2020 FORMAT UPDATE: THIS POST EXISTS TO PUBLISH A TABLE OF CONTENTS REPRESENTING THE MERGING OF ANOTHER OF MY non-WordPress BLOGS into this one to preserve its contents.  I assigned short-links to the posts in anticipation of publishing them here, on my main (major) blog. However, as of July 28, 2020 (this update) most of them aren’t yet published (Life’s been busy…), and they may, or may not still be available in on prior blog.  At the time, I had some messages that domain was going down and so moved quickly to preserve content by moving it here.. Here’s a partial image of that table.  There’s a lot of explanation matter up front, for example, of why each title appears twice.  (links to old blog also preserved here).

The visuals will be clearer than shown on this image from the post below//LGH

A snapshot of the table on my sticky post with short-link ending “-9Aj” published April, 2019…

[END, July 28, 2020 Update, to add this image].

**On The Family Court Franchise System I posted under username “Liberty,” with the gravatar image a white car viewed from the rear, with bumpersticker “There’s No Excuse for Abuse,” a gravatar image also used here before I changed to the blue jay taking flight.

**(July, 2019 update:  It still does, but does so mostly elsewhere now…. The “extended, “Why Bother?” multi-section Intro” just got a major haircut and may be found (when I publish this post:  soon, I hope) at  (see nearby image, above or keep reading just below the “Read-More” divider where I provide the full title with link).  The nearby image is just to say this above the “Read-More” link…)

**Look [ON THAT OFF-RAMPED MULTI-SECTION INTRO//LGH July 2019] for section titles such as: ~> “Why that blog then, in 2012?  Why integrate it here now, seven years later, in 2019?,”  ~> “Notice, Know, and Make a Note of who’s specifically funding which media on any key articles in subject matter of interest,” also ~>“A KEY PROBLEM: UNPROVEN ASSUMPTIONS SNUCK IN THE FRONT DOOR | IN ADVOCACY RHETORIC & STANDARD DV/FAMILY COURT MSM REPORTING:” 

I also wrote, “off-ramped,” and have since posted (in three installments) ~>”More about those perspectives and key concepts (and actors),“* leaving its footprint and follow-up link here.  

{*”More about those perspectives and key concepts (and actors) (See Also “A Closer Look At — and Alternate Interpretation of — Who’s Funding Poverty Research..” Published May 6): (short-link ends “-9MU”).  I then split it into three parts and have since posted them also in later May and/or early June, 2019).

[Begins Interjection/Update]

Related, and also now in draft: You may see in some other older posts this orange box where I took another “Blog Preview” (Why I Write/About This Blog summary) out of some innocent post which couldn’t stand up under the weight of all that prose:

I also have a more recent post, “In About 2,500 Words, Why I Still Bother (to Blog).”  It’s been on my mind a lot, the more costly (in terms of time) keeping up with both international alignment (of family court values, strategies and organizations) developments and widespread dissociative/denial-style reporting of what’s been perpetrated on the public and billed to the public in the USA, continues.  Identifiable parallels exist, that I’ve seen especially in the United Kingdom (i.e., former British empire, etc.), not to mention what seems to be a general exodus of some professionals dealing with the “domestic violence  / child abuse interventions” professionals, carrying their public credibility (see: lifelong functions in public institutions spearheading yet more public grants- and contracts-making) to UK-owned publishers (i.e., Oxford University Press) (“Sage” has long operated from the UK).  “Oddly” (not really) the most vocal proponents of such interventions tend to be men. What we think of, in general terms, as probably feminist organizations, back them up and continue the collective silence on all conflicts of interest among each other the whole time.

In light of this, and as a (barely) survivor of the USA system, I’m unlikely to shut up (quit writing) about this while still alive in the near future, another reason, until I have any better media, I keep working on this blog for a point of reference.//LGH

[End of July 3, 2019 interjection/update]

Mechanics of the Move Affects When You Can View The Posts and Pages Moved Here, and Why I can Pre-Publish the Contents:

Those 40 posts and 7 pages now saved here as drafts (I made them all posts, no new pages) will be gradually integrated by publishing them into my ongoing production of any future, newly-written posts. Because it’s migration from a pre-existing blog, I already know all the titles, so I can provide this complete list of titles up front for points of reference.

