The Ross County Network for Children

2-1-1 GET CONNECTED.  GET ANSWERS.                                                               Scioto Paint Valley Mental Health Center.                                                           

 BATTERED MOTHERS CUSTODY CONFERENCE                                                Battered Women, Abused Children, and Child Custody:  A NATIONAL CRISIS

BEST INTERESTS                                                                                                        A website for children's advocates

BIKERS AGAINST CHILD ABUSE
Bikers Against Child Abuse (BACA) exists with the intent to create a safer environment for abused children.

CALIFORNIA PROTECTIVE PARENTS ASSOCIATION
The Mission of the California Protective Parents Association is to protect children from incest and family violence through research, education and advocacy.

CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ADVOCACY
This web site is primarily about children's rights and the need for legal reform.

COURAGEOUS KIDS NETWORK
A growing group of young people, whose childhood was shattered by biased and inhumane court rulings, which forced them to live with the abusive parent, while restricting or sometimes completely eliminating contact with our loving and protective parent.

CUSTODY PREPARATIONS FOR MOM
A support site provided by those that have been through the process.

DIANE HOFHEIMER & CHARLIE HOFHEIMER                                               Representing Women Only in Divorce

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & THE COURTROOM : UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM
Table of Contents
How Judges Can Help
Do Not Blame The Victim
No One Is Immune / Everyone Suffers
Recognizing the Violence
Forms of Emotional Battering
Battered Woman Syndrome
Other Forms of Violence
AJA / AJF
Acknowledgements

ETHICALIFE                                                                                                                 Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence, hosted by Kathleen Brooks, Ph.D. is a talk show designed to both feature experts in the area of child sexual abuse and offer an arena for people who are concerned about this issue to discuss and share their experiences of courageously facing and healing this global epidemic.

EPOCH                                                                                                                                         End of physical punishment of children                                                        

FAMILY COURT REFORM NEWSGROUP
FAMILYCOURTREFORM is an activism & reform community with over 700 current participants. Moderator is the founder of the largest and most pro-active protective' mothers group in the USA -- NAFCJ with over 1000 intake contacts since inception in 1993.

FAMILY LAW COURTS. COM
Civil and Criminal courts are for resolving a dispute or crime, to protect victims. However, the reverse it true in Family Court. Family courts,creates victims, frequently those with early bedtimes. 

FATHER'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT:  IN THEIR OWN WORDS 

HOPE 4 KIDZ
To increase the protection of foster children living in institutional facilities, sometimes known as Residential Treatment Centers (RTCs).

INJUSTICE AT ITS BEST
Imagine.........A 5 year old little girl confides in her counselor that her dad bathed her with his bare hands, washed inside her vagina with his bare hands, gave her hot oil massages, and put his finger "in my butt".....at about the same time, physical evidence showed that the child of the same mans girlfriend, had anal & vaginal penetration. This child reveals that the same man would put her on his lap, that his "bone would get hard", and that he would put his bone in her vagina. Now Imagine This......This man is granted custody of his 5 year old daughter! 

JUSTICE FOR CHILDREN
Justice for Children is a national child advocacy organization with headquarters in Houston, Texas. It was founded in 1987 by Randy Burton, a former Chief Prosecutor of the Family Offenses Section of the Harris County District Attorney's office, and a group of concerned citizens within the community in response to the inadequacies and failure of child protective system to protect abused and neglected children.

LIZ RICHARD:  NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR FAMILY COURT JUSTICE  The National Alliance For Family Court Justice, founded in 1993 by Elisabeth Richards of Annandale,Virginia, is an international group of volunteers dedicated to addressing system failure in the courts and social services resulting in retaliation against non-offending parents who complain of family abuse, especially mothers of children who disclose sexual abuse. 

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION TO PROTECT CHILDREN
founded on the belief that the first and most sacred obligation as parents, citizens, and members of the human species is the protection of children from harm.

PROFESSIONAL WRITING, EDITING & TRANSLATING SERVICES

RAINN 
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network is the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization.

SMALL JUSTICE:  LITTLE JUSTICE IN AMERICA'S FAMILY COURTS
Small Justice, an award-winning, independent documentary, exposes a lurking national scandal. Contrary to everything you might think, everything that makes sense, men who beat their wives, sexually abuse their children, and then ask the court for custody, usually get it.

STOP FAMILY VIOLENCE
Stop Family Violence is a leading national organization working to bring survivor voices - and the voices of their allies - to bear on the social and political agendas affecting their lives.

TAPESTRY AGAINST POLYGAMY
Polygamy (po·lyg·a·my) n. 1. The condition or practice of having more than one spouse at one time. Also called Plural Marriage.

10 MYTHS ABOUT CUSTODY & DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 

THE PROVOCATEUR
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'.

THE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOHISTORY                                                       Psychohistory, the science of historical motivations, combines the insights of psychotherapy with the research methodology of the social sciences to understand the emotional origin of the social and political behavior of groups and nations, past and present.

 THE JUSTICE HOUR
If you have suffered an injustice in the courts or if you have been a victim of police misconduct or misconduct involving a government agency, you may be eligible to be a featured guest on The Justice Hour.

THE LIZ LIBRARY

VICTIM ASSISTANCE ONLINE
Victim-Assistance Online is non-profit information, research and networking resource for victim assistance specialists, professionals in related disciplines and all interested in the field of victimology.

W.A.S.P
Women Against Sexual Predators is a group based out of Columbus Ohio working to educate and inform the community about the sexual offenders in their area.

WOMEN'S JUSTICE CENTER  Beware Family Court:
What Victims and Advocates Should Know

Dear Friends,

Change is coming. Please send your story to:
 http://change.gov/page/s/yourstory . The main points could be (use your own words or feel free to use the following):

A new form of pernicious violence against women and children is rampant in our country.

 
 1. Across the country, family courts are removing children from parents (mostly mothers) who are trying to
protect them from physical and sexual harm. Even nursing
 infants are torn from their non-abusive mothers.
Courts are placing these children in the custody of the very parents whom the children insist are abusing them. Protective parents are bankrupted trying to protect their
children from batterers and molesters, who use family
courts to obtain custody of their victims and avoid
prosecution.  The right of parental access trumps the right of child safety.

2. Family courts have become lawless star chamber proceedings with no due process or checks and balances.
 Courts have unfettered power with no effective oversight that would ensure that children are safe from physical and sexual harm. Appeals are ineffective because they are
lengthy, prohibitively expensive, and do not address child safety concerns.  

3. Because of our government’s complete lack of responsiveness to these violations of child safety, a
petition was filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Older children are speaking out about their court-ordered abuse, which in some cases is comparable to third world rape and torture camps.

4. We need Federal hearings and investigation to bring this hidden problem to light, to return the children to their protective parents, and to hold accountable the
perpetrators and the systems that enable and order their abuse.

5. In my case (a few sentences of the most egregious events in your case. You can even provide photos and videos.) If you include the names, county, state of those who harmed your child, there is always a concern about retribution if the court somehow finds out. You could always
state that you fear retribution and are using a pseudonym,which is a powerful and accurate statement.