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Post title:  Many of My Sidebar Widgets, Some Mostly Text, Others Mostly Links, Now Live Here! [Published July 9, 2019].. (Case-sensitive short-link ends “-abt“).  Was started June 27.   This post may be revised (as may also be that sidebar) after first published. Current wordcount, almost 12,000 words (incl. those sidebar text widget contents).

Do I need to explain “Widget”?

I say “Widget” because WordPress Admin Dashboard does.  Reviewing this may explain why the post looks the way it does.

This link describes the difference between (<~~cool website) “Widgets” and “Apps” — in reference more to cell phones but still helpful. The word “widget” in general seems to mean a “sort of thingie which can be interchanged with other thingies in our manufacturing or assembly process.”

LGH|FCM Sidebar Widget List (from near the top, @ July 5, 2019). Sample only; there are more types of widgets and on my blog more widgets; some featuring lists of links, others more text with some supporting links sprinkled in the writing.  For example, when I publish a page, it shows up under “Pages” menu, for now).  //LGH.

The blog software recognizes some specialized types (see image for three kinds: Menu, Gravatar and Text).  Other kinds not shown on the image, but that I’ve used —  “Search” “Follow” “Archives” “Top Ten Posts” “Comments” “Top Posts” (automated) [My Tweets] are all types of blog-provided widgets.

I have several long Text (composed, not automated) widgets with different names; one of while categorized as “Text” holds the “Go To” (Most Current Posts & a few others) links for the blog. The blue/yellow striping was manually added through style-changing.  It all takes time… *** (See second image & nearby comments below)

Some widgets add visitor-count icons or little add-ons.

Put all together, as in the blog example, the top is fixed, but the bottom is moveable, the bottom kept getting lower and lower.

Here (see image), from inside my blog, each widget looks like just a file folder label; but as displayed outside on the sidebar all contents are just strung out, one after another.  Several of my sidebar text widgets particularly long here only because I included so much text (often with links) and more than one widget’s worth of text with links.  Menu widgets are long when they display my post titles, also I’m sure you noticed, also long.

This virtual space, that is, a blog (sidebar) can be extended by adding items (downwards) almost indefinitely, and after a certain point, it gets too long.  That’s the situation I’m addressing here.

Analogies: the sidebar is like a tall and (here) narrow picture-frame, or any tall narrow rectangular wall space in that (1) Things (photos, momentos, decorations, anything that’ll stick to the space) can be added to, deleted from that space and (2) in what order can be re-arranged.  The  “Widgets”  (generic term) are those smaller pieces. It’s got borders, it’s got conditions, but there’s some flexibility.

The sidebar is on constant display, no matter which post or page you’re on..

(Next “mini-section” with sidebar images references mentions some of my current inquiry, but principles don’t change that much):

LGH Blog Sidebar, ‘GO TO’ widget is in fact a Text widget || Screen Shot 2019-07-08

***(re: Top-of-the-blog Sidebar Widget labeled “GO TO: All Posts, New Home (Front) Page – Other Recent New Pages (Jan. 2018ff)” see nearby image.  That’s a Text Widget, and added title (which I should change soon) and the “text” I added was five links, with alternating background-colors.

RE: Links 3, 4, and 5 there:  Based on recent investigations, and new developments in this “field,” I probably should change (or add to) the last two, or even three links there.  As they stand, they are classic drill-downs (transferable to other situations) and deal with ongoing organizations, but still over a year old, and I know some people don’t get that while current events may change, principles of doing a basic drill-down (what to check for) don’t change so often.…

Some of the key players influencing the family court or court-reform systems haven’t changed that much either, although they certainly can and often do change names, names of the latest promoted causes, and find new organizational homes: whether websites or not.  Sometimes they also say they’ve changed names when in fact it’s “added a dba” making finding the financials harder.

(Recent example: It took me a while based on this website blaring an INactive “dba” as though it was a current one, to locate WHICH of the MANY “Prizker” foundations, not one of which had the name provided, was the “J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation” (<~referenced here, no link provided) involved in “Priztker Children’s Initiative.” (<~referenced again, by that exact name, in the “About Us” under the website PritzkerChildrensInitiative.org).  JB Pritzker being the current Governor of the State of Illinois and characterized as the wealthiest person in US Congress, I felt it worth some follow-up.