Because it’s also been moved here in draft form, that list can and does have active links for every single title of the 47 in advance of publication.  I am also glad to have my own points of reference linkable in one place, rather than continually “re-inventing the wheel” on key principles and concepts I’d already documented.

One important thing to understand about this list is that, while still up, link to former location on the old blog is still active, but actual link to the new one not active until I actually publish it — however  all posts published on this platform are automatically clickable either on the Archives, on the right-sidebar widget of “most recent posts” (WordPress will not distinguish between re-posts and new ones; all are listed), or you can as always simply scroll down the main “Current posts” page to see which is the latest one.  I’ve done some formatting clean up, links replacement, and updates, which should make re-posts a little better.

Incidentally, that May 6, 2014, post title was true in 2014 as it was in 2004 (before CPPA leadership hooked up with what became Center for Judicial Excellence, Inc. to push the “Broken Family Courts” public relations aspect further), and remains true in 2019, from all I can see, and I do receive newsletters and maintain some connection with followers.  What’s more, CPPA as a registered business and charity in California, with at least some details visible there (such as that it’s not filing full-sized tax returns, but Forms 990-N, which not only reflects low stated revenues, but also a desire to retain low-visibility at the operations level, while high-visibility in the PR level when paired with others).  CJE continues to refer ONLY to websites which omit the key elements I’ve been blogging for years, and pitch stories which also tend to omit them (as has occurred in a recent piece “Bitter Custody” by Trey Bundy at “Reveal.org” (a project of Center for Investigative Reporting in Emeryville, California).

The ongoing waves of such half-investigated storytelling in respected outlets (and some less respected, but I’m referring to mainstream media) tends to wash away awareness of the operational realities, especially when people have not acquired a comprehension of it in the first place.  Essentially, they are reporting the car-crashes of the family courts, complete with assumption of causation, demands for solution based on those assumptions without describing the road maps, the planners, the construction crews, or the public/private collaborations creating the infrastructure in the first place.  

This business of selling self-serving but convincingly sincere [false] hope (more oversight, better training, less “flawed” practices) to the public AND the involved parents ALSO not hearing any significant, major or  highly sponsored voices (in the media OR in the nonprofit arena) specifically talking infrastructure and incentives — and “look for the tax returns and consider what you see” — also encourages a dynamic where followers (Graspers at straws) then turn on, typically, single bloggers (who just won’t shut up) for even criticizing the forward flow of this rhetoric.

That post also reviews who published the “ABA Commission on Domestic Violence” 10 Myths Fact Sheet, and some c.v. of Richard Gelles, Ph.D., (University Pennsylvania) who argues against them, noting sponsorship of the sociology career curve.

The 2012 post also holds seven pages, which will display differently (bright-yellow-highlit background) and like the posts, come with both an OLD and a NEW row, each with its respective links.  Also, in the migration, the former Pages are not saved as Pages here, but as normal Posts, to avoid confusion with my existing ones.  Their subject matter in general is similar to that in the posts.

(1) Lavender rows:  old links, still active until the platform gets shut down (not under my control).  (2) White rows (second of each pair) are on this blog, and will become active ONLY when I publish them.  I’m obviously not going to publish 40 posts in one day; likely one a day, if that often. So some patience is in order.  Having the older link allows viewing them there, meanwhile.  They are, however, likely to be more cleaned up once published here.  Another reason I discontinued posting at Blogger.com was I didn’t like the overall appearance and functionality compared to WordPress.

