Table of Contents 2019, FamilyCourtMatters.org’s Posts + Pages: January 1 – Dec. 31(complete list).
(Post updated month by month since first posted Aug. 5. Some updates include explanations or commentary..//LGH Dec. 19, 2019
I added the last post published in 2019 (Dec. 21) to this Table on June 10, 2020; dates covered are later than date first published//LGH.
YOU ARE READING:
Table of Contents 2019, FamilyCourtMatters.org’s Posts + Pages: January 1 – Dec. 31 (complete list).
(Shortlink ends “-ayV.” About 9,600 words (w/ monthly updates extending the table; word-count high in part because of the post “tags” added to the table as their own rows). Last update Dec. 19, 2019, adds all Nov. posts and all Dec. posts so far (@12/19).
Post published August 5, and updated periodically as the blog grows. The post shows on the table, chronologically under Aug. 5th, but being marked “Sticky” remains in top position of “Current Posts.” TOCs 2018 and 2019 are both recommended reading for my current research focus (browse titles) as is anything which made it onto my top right sidebar widget. Direct links to both this post and TOC 2018 show on my right sidebar, and both also are marked sticky, so TOC 2018 is also stationed among the top 12 posts. I’ll explain this again below with some images.
Within the table of contents, you’ll see this August 5 post easily from its white-on-black color scheme:
| 2019 | FAMILYCOURTMATTERS.org The Year in Posts & Pages (so far, through Dec. 16) (with approximate word counts for each and “tags” for some) |
URL: short-link ends: |
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| (Normal color for a row containing a post title & link) | ||
| Aug. 5 STICKY, & THIS POST |
Table of Contents 2019, Family Court Matters’ Posts + Pages: January 1 – Dec. 16 (so far). (“Sticky.” About 6,000 words initial; the word count growing month-by-month with each update of course) |
-ayV |
Table of Contents Post PREVIEW
Table of Contents 2019 here, unlike TOCs for 2012-2014, 2016, and 2017, incorporates any new pages by date published. Individual TOCs for late 2012 – 2017 can still be accessed within the top dozen sticky posts through the one for “2017” which internalizes links to the others: full title: 2017 Table of Contents Continues Themes From 2016. See TOC for: (1) 2017 now thru March Sept. 21; (2) 2016 All; (3) Sept. 2012 – June 2014, Reverse Chrono, and (4) See Also More Info Below. Shortlink-ends 5qZ,first published Jan. 9, 2017..
- The 2017 TOC (which holds links to earlier ones) is a formerly sticky post accessible I just realized, now through the widget box “New To Blog? Want My Position Summary or a Review?” publ. Jan. 27, 2018.
- That access is a bit cumbersome, so I’ll add a more direct link to the sidebar (about the same placement) now, because TOC 2017 should be still easily accessible. This will alter and update the sidebar top right “Go To” Widget (which contains TOC 2019 and 2018 already; an image of it is lower on this post too). //LGH 2019. In my latest post (Dec. 16, 2019) I had occasion to include small section reviewing TOC access points.
Table of Contents 2018 (<~second version, published March 24, 2019; short-link ending “-9y7”) also includes pages. The “ARCHIVES” function does not. Here, I highlit pages bright-yellow because the short-link protocol for them differs (by just one capitalized letter) from that for posts.
While I have fewer pages overall, the ones I do have tend to be as important as key posts and often paired with them. Some exist to give more in-depth detail on a topic a postmay have introduced.
IMPROMPTU COMMENTS FROM MY October 2 UPDATE, this color background, green border:
In September 2019, I worked extensively on (condensing) the massive Front Page to the blog, resulting in some off-ramped posts, connecting links, and updates
I’m not sure how much longer I can keep blogging and wanted this blog more accessible.
All my indicators are there’s still nothing like it out there: written by someone with experience of both the domestic violence protection and the family court system but despite that personal experience still focused on obtaining and featuring basic data (i.e., much from databases) available to common people (i.e., people without access to academic journals, insider information on the courts, or individual court cases) to show system organization, and that built-in conflicts of interest within that organization as a rationale and solid — as opposed to “assumptions unspoken/unchallenged, and when challenged, found lacking proof — base for (family court) system reform.**
(**See “Clarifications added Oct. 3,” next inset. The statements from this paragraph continue below that inset and brief “footprint” from it).
Clarifications in part say:
(Footprint left from now off-ramped material):
. . . It seems that what you do (or fail to do) after you know matters the most.
**(Nonprofits who manage to get cited, and eager to file amicus briefs, testify before task forces, and to the extent their leadership has academic connections, publish in a law or other journal), some getting minor USDOJ/NIJ grants to start finally backing up the [ridiculous and barely supported] numeric claims about the family courts, others working more getting their names alongside the former in media articles about the problems in family courts). See my June 29, 2014 post for a list as of about that time, but I’ve known before then. Collectively, they make this blog necessary, and its basic work, harder.
