Women's Truth & Justice Foundation

12/19/2023

The most comprehensive scholarly work to date on the cross-section of coercive control and post-divorce legal abuse. Australia is light years ahead of the United States, both in terms of discourse and reform on this issue.

Research has long demonstrated that victim-survivors of intimate partner violence face barriers to being believed when they seek help via the legal system and a...

11/10/2023

One of the better articles about Coercive Control.

Written with contribution and advisement from Dr. Christine Marie Cocchiola, Doctor of Clinical Social Welfare, Coercive Control…

10/04/2023

Survivors' rights activists say that abusers use the courts to harass and exert control over their former partners. Some states have sought to pass laws curbing the practice. But the lines are tricky to draw, as they pit concerns about weaponizing litigation against due process rights.

09/13/2023

"The law of unintended consequences" ....

Governmental Entities and Judicial Officials have the power to alter and destroy lives. They also have absolute immunity for any decisions made while acting in an official capacity. Therefore, they have no incentive to carefully consider the potential collateral damage or compounding ripple effects of their decisions. And the results prove what that costs the rest of us. Children are losing their mothers and fathers. Parents’ identities and personal histories are being erased. The logical end for many is what happens in the story below. At some point, the consequences are no longer unforeseen or unintended.

“I cannot survive this torment and the grief that comes from such a prolonged separation from my children.”

07/23/2023

Family Courts in Crisis - a report on the imbalance of power and political pendulum swing in favor of fathers with financial resources beyond what the mother can sustain.

There is a national crisis for women and their children in the family law courts of this country.