October is domestic violence awareness month. Here are some activities you can get involved in on the national level and in California.
It is our efforts that will help educate and end domestic violence in the United States!!!
October 1 – 2, 2014 Events in Washington DC
October 1:
From 11:00 am to 3:00 pm Mothers of Lost Children March. We will provide white Mothers of Lost Children t shirts. Bring your sunscreen and a hat, and wear white clothing. We will have a speak out, then march around the White House. After a short break we will march to the Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Ave NW to demand action on family courts that engage in illegal activity We are asking them to investigate the 286 cases Mary Seguin submitted on January 15, 2014.
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That night from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm, there will be a presentation on sex trafficking of children at George Washington University Law School, Faculty Conference Center B505, 5th floor, 716 20th St NW, Washington DC. We have invited speaker and author Gypsy Marie Roberts to speak on sex trafficking and we will discuss judicial trafficking in the family court.
October 2:
We will go to Congress to continue educating members and requesting action on the family court crisis. Please plan to wear your white Mothers of Lost Children t shirts over business attire and meet in front of the Cannon Building on Independence Ave, SE and First Street SE at 9:00 am. The Safe Child Coalition is now part of Mothers of Lost Children.
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“You cannot have a conversation about human rights and human dignity without talking about the right of every woman on this planet to be free from violence and free from fear.” – Vice President Joseph Biden http://mothersoflostchildren.org/
Vice President Biden announced a Summit gathering about civil rights and protection “This past week, I announced that we’ll bring together legal experts, scholars and advocates to convene a White House Summit on Civil Rights and Equal Protection for Women because we know bias against victims of rape and sexual assault still exist in our criminal justice system – and we must make clear every victim has a basic civil right to equal protection under the law.” This is a good time to remind him that mothers and children are still prevented from protecting their child when seeking refuge. It is human right to be free from violence and fear. Mothers and children are free from neither in the family court.
You can write to Vice President Joe Biden or call 202-456-1111 or email vicepresident@whitehouse.gov and copy Bea Hansen, Principal Deputy Director, Office of Violence Against Women, 145 N Street NE, Suite 10W.121, Washington DC 20530 and call 202-307-6026 ovw.info@usdoj.gov.
SAMPLE LETTER
The Honorable Joseph Biden
Vice President of the United States
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington DC 20500
RE: Abused Children of Divorce are court ordered to live with their sexually abusive fathers
Dear Vice President Biden,
You have done so much to help women. Please help women in the crisis in family courts. Abused children of divorce are being taken away from their safe mothers and given to their sexually and physically abusive fathers. The situation is getting worse, despite our efforts.
You said, “You cannot have a conversation about human rights and human dignity without talking about the right of every woman on this planet to be free from violence and free from fear.” We do not live in fear. We live in terror. Our children do not live in fear. They live in terror. Many live in ongoing court-ordered rape and sexual assault.
We have been demonstrating to the White House since 2010 seeking remedies for abused children of divorce. 58,000 of them are placed in the unsupervised contact or full custody of their abusers. Their suffering is horrendous and completely preventable.
No investigation of these cases has occurred, despite our pleas. The Department of Justice has not investigated the 286 cases submitted in January 2014 by Mary Seguin, who has subsequently disappeared.
Nothing has helped our children who live in rape camps disguised as their paternal “homes”. Please come to their aid. We ask for you to order an investigation into cases in which divorce courts seem to operate like criminal cartels, deliberately placing children at risk.
Sincerely,
YOUR NAME
cc: Bea Hansen, Principal Deputy Director
Office of Violence Against Women
145 N Street NE, Suite 10W.121,
Washington DC 20530
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You can also contact the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities to ask them to look into child fatalities where family (divorce) courts fail to protect the children by taking them from safe mothers and giving them to violent and abusive fathers. http://eliminatechildabusefatalities.sites.usa.gov/contact-us/ or call202-818-9596
This commission was created by the federal Protect Our Kids Act of 2012. It appears to focus mostly on CPS cases, but most of the time, CPS fails abused children of divorce by not protecting them so we need to tell them about this special group of abused children of divorce. We need to let them know about fatalities and near fatalities cause by terrible family court decisions.
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ARTICLES
Opinion: The Quincy Solution: targeting domestic violence, deficit
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014, 5:14 PM LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2014, 5:14 PM
BY BARRY GOLDSTEIN
THE RECORD
Barry Goldstein is the author of books about domestic violence and custody. His 5th book, “The Quincy Solution: Stop Domestic Violence and Save $500 Billion,” will be published in October.