Footnote “May 1, 2012, Lackluster Citizen Responses to Brilliant Violations of Citizens’ Rights, Labels:  Danielle Ross, fatherhood, GAL program, Hon.Chester Harhut, Justice Max Baer (PA), Michael L. Stefanov (PA), parent coordination, Scranton Political Times, Teri Jedusa-Nicolai case

(Deals with 11th Amendment immunity and other issues.  Jedusa-Nicolai case (Racine, WI) entailed her being beaten, fighting back too hard (though pregnant), stuffed into a garbage can filled with snow, trucked over the state line and left to die by her ex in a storage unit in IL (which she would have, except having fought & succeeded in making two calls to 911 and one to her finance and a single oversight by the ex- leaving the business card to the storage unit out), which occurred on a court-appointed visitation.  She lost all her toes as a result of that experience.)

Post Footnote May 3, 2012 Parenting Coordination:

Quote from the post intro.  This was a hard-hitting post, or at least intro, with the theme “Educate Yo’self,” which in looking more closely at a single entity, Juvenile Law Center,** I was doing.

(**Note to self: doublecheck entity name.  I sometimes mix this one up with another, similar one).

When the Kids for Cash (judicial racketeering/RICO) scandal hit nationally, how many people looked into or asked why parents had to bring it to the Juvenile Law Center here (and it didn’t discover on its own, while functioning as a lead agency in MacArthur Foundation’s mass demonstration on a few different states (Pennsylvania, Illinois, Washington State among them) with this as “lead agency” in “Models for Change..”

At least one young man subjected to the treatment committed suicide as a result of it.

The RICO happened in a diversionary service provider.  JLC is pushing diversionary services (as part of Models for Change).  Hmm…

Separately (I discovered this probably later, and blogged it here at FamilyCourtMatters, not at the Franchise System blog) NCJFCJ’s Pennsylvania outpost (“E. Hunter Hurst, III” as I recall, look for a post on this blog “About That Find” or “NCJJ”) also was pushing diversionary services — yet NCJFCJ neglected to mention the same guy was massively into a public-traded (eventually) company based in Arizona for youth treatment centers, several of which had been outed for abuse in their various states (such as Florida).  You can look it up.

It takes thinking about nonprofits AS nonprofits and an awareness of how the public institutions (such as the courts — or schools, or schools and courts combined) function as ATM machines for service providers, and the human capital flowing through them are a form of commerce, with per-capita charges, it seems.  How can the good guys also be part of the bad-guys setting up the situations in the first place, or playing one alternative (youth incarceration, disproportionate minority — obviously bad) with another (“JDAI,” diversionary services to community providers) which can also, as investment opportunities for judges and others, incentivize over-delivery of human beings for treatment –instead of for incarceration..

DISCLAIMER TO READERS:

I am not your Mama, and you are not a little baby bird.  Although I do swallow, chew, and (OK, it’s true) “regurgitate” that information onto a blog, I have other motivations for doing so.  

You want to see some change?  Educate yourself and get the larger picture, master a few concepts and become familiar with some basic organizations and personnel.  There IS a pattern, and be ready to become sensitive to other patterns developing.  Don’t hang around confused and upset — or happy and dumb.  Do something useful — look it up, think about it, talk about it, validate or invalidate (TRUST your judgment) and make a decision.

People who deal with any local service-providing organization need to become aware of what its affiliations are, which (thanks to the wonder of the Internet) can be sought out, at least many of them.  Remember there are no free lunches, and there ARE “Greeks bearing gifts.”  “Caveat emptor” (buyer beware).   

FYI — just because you got pro bono services doesn’t mean they were free. UNDERSTAND the forms of exchange your government is involved in.  People who don’t have cash can pay with their offspring, after all, it’s HUMAN services we are dealing with here — programs esp. under HHS….  It’s only naturally they will traffick in live human beings when not enough cash to get free exists.

PRO BONO:  Someone paid for them, or you may, down the road.  For example, one time  BRIEFLY, I took Food Stamps and Cash Aid immediately after separating from a violent man who had used force to shut me down economically and taken things that didn’t belong to him in that category.  He also was apparently aware I was getting ready to leave — and put on more and more pressure to make sure I wouldn’t be able to stash any cash to make the jump.  My instinct at that time was it was wiser to jump, than to stay around and hope to change the dynamics in time to not get shot or stabbed to death.  We had children.  

