custody Court Judge:
The research is now clear that certain extreme decisions in domestic violence custody cases that have become all too common are contributing to an increase in the frequency of domestic violence homicide and other harmful consequences. This is established in the leading resources about domestic [more...]
Violent, Selfish Fathers vs. Violent, Selfish "Mothers on Trial"
Phyllis Chesler is (again) 100% right on the money. While the media fixates on Casey Anthony (or Susan Smith or Andrea Yates), hundreds of fathers massacre entire families and nobody outside the local media market even takes note. It IS a total double standard. Paternal violence is [more...]