I scanned a nonprofits database, the IRS.gov listing of foundations, and eventually (to my shame, having seen how many were in Chicago, Illinois, not having tried there first) that both the above names (see those links) were in fact expired “dbas” of The Pritzker Family Foundation, EIN#300039820” established in 2002 in Santa Monica, CA, moved in 2004 to Chicagoland (Evanston) and in later years providing lists of grantees in illegible (to the naked eye) format, after starting in reasonably legible format and much smaller amounts for the first few years.  (Grantees are also presented in date of award order – -not by entity name, geography, or size, resulting in multiple grants to a single org. in a single year showing up in different places on the lists).

 

Through doing those drill-downs and understanding those principles, you can also tell if you’re being sold (as public policy) aged-out programming with newly shrink-wrapped, trade-marked labels on the outside; in the case of San Francisco-based Kids’ Turn submerging under a Child Protection nonprofit (SF CAPC? DNR. See post) part of a national CAC network based in Alabama), then changing its name again even before the latest tax return was out.  My front page also mentioned this.

In the private arena, the gender-based advocacy or programming (M, F,  LGBQT…) is often driven by foundations owned by billionaires, who it seems are getting increasingly efficient and coordinated in their operations and campaigns targeting things public.

It shouldn’t be breaking news that billionaires who network with other billionaires to influence public policy around coordinated-in-advance favorite issues (most read:  “early childhood education” though not all), often remain billionaires for at least a generation, and often have children (make that more than one).  They are rarely limited to actions in just one state (or country), have more discretionary income and, generally, staff/employees, and resources to expand operations.  And they can and do buy and sell major media — or just set up nonprofits and use those websites (along with sponsored university centers) to synchronize resources, mutual referrals, and publicity. Again, it’s not just the individual output, it’s also the resonance.

Similarly, organizations (such as AFCC) which started “a thing” tend to mentor and help promote younger professionals, their social/collegiate “children” also.  It’s not only getting principles, it’s also building an awareness of certain foundations’ collaborations and focus, and how they share leadership among each other, websites, mutual referral perks, and seek to run certain trademarked programming. SO MUCH OF THIS IS DONE NON-PROFIT!!  WITHHOLDING or placing roadblocks to identifying entity names and locations (i.e., legal domicile) is obstructionist, and leads to obvious questions about purpose and how “public-interest” is it to obstruct, hinder, slow down or even completely defeat public identification of/access to the accounts of coordinated nonprofits while accelerating expansion and networks to run the programming and propaganda about how great it is?

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Therefore if you look at some of the earlier ones, as my top-right GoTo Links identify (some of them) you can’t go too far off IF you follow through on who’s continued operatingl in which spheres and causes today, and how those causes are promoted.  There are certain identifiable formulas, and sharing of those formulas among those involved. (See “Frameworks Institute” or just SEE through observation + look for the named organizations + watch their financial reporting habits, which also fall into certain patterns, only one of which is “withholding“…) .

In writing sidebar widgets, I put (past tense) text under “Text” widgets, under each “Gravatar” widget, and I have as you can see at least two “Menu” widgets — Why so much?

Because early on in blogging (2010, 2011 at least) I saw and sensed a need to summarize and differentiate this blog from others basically re-posting others’ work without regard to which organization (nonprofit) produced it, or any awareness where a web domain may hide a much larger foundation (or, government funding) when posting.

This blog is not just an echo-chamber with my story attached.  It is my voice on material which I have investigated, kept track of over time, categorized (in different ways than usual for the field — which is by issues or causes, not entities and whether public or private). It sounds different, and coming from other blogs, with so many readers active in the field, or dealing with the consequences of having to be in those public systems attempting to protect selves or children, or themselves from false allegations of being a threat to children, often alleged by a documented abuser, I talk different because I look at the containers, the conduits.  I do not just look at the “contents” and argue content.  it’s that “operations” viewpoint.  Sidebars are intended to remind people of that, constantly, while reading, or before they may get into a specific post or page.  My sidebars are either summaries (if text + links) or visual reminders (when links-only), points of reference, not “full drill-downs (impossible in that space).”

They aim to signal, “There’s more here, and it’s not what you might expect.”

The contents of this post are likely either new to you [1] or a helpful review [2] except for the introduction (My introductions are always new because they refer to and incorporate bits of & links to research fresh on my mind). 