This meant that, on the way out I initially had to jump onto some cash aid.  That means Title IV.  I’m female — and eventually, the delayed bill was MY CHILDREN.  For a bit of food and cash — we were sold down the river through County Control of the Child Support (that means they can enforce, or not enforce, at will.  In doing so, it will be their — it was not my kids’ — best interests which prevail).

Either way — find out which end is up.  “Who pays the piper calls the tune.” 

On that topic — the Juvenile Law Center, having helped expose the scandal — and the State of Pennsylvania being highly motivated to clear its name– some legislative changes were obtained.  This is not surprising and what letting crises develop in the first place (or inciting some) is usually all about, up to and including wars.

I can see from the post that I was actually more upset about the increasing centralization of the DV field, as it happens, some of it in the Northern California area where I was dealing with the usual post-DV issues.  The “Three Cities” part is appended to the bottom of this page (now a post).  A bit embarrassed to see I was feeding off “prisonplanet.com” (a different sensibility of this with subsequent U.S. Presidential Administrations seems to apply), not that I’m in complete disagreement with the analysis.  However my main point was the second half of the title — not the first half.  As expressed by this paragraph, on hearing of CPEDV (et al.’s) “Strong Field Project.”

I thought the idea was to actually STOP domestic violence, not build and expand an institution of theories about it!   That’s why women like me have to blog individually, and actually get the truth of the matter (once it hits family courts) on-line:  This crowd runs shelters, crisis lines, shares as vocabulary, teaches each others how to get more grants to do more of the same and IGNORES what happens to mothers with children (including in shelters) the SECOND there’s a custody dispute.  They have not blogged or reported the things that these mothers deserve to know, because it simply wasn’t on the agenda.

I also noticed, on quick review today, that what’s now called “CORA” (Communities Overcoming Relationship Violence) started in 1977 and underwent the usual name changes to ELIMINATE any reference to the level of violence women (still) face, or in fact, women at all — or even violence.  The fast sequence of names (easily trackable at BusinessSearch.sos.ca.gov; search by name or that Corporate Entity# provided above):

(1)  (Shown on earliest available pdf image) “La Casa de San Mateo” (changed in 1992 to): (2) “Battered Women’s Services of San Mateo” (changed in 1995 to:) (3) “Center for Domestic Violence Prevention,” (changed in 2004 only to) (4) “CORA (Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse).”  At all times, “The Corporation has no members.”  (Last two images of gallery below show which gov’t agencies supporting it, as submitted through a recent “RRF” (charity annual renewal form for the state).  They are supposed to provide a personal contact name and telephone # for all government agencies; did for some, but not all.  That is the clear instruction on the form.

San Mateo is among the nine San Francisco Bay Area Counties, and just south of SF on the SF Peninsula.  My understanding is that it’s a well-to-do-area, but I cannot speak authoritatively on that.  For the record, I am far less concerned about this individual organization (other than as a common example of evolving names in the field which submerge its origins — protecting battered women) than, for example, the CPEDV (mentioned on that post) and “Strong Field Project” trends.  I am footnoting here in part because that page title was less than representative of the situations that inspired it.

It is odd, and sad, that no financial statements, though provided to the California OAG (Attorney General’s Office) as I’m sure is required, and they admitted receiving at least one year, have been provided on the registry for public viewing for an organization so heavily dependent (about 50%) on government grants to function.  HOWEVER, the organization itself is posting its own audited financial reports (Bravo!) under Financials — that’s actually rare.

2019 Preview (Comments on this former Blogger Page become a WordPress Post.)

I see in blog migration that this post explains one of my main motives for having created the blog, after some time participating in an owned on-line forum which, it turned out had far more usernames than live human beings posting (ratio unknown), as related to preserving and simplifying links to the Scranton-based on-line forum.  The post briefly mentions several key organizations (including NACC and the Juvenile Law Center), people, a Pennsylvania initiatives, and the problems with the business model in operation.  I also noted some of the local resistance to “outsider” ideas although what I had to say documented nationally networked organizations influencing the local courthouse ethics they were complaining about. This might be one place to start if you’re interested in a scope of the migrated blog contents.//LGH April 15, 2019.