My Thoughts Regarding 2013 Battered Women's Conference

 

Wish I was able to attend this Conference this year. All I can do is hope for next year. Prayers and healing to all those having the courage to stand tall and speak your truth and attending this conference with this amazing group of heroes.

PLEASE SHARE - Helping these three children helps ALL children (esp in Massachusetts) faced with injustice in the wake of their mother speaking out and trying to protect them from abuse!!!! - Just an update ... May 22nd is D Day on whether or not I go to ** JAIL ** and right now it does not seem to promising. I can not get any legal help, and the requirements ordered WILL cost me ... to lose my job with ONLY income I recieve ...which in turn will prohibit me from complying with financial requirements of the order.

Can you please circulate my facebook page and this blog around and if you know anyone who wants to rally in front of the courthouse on May 22nd NOT just for me and my children BUT for ALL Massachusetts Protective Mothers.

Thank you and blessings!!!

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HISTORY OF THE CONFERENCE 

Battered Women, Abused Children, and Child Custody: A National Crisis was created in 2003 by two mothers, Mo Therese Hannah, Ph.D. of Albany, NY, and Liliane Heller Miller of Charlotte, NC.  Now in our 10th year, our on-going goal is to host a  national public forum to address the many complex issues facing battered women as they strive to protect themselves and their children during divorce, custody, and visitation disputes.

In addition, we seek to  raise public awareness by documenting civil, legal, due process, and human rights violations perpetrated on victims of domestic violence (women and children) by  family courts, their professional appointees, Child Protective Services, other government systems, and all who have built an industry which profits from the suffering of mothers and children trying to escape domestic violence.

The format of the conference continues to develop along with the growing body of scholarly research and case law documenting this issue.  It includes presentations, round-table discussions, and question & answer sessions with nationally distinguished attorneys, researchers, writers, and mental health professionals, as well as domestic violence survivors and their children.  We also seek to foster healing and support for the thousands of mothers, children, and supporting professionals whose lives are being damaged on a daily basis.

The Conference is open to lay persons and of special interest to advocates, social workers, psychologists, attorneys, judges, legal personnel, and others involved in the issue of battered women's and abused children's legal and civil rights being  routinely violated by juvenile and family courts, DSS, Child Protective Services, and other government systems.

Battered Women, Abused Children, and Child Custody: A National Crisis is not funded and has no paid staff.

It has been, from its inception, a completely volunteer-driven, self-sustaining, grassroots phenomenon,
and is entirely the unpaid work product of its creators and presenters.

This conference is neither financially supported by, nor officially affiliated with any particular group, organization, gender-based ideology, or political agenda.