Some introductions explore new analogies or was to summarize and symbolize the macro-economic, public/private, individual/basic-legal-rights-compromising [3] landscape, the state of which landscape being why I haven’t quit blogging these topics yet [4] where others in my shoes or similar ones already have, whether they burnt out, chickened out, or ‘timed out’ prematurely from domestic violence or familicide roadkill, mid-report, mid-litigation, midway on the highway, they hoped, to freedom or even safety, if this even exists, without so much freedom. 

Paragraph footnotes: [1] (if you’re new to the blog or my writing elsewhere) [2] (and easier to read because wider margins)  [3] (through family courts and many other networked human development and “family improvement” “healthy, happy, and well-behaved population” initiatives) [4] I guarantee you it’s not because of any private foundation backing or ongoing government grants and contracts!  [DONATE buttons still active: still not tax-deductible, small amounts still welcome].

LAYOUT:

Only Two Main Sections:

“INTRODUCTION,” and “Re-ALLOCATED SIDEBAR WIDGETS, a.k.a. MAIN CONTENT”

(and I just off-ramped most of the “INTRODUCTION” before publishing… LINK is below Image Gallery of Sidebar Widget Thumbnails)

WIDGET GALLERY: (If the widget image is here, so are its full contents , below):

NEXT: Another 4-image gallery representing just one sidebar widget, has been residing near the bottom as one of the earliest summaries, I think)…Annotated and labeled after screenshot, as you can see.  This widget (I found after moving it here) is nearly 2000 words.  I’ve placed it between the 2nd and 3rd images (Widgets) shown above, although it was written earlier.

If I ever get a personality transplant, or style makeover, we might skip the post introductions.  Until then, they are my outlet for current thoughts on the specific or overall situations, and I will say what I have to say, usually up front, before the main payload of any post.  They are also a teaching (repetition) opportunity: reminders of key points.

Over the last few weeks, reviewing, at times aghast at the top nine sticky posts on this blog, I began doing more about them.  For some other posts too I have begun to extract and compile sections of text meant as brief summaries of my position, reason for blogging, or purpose for the blog, which creep constantly into new posts, in an effort to keep reminding (us) of basic concepts and vocabulary I use to lead to better grasp of the flow of power and finances influencing the causes coursing through the family courts and related agencies (especially but not only in the USA).

The summaries there are probably better written because they are more recent.  Not to discredit those here, but unlike some of the widgets content here, the upcoming posts hold no signficant compilation of links on the abstracted “Blog Previews” “About this Blog” etc.

All of these combined tell a story and story lines which are not, for the most part, ever handled in mainstream media or in sponsored advocacy blogging.  Parents and other uninvolved professionals tend to line up behind, front for, promote, or try to become like existing advocates.  I do not and for conscience’s (and common sense’s) sake, cannot. I wish others showed more independence based on their deep curiosity for explanations which hold water and a dislike for having information withheld which sheds light on more plausible explanations, from which better solutions might come.

INTRODUCTION

RE: Post the shortlink ending “-abt” whether serendipity (a happy accident) or a sign from the universe…

(Case-sensitive short-link ends “-abt,” Possibly indicating God, or the universe, or random chance, has a sense of humor.  See “Abt Associates” in HHS activities.)

Introducing “Abt (Associates), Devex, Raytheon and the massive expansion of Health and Human Services as industry developed by and for the military turned (while continuing serving those purposes) also to consumer products and bulking up the administrative (executive branch) population management sector.  This is part of U.S. history by way of a window into some of the corporations involved and what they’re up to these days.  (I have a spinoff post for Abt Associates in the works also).

…This reminded me of the consultant Abt Associates, Inc..  Throughout these (ten!) years of looking up HHS grants and grantees, time on HHS.gov websites beyond just its TAGGS.HHS.gov (Advanced Search mode) website, looking at the acquisitions history of groups like Maximus or ICF International (getting fat on federal contracts and/or grants) or reading yet another pilot program evaluation or assessment, along with names like “Mathematica, Inc.” of parenting or fatherhood interventions (federally funded), Abt Associates just kept on coming up.  I gathered they are for-profit consulting of some (or many) sorts.  Seeing this reminder, I renewed my curiosity, wrote a post (fascinating background context of historical relevance) and moved it to another post whose case-sensitive shortlink now ends in “abD” not “-abt.”

