ACE scores in prison
The US has the largest prison population in the world and highest per-capita incarceration rate but how are we treating the high rate of ACEs in prison?
How to Break the Cycle of Abusive Parenting
Are you a victim of abusive parenting and now a parent yourself? Wonder how you can parent without being abusive? Here are some ways you can break the cycle.
#NYCares4Moms Help for New York Moms
Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business creates campaign that promotes help for New York moms through Maternal Home Visiting Services #NYCares4Moms
What’s a shelter to do? Helping during a health crisis
For Domestic Violence victims and the shelters that protect them COVID-19 and sheltering in place brings special complications. How are they coping?
Post-COVID call to action for childminders
Countless children are enduring hell at home with their abusers. Those who work with children will need to watch for signs of abuse when the kids return.
Listen to the scientists
Listen to the scientists. Good advice for everyone, especially family court judges responding to domestic violence and child abuse.
Gendered violence in the time of pandemic
Intimate partner violence and abuse are made worse by the worldwide pandemic and the restrictions everyone faces now. What is going on?
How Goats Became the Mascots for Protective Mothers
At a time we can use a laugh or a chuckle an explanation of how goats became the mascots of the Protective Mothers Movement
What Would Safe Family Courts Look Like?
Imagine what it would look like if family court administrators updated their practices and made the courts safe for children.
Coercion
Harvey Weinstein didn’t pin down all his victims, in fact, some of them willingly got in their car and went to meet him. Louise Godbold explains coercion.
Coronavirus in a domestic violence world
What about the victims of domestic violence who because of coronavirus or COVID19 are sheltering in place with their abuser? And what about their children?
Hierarchy of abuse
Society has ranked types of abuse in a hierarchy society considers most to least bad, and even buckets abuse into legitimate and illegitimate categories.
COVID-19 quarantined with kids
COVID-19 quarantined at home with kids? Exhausted, overwhelmed, anxious? Make a plan before emotions flare. Find creative outlets for that extra energy.
Confirmed: Family Court custody decisions fail children
More than 700 dead children show how America’s custody courts are failing children. Leading custody expert Barry Goldstein’s article shows why.
What Happens if Weinstein Conviction is a Turning Point?
Harvey Weinstein’s conviction should be a turning point but what will that look like for women, children, and the rest of society?
Why do Family Courts repeat their mistakes?
Family courts repeat their mistakes causing 700 children to lose their lives over 10 years. Barry Goldstein shows product recalls protect children better.
Kobe Bryant was no hero
Kobe Bryant is a superstar. A star on the court his success a legend. But was Kobe a hero? We should question that because heroes don’t abuse women.
It’s time for New York to call a rape a rape
Lydia Cuomo was brutally raped by an off duty NY policeman who was then found not guilty of rape. The Rape is Rape bill will make every rape a rape.
Go to jail or let your child be murdered
A judge refused a protective order for Zoey Pereira aged 3. Her father burnt her alive. Ten years, and over 650 children murdered in Custody Court Crisis.
Why are judges unaware of custody court crisis?
Why are judges unaware of the Custody Court Crisis when so many precious children are being harmed and even murdered. Are judges not listening?
Why do people blame the victim?
We hear the expression. “blaming the victim,” but do we really know what victim blaming means? Or why we blame victims?
Custody Court Crisis: The truths about custody and fathers rights
The truths about child custody and fathers’ rights, and how we got here? How has the situation changed? Why? And where did the funding come from?
Why men abuse women and what makes them stop
Four decades after domestic violence first became a public issue our courts still don’t understand why men abuse women. That’s dangerous for children.
Life after abuse. A guide to financial planning to secure your future
98% of women in abusive relationships do not to leave due to a lack of money. Abuse does not stop there because the children are also in harm’s way.
The Voice of Dylan Farrow
Dylan Farrow’s life still includes the injustice that comes with the way we deal with sex abuse. We need to listen to survivors.
Is there more sexual abuse in the Protestant Churches than the Catholic Church?
Is the Protestant world teetering on the edge of a sex abuse scandal similar to the one that had rocked the Catholic Church.
How do we protect children from ACEs?
How do we protect children from ACEs? Maternal Home Visiting Services are the most effective tool for protecting children from trauma.
Dear Dylan, I believe you
Dylan Farrow: I believe you. Because no one lies about incest; and because when we believe survivors, the world becomes a better place.
That awkward moment when…
Would you believe child sexual abuse if the signs were there? Would you be suspicious? Would you know what to do?
When the abuser is a child…
What if the abuser is a child. About 40% of child sexual abuse is committed by minors. Some are 17 years old. But some are very young children.
