Trauma did NOT make you stronger. It traumatized you, broke your heart, dysregulated your nervous system, gave you PTSD, sleepless nights, trust issues, connection difficulty, almost killed you, and stole your will to live. YOU made + make yourself stronger…by surviving.

In Family Courts, proven violence, coercion and even CSA are too often no barrier to custody. Abusers win, protective parents lose — and children pay the price. #FamilyCourtCrisis #ChildSafetyFirst #DomesticAbuse #PD12J #MothersMatter Ministry of Justice Hannah Summers Jessica Bradley

There are heartbreaking cases, like little Sarah Sharif’s, where custody was even transferred to abusers — and thousands of mothers have lost custody through a system where enablers, including Cafcass, judges, experts, social services and contact centres, allow abuse to continue.

Do you know what the difference is between a psychopath and a sociopath? This is an important distinction so I repost this regularly…. My PhD data indicates that (malignant, covert) narcissists, psychopaths, coercive controllers, Machiavellians are all just subsets of one dark

EVERY DAY Mothers lose custody of their children due to state sanctioned abuse via the Ministry of Justice Justice Committee Cafcass Judicial Office David Lammy Family Courts. Perpetrators are enabled by professionals that fail children. The system is rotten to the core 🤮 #familycourt

This is a travesty of justice which should never have happened. The courts have known for years about this ‘expert’ who peddles pseudoscience but still allow her to ruin lives in the family courts. Kudos to Mrs Justice Judd for overturning Gill’s evidence. But there are other

The Scream By artist Jessica Pearson 2025 Shown in the gallery #filia2025 “The unrequited grief of mothers and children separated tore through me, tore through my motherhood” The artist works to show the deliberate and abusive institutional severing of the mother and child

The VAWG Curriculum: Day 10 Families tell us that their experiences in the court can be as traumatising as their experience of abuse. Here, Kirsty Richards, who is a solicitor and Domestic Abuse Specialist, tells us why regular, trauma-informed training for judges is much

Having suffered terrible abuse in family court, I feel immense gratitude to professionals such as HHJ Vincent for stepping out of the institutional misogyny afflicting so many FC professionals. Instead she leads with common sense, equity and with humanity. It is these qualities

My little one is marooned with our perpetrator. I saw her yesterday, we get 7 contacts per year. She is being shouted at a lot. She told me that she hides under the table. We hugged for 2 hours straight. Leaving my baby to go back to unsafety with him was felt like my body parts

2025 is the 4th Christmas since my daughter was given to live with our abuser via #familycourtabuse. This year, she was coercively prevented from receiving post so I couldn’t get our homemade advent calendar to her. Instead, I made a live Christmas calendar in my workshop

It's the go-to defence of a violent man.

I fully agree with what Adrienne has said. I hope the experiences of victims of child sexual abuse (CSA) and their protective parents in family court proceedings will finally be treated as a priority. Too often, family courts disregard police investigations, safeguarding

When you look at the reality of family court outcomes, the narrative doesn’t hold up. In case after case, study after study, independent review after independent review, what emerges is a very different pattern: women lose their children to abusive fathers on the basis of being