I added a brief section introducing the “Abt Associates” material only for future reference to Abt, Raytheon and even yet another center at Harvard** (Harvard-Kennedy School of Government) which surfaced through that,  and in general, share the wealth. (This quick search of TAGGS for “Abt” grants (only: does not include any contracts) picked up an unrelated Tennessee Company, ‘ABT Molecular Imaging, formed only in 2006 in Tennessee (vs. Massachusetts).  ABT Molecular Imaging, which relates to DNA sequencing technology, also just filed for bankruptcy (June 2018) and was picked up by the “TeamBEST” family of companies.  Fascinating. For that company, “ABT” is an acronym, not a person’s very short last name, as with Abt Associates named after Clark C. Abt).

**”The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs” (BelferCenter.org | oil, petrochemical, gas and now investment management family wealth) at Harvard-Kennedy School for Government (HKS.Harvard.Edu) which has many other centers named after famous people and/or their respective sponsors.  Take a look at the list (these Centers represent only those under HKS; Harvard as a whole of course has many more, one of which I’ve also been posting on because of the people, programs, and foundations involved.  Belfer is “RESEARCH, IDEAS AND LEADERSHIP FOR A MORE SECURE, PEACEFUL, WORLD.”

Below that brief section on “Abt Associates et al {NOW MOVED ELSEWHERE//LINK BELOW) .” you’ll find [in the form of re-allocated content] historic, basic information about this blog’s message and my relationship to it: summaries written for readers over, mostly, the earlier years.  Unlike posts the sidebar widgets do not generate and display any date-stamp.  When added, they do not display as a link under “Archives” (neither, FYI, do “Pages” as opposed to “Posts.”). I plan to move at least one widget containing a list of links as I have more than one up there, will remove the list of “blogs I follow” which is outdated — and I don’t read their posts much, and will remove some text widgets written over the years to communicate why I kept blogging.

My reading is generated from current developments and as tied to historically active organizations or program I perceive to be impacting the “family court matters” as a field, and particularly, future safety options for women and children within it.  If you’re completely new to this blog, you may not be aware of how deeply embedded “father-friendly” as a systemic cultural and service delivery value is, and how many billion-dollar organizations (as well as formed-for-the occasion miniature, by comparison, hangers-on entities) are involved.    

Bonus Analogy Extra: The “Whale Shark & Remoras” (just two articles) mini-section.

Included for some concrete points of reference to concepts not grasped and discussed (enough) by the public, at least any public I have much access to.  

Overall concepts of this blog include numbers, time, and categories of economic activity by size and place.  By ongoing exposure, I hope to prod people’s own/individual consciences and common sense (i.e., self-respect, integrity) to admit that common court-reform, problem-analysis jargon just may not need common need.  Other more functional vocabulary exists to describe universal realities in non-religious, non-political, [and non-psychological] terms even though the practice of religion/psychology  and politics — with persuasion through combination of force and framing reality — do pervade most human life. 