In my “58 Essays” and “Acknowledgements” (now second and third sticky posts on this blog) — Acknowledgements, Executive Summary (Current Projects | Rolling Blackouts) and What Makes This Blog “What You Need to Know” (July 31, 2019). (<~~Click to Access; shortlink ends “-auh”, also marked sticky). I gave these groups a backhanded credit for the existence (as a necessity) of this blog.
[Continuing from just above the Oct. 3 inset and this ‘footprint’ left here from it:]
The family court system has been but shouldn’t really be characterized as either politically progressive or politically conservative, as understood in the USA or elsewhere. It is what it is, and developed over a timeline with specific agents, and actors already in place and in power.
In more than one country family courts continue to have damaging effects and outcomes (“roadkill”).
I see that both the actors[1] who helped originally set up the family courts and the (self-appointed/system-anointed) family court reform movements [2] have professional “story-tellers” with revisionist, fictionalized, or just plain dumbed-down, illogical explanations bordering on mythical fairytales with religious superstition for those bad outcomes, including but not limited to headline-making “roadkill.”
[1] People, associations, and/or institutions such as universities, or parts of the federal government (USA); [2] protective parents, battered mothers, family rights, etc.
I chose early on to go look at who’s funding such myth-making; what an expedition it’s been!
By the way, more logical answers continue to be hard to argue against, as shown by collective refusal to engage, attempts to co-opt on-line discussions with a highly diluted version (I say this with specific websites in mind) and in general refusal to mention this blog by name while I know as blog administrator many of the same groups and their leaders (as well as, per “statcounter” certain universities, government entities, and followers from specific countries) have been following it.
{END, “IMPROMPTU COMMENTS FROM MY October 2 UPDATE”}
Despite the uncomfortable content, we need more logical answers to counter the seemingly easier and strong collective urge to instead “play the fool,” and to continue to be exploited because it’s more comfortable socially to join existing movements than start one. This reminds me of how, on the surface, it may seem easier to submit to abuse than confront it, something I know about experientially, before, during, and after. You’d better believe it’s a “gender” issue, but it’s also a freedom and economic issue. Abuse is a form of slavery and exploitation. Those who profit the most from its perpetuation are going to, generally, be the most resistant and likely to try scapegoating just single (demographically labeled) groups rather than correct the system.
I would never dedicate, as I have, ten years of investigative blogging and (as possible at any time) social networking on this issue were it not so deeply dangerous to future generations, and I have been and am a mother, no matter who may or may not wish to acknowledge that socially, or in my own family line once I confronted in-home domestic violence and all kinds of “coercive control” i.e., “abuse” and (ever since) had to also deal up close and even from afar with their intent to stuff it back into the closet, at least as it pertained to my family line and our shared family line.
There is no excuse for the levels of abuse we have condoned through passive ignorance of our own governmental systems in flux (USA and internationally). At the heart of this is utilization of tax-exempt status in the private sector to stockpile influence and resources to drive the public sector, which is SUPPOSED to be “wealth-blind” when it comes to legal rights.
//LGH Oct. 2, 2019, tweaked some Nov. 3 during table update to add October’s posts.
The main, but not only important content, on this page is the table which looks like and begins:
| 2019 | FAMILYCOURTMATTERS.org, The Year (So Far) in Posts,* 2019
(with approximate word counts for each and “tags” for some) |
URL: short-link ends: |
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| Jan.5, 2019 | 2018: A Year On This Blog | Table of Contents (Posts) | This One is “Sticky” [@ Jan. 5, 2019]
Under 4,000 words, but see also, below, Table of Contents 2018 (<~second version, better format, published March 24, 2019; short-link ending “-9y7”) |
-9p3 |
| Feb. | (no posts were published this month) | |
| March 4
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How 501©3 “The Next American City,” with help from at least Five BIG Foundations, lost its “American,” while Devastated Detroit’s DESIGN is Anointed by UNESCO (Written Sept. 2016, but Published Mar. 2019). (about 8,600 words)
“The post was fully written in 2016 as you see below (except this update in this background-color) but, through my oversight, was not published until now, 2019.”
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-4iT |
(The above was a sample of what the post looks like. Scroll or page down for the full table…)
re: ‘TWO HELPFUL LINKS’ — Image from TopRightSidebar, ‘GO TO POSTS’ widget, shows TOC 2019 & 2018 + ‘Key Posts 2012-2017’ (LGH, @ Sept. 1, 2019) [Actual Widget shows current rev. date (through Dec. 16, 2019), though this earlier snapshot of the sidebar doesn’t.
~~>Serendipity: Occasionally reading some other posts, you may run across a tiny section with the image to left and some active links to TOC 2018 and 2019.
