If Dog-Fighting, Cock-Fighting, and Exploiting Prisoners as Gladiators (resulting in shooting deaths for some, and “hundreds of shootings,” not to mention fight-related injuries for others) is “BAD,” then why isn’t also Federal (PRWORA-based) and State (Family Courts) Policy with similarly staged, high-stakes conflicts — rigged for intended outcomes, and obviously potentially lethal for the combatants and, periodically, bystanders — on a far larger stage (national, and in some high-profile cases, international), also involving known criminally violent** fathers and their children’s mothers, AND young children of all ages? [Published Dec. 17, 2017] » Screen Shot 2017-12-17 at 6.19.13 PM
Yet it has time to post names of its staff and board members. Just no “financials.” I recognize three of the above (but then again, I was reading HHS DV grantees, including to the nonprofit that formerly sponsored BWJP in MN, as well as some AFCC newsletters where Loretta Frederick, speaking AS IF on behalf of battered women nationwide, presumably, had her say — while continuing (along with DAIP) not to, really, talk about the PRWORA HRMF funding, ongoing, that was impacting family state custody procedings involving child abuse, DV, or allegations of the same. Nor was the possibility of NOT having Supervised Visitation seriously ever considered, although as early as 1992, (Jack C. Straton, PhD) spoke under the DAIP umbrella against the practice, including for what it communicated to children who had already been exposed to violence or abuse by the same parent they were to see under supervised visitation and participate in the play-acting. (link on my sidebar widgets still, I’ll bet).
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