I want us to see the framing and force tactics that perpetuate size differentials in countries whose governance at least implies representation and equal rights under the law.

~~~~~>>>YEAH, WELL I’VE MOVED THE “REMORA / WHALE SHARK” content and another short section featuring “Abt Associates” to the following post, so I can get this one out now:

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RE-ALLOCATED SIDEBAR WIDGETS, a.k.a. “MAIN CONTENT”

Separations: A bulleted title labeling any names (as taken from the sidebar previous labels) starts each widget’s content container. Each new widget has its own container, I’m copying & pasting widget contents with their formatting. Deleted a few blank lines; left the various “Donate” buttons in place except not taking up a full-width line.  DNR when exactly, but it was probably in 2013 I began adding some Donate buttons.  Other than this, the blog has never been monetized.

This is a continuation:  [Really Want Systems Change? [Contributions Welcome & Needed, Cont’d.]

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BLOCK COPY FROM SIDEBAR, SOME LINKS MAY HAVE EXPIRED, MANY HAVE NOT.

(This may be a near or close duplicate of another Vital Links Alpha/Chrono Sidebar Menu.  A few links which are not from this blog are highlit-yellow or in bold, and there’s one section which seems to be mostly off-blog where I added some domain-name next to the link.

Most “Chrono” are followed by “Alpha” (I stopped the chrono with items up to 2013)

Vital Info-Links (Menu)

End, “VITAL LINKS/ALPPHA” Widget (links menu) which is now being removed from the sidebar..//LGH 2019July5

Images From Blog Sidebar for ‘New2U or Helpful Rvw’ post (-abt) ~~ 2019July5 FRI PST

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Images From Blog Sidebar for ‘New2U or Helpful Rvw’ post (-abt) ~~ 2019July5 FRI PST [The TA&T Excuse]

Re:why “We can’t HEAR you” in situations involving domestic violence (at the prosecution level) further enables “We’re Training the Trainers to Raise Awareness about DV” at the nonprofit and DV industry level. Let’s talk about who already knew that the VAWA grants faucet (1994ff) was matched, more than equally by a “Marriage/ Fatherhood” promotion faucet (both, federal and private combined), and have collaborated to split that pie, while keeping the public in the dark, which is how the public prefers to be kept about such matters…

However this California criminal defense attorney’s explanation that:
“Domestic Battery” [Penal Code 243(e)1] is the least serious, Aggravated Battery [243(d)] is a Wobbler” (misdemeanor or felony). Yes, you can receive stitches, broken bones, or a concussion, and have it called misdemeanor (“say, what??”). Also, Corporal Injury on a Spouse, Cohabitant, or Fellow Parent [273.5] is per this attorney, a wobbler too. Sounds very wobbly, right? Also note:

What sort of penalties am I facing if I am convicted of PC 243(e)(1) Domestic Battery?
If you are convicted of 243(e)(1), you may face the following penalties: Up to 1 year in county jail;
Up to a $2,000 fine; Informal or “summary” probation for up to 3 years.

If probation is granted, which is typical, the court will require you to complete a minimum 1-year Batterer’s Program. The court may also require, in lieu of a $2,000 fine, You pay a maximum of $5,000 to a Battered Women’s Shelter, and/or You pay restitution to the accuser for reasonably incurred expenses as a result of this crime, including medical expenses.”

Either way, someone is going into a program, although it sounds very wobbly, no matter how it happens. What most do — when children are involved — is attempt to get it promptly into the local conciliation court where it becomes a relationship problem ,and services can be ordered, keeping the local DA’s hands clear for such things as, stumping for more funds (grants) for more One-Stop-Justice-shops [[=my 6/2010 blog on this]] (family justice centers [scroll down to see]. Actually the first was started by a City Attorney, son of an evangelistic father [search “Gwinn” here], and who grew up on a Christian conference camp center [page 2, here/or hover cursor]). Whether it’s Southern or Northern California, it seems to me the religious sector is keeping the justice programs AND DA’s offices “all in the family,” in this case a Catholic one, leaving people fleeing religiously rationalized, enabled, and covered-up spousal abuse, in truth, nowhere to run. At every turn, we are told to go away and just work it out. So, when “things happen” these officials then explain to distraught parents [been there more than once] why crimes involving CHILDREN, and a mother and a father, just aren’t crimes [translation:-why should we prosecute when there’s a family court staffed by people who on the faith-based, family and marriage/fatherhood funding streams nearby? What’s in it for us?. Go away — we’re busy strengthening the domestic violence field, and Connecting the Dots].

Hunting for, Gathering, and Reporting the Truth…

…is a public interest cause. If it rings true, and you want this NOT to get buried (again), pls. click and help. Suggested minimum $20. The stakes are always high when truth [in these matters especially] is at risk.
Truth also needs to be understood; that takes knowing the context, which also takes TIME.

It’s taken a very long time, but I have also been. Connecting the Dots, that is. Question: If DV is not a crime or at least not really to be prosecuted, if possible, then what were all the DV professionals doing the whole time, and why?

Hmmm… They have been figuring out how to reclassify the crimes as a treatment opportunity (merging organizations), setting up their various nonprofits in mutual-interest, professional providers’ alliances (connecting those dots, 2012).

Something tells me, despite the verbiage, the plan is NOT to stop, end, prevent, [or any other verb implying cessation, or prosecution] domestic violence, family violence, or child abuse, but simply to set up professions to handle the constant inflow of new customers, that is, the survivors at least. There’s no longer even a pretense that this isn’t a specialized professional field, although the pretense is kept up, from the laws still on the Penal Code that it’s a crime, at least a “wobbler.”

“Enhancing Leadership Programs for the Next Generation” The future of the movement to end DV [Futures Without Violence?] depends on our ability to successfully invest in young leaders. [from a nonprofit dedicated to training, “Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness, in Santa Clara County, [Charity #132625 Delinquent: Search here]

has a retired? Judge LaDoris Cordell on its advisory board. GOOD. See Dec. 2013 Mercury News article about a (truly heinous) hate crime, racial, perpetrated (by 4 Caucasian young men upon a African-American young man, their roommate) at San Jose State. A bicycle lock around his neck, and worse, was involved. A task force was appointed. This same Judge Cordell, as its head, in November wrote the newspaper, asking why this hate crime “wobbler” was charged as a misdemeanor, given that:

While each [District Attorney] had his or her own style and approach to leadership of the office, the reputation of that office has remained one of heavy handedness when it comes to filing charges. Commit a crime in Santa Clara County and there will be a very tough response from the district attorney’s office.
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So how is it that these four San Jose State students were charged, not with felonies, but with misdemeanors for conduct that, if proven to be true, was racist, assaultive, and ongoing? ~ ~ ~…A hate crime is a criminal act that causes physical injury, emotional suffering or property damage which is motivated by the victim’s race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability. A felony is a serious criminal offense punishable by confinement in state prison; a misdemeanor is a less serious crime punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year. ~ ~ ~What is the message that these misdemeanor charges send to the accused? Bully, intimidate, and racially torment your African American roommate and it’s not really that serious. If the allegations are true, these sadly misguided young men, as well as other students who might be tempted to behave in this fashion, are in need of “felony” wake-up calls.

Precisely. All I want to point out is — the list of “hate” crimes of the same nature, with the same consequences, IF the word “sex” referring to one’s gender (male, or not-male//See U.S. Congress!) was included, would up-end the justice system and economy.

The FBI definition again verifies: Perpetrate a criminal offense against person or property to someone because of his or her: race, religion, disability, ethnic identity or sexual orientation, and it’s a hate crime:

Investigating hate crime is the number one priority of our Civil Rights Program. Why? Not only because hate crime has a devastating impact on families and communities, but also because groups that preach hatred and intolerance plant the seeds of terrorism here in our country.

Defining a Hate Crime

A hate crime is a traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias

What the Family Court system and its environs is telling us (all):

“But, do the same any or all of the above to a woman because she’s a woman — and it’s business as usual. ”

So — IS there an excuse for domestic violence? In my opinion, no. In reality, in practice, and institutionalized — yes, and no end of excuses; in fact nothing BUT excuses, plus a lot of talk about reaching out, preventing engaging (name your population) and sponsoring more media campaigns. Futures Without Violence is now 100% owner of a real estate “Inc” which owns property in the SF Praesidio and is dealing with figures in the $40million++, let’s talk about being “tapped in” to primary sources ($7.5 million endowment from the Ford Foundation, for a global display center and conference room, apparently this is necessary to earn the public’s respect for any public policy…). The victims they’re ignoring, and their feedbacks (not just mine) can “go jump in the lake,” apparently.

So I recommend focusing instead on ways to get those of us IN such situations, but still in the family court system (years later) OUT of that situation. As the system is designed (like abusers know) to prevent access to funds permitting exit, and/or hunt down people who flee, just now the best solution I can think of, as a survivor, is ways to persuade the public NOT that “mothers are people too” but that it’s in their best interest to dismantle the system. After over 20 years of dealing with exactly this kind of hate and because I was first, a woman (in a marriage), and an educated woman; second, a single mother by choice NOT in the same marriage, I’m fed up with having everything BUT pervasive violence against women in the USA THROUGH THE FAMILY COURTS, not treated as what it is — ongoing terrorism based on gender, beyond race and to a degree beyond socioeconomic profile.

In practice, currently, the words “domestic violence” means “Give me my next VAWA grant” and at this point, not much more. And yet women are still being killed, locally, and brutally. Men are also killing each other, and adding to this, there are the times law enforcement shoot to kill also. However, what about the child support agency’s “compromise of arrears” programs, which women entering the courts are NOT told about going in, based on gender, reunification of families, and which also tell us: A debt to the mother of your children (if you’re the father and have been in the custody system long enough) is not a real debt either? This is essentially dishonest. Before you CS-paying men get angry (or your new women), realize I have also a blog called “boycottchildsupport” and check it out, too. I’m serious about it, although I’m still owed thousands by the father of our children, and also need this for survival, although it’s not coming. This country is not serious about actually stopping any kind of violence. It’s serious about keeping the funding coming for systems of population control for when it gets REALLY violent. “IMHO.”

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