COLOR-CODING: For some posts in this table I added separate rows with tags, immediately beneath the row for each respective post, labeled “TAGS” in the left column and “n/a” in the right. I labeled “Sticky” posts “STICKY” in the left column, no extra highlighting. I called attention to any new pages because they are highlit yellow. (and marked “PAGES” in middle and right-hand column). The addition of tags probably doubles the size of the post (and table) but I feel is helpful information to browse or notice.
My average post size is probably about 8-10,000 words, but several are longer. Because of this, I’ve included approximate word-counts for each post on the table.
“BONUS CONTENT” FORMERLY (Aug. 5 – Nov. 4) BELOW THE TABLE IS NOW OFF-RAMPED:
At first, this post also held below the table excerpts in the form of screenprints from a few posts I felt held substantial drill-downs and relevance; i.e., I felt that if you understood those, you could understand similar situations and the larger landscape in which our family courts operate (“transferable skills” and awareness); I’ve removed that content, along with “Clarifications from Oct. 3,” and published both sections November 4 in a single post called:
Bonus Content (Illustrations, More In-Depth Details) by Post, from Certain 2019 Posts, ‘Oct. 3 Clarifications’ and my FNAQs (Publ. Nov. 4, 2019). (holds EXTRA CONTENT (excerpts) for SOME POSTS (by date)
This being a new post, also shows in chrono (date) sequence in the Table of Contents.
LAYOUT:
<>PREVIEW (above, you just read with a “Read-more” link), then (starting below);
<>OVERVIEW (“year in review & commentary, in pale-pink background), [with a second “Read-More” link to my “By Now We Should Know” post];
<>“OF INTEREST (A table within a table/blog merger,” tan background describes a special project this year); then <>a short “LEGEND” (explaining the table and use of short-links); last, <>THE TABLE.
SUGGESTION: FIRST, BROWSE THE TITLES (and lists of tags) for a sense of overall content, basic themes and recurring organizations — or professionals — I’ve done “drill-downs” on. That’s another reason I use long, descriptive titles rather than short ones with sound-bytes but few clues to the content. With so many posts over the years, and most of them a miniature research project (with “drill-downs” of specific organizations), I also browse titles frequently to stay on track.
My LONG TITLES are intentional, to keep some vocabulary, basic concepts which I find are often neglected in standard advocacy or mainstream media rhetoric, in mind through repetition. The habit also helps me with internal references: after all, over 800 individually written posts is a lot to keep track of! Within the table, click on any title to access that post (or page). You can also click on tags, but they are there mostly for description.
ALL POSTS are MY VOICE, ORIGINAL MATERIAL: Typically I do not re-post (though I often quote others’ writings on blog, mainstream media, organization or public institution (i.e., government websites) as appropriate to comment or respond. — If it’s on here, I wrote it except where referencing or quoting others. The voice on this blog is my own on its subject matter, and the perspective developed over time is also mine. Having processed the information, I exhort others to also in order to get their own understanding onto solid ground, resting on facts, evidence, and from sources they’ve put their hands (eyes) on — which swallowing anyone’s summaries whole (without proof) isn’t. Without this processing, it’s reliance on others’ testimony, or reliance on the (often self-appointed) expert testimony, a dubious definition when so much conflict of interest and censorship of information exists within the fields from which people tend to enthusiastically testify.
…etc.
Table of Contents Post
OVERVIEW:
2019 Overview – recent work, a bit of sarcasm** & personal input.
This year was hard work on several posts, including merging a blog, completing previous year’s tables (2018), cleaning it up, and no real cessation in ongoing attention to key situations. I continue do this innately, no matter what the season, and hope some day to have more people, others with whom I can discuss this — as opposed to others who may wish me to do their own “homework” for their specific situations, rather than starting to do it themselves — and teaching others how to, or (more common) others who wish I would quit looking things up and bringing things up about the standard “family court practices” advocacy which just, apparently, can’t handle the topics I keep bringing up.
I used to “jump to attention” more often when specific requests or crises showed up. Right now, they could surface in almost any state, so I’ve continued to focus on specific KEY states which provide clear examples of how the family courts were set up, and what types of programs are being run through them, and how (where clear enough) financed by both public and private sectors.
In 2019, as other posts have brought up, I was completing an interstate move begun last summer, under duress and having already been forced out of anything sustainable (i.e., a rental lease). I am still operating solo as to the blog, and for the most part, this type of research and reporting. I worked hard this year to make it more approachable and complete (tables of contents) and may be reaching (or beyond) the limits of what a blog, only, can convey, without a live person to point to it, run a workshop, etc. — activities my personal situation, for now, precludes doing.
(I believe it’s the June 22, 2019, “By Now We Should Know” post which takes on the concept of using the word “professionals” as opposed to specifying “in WHAT” by a certain international, multi-disicplinary organization. But memory sometimes fails, which is where tables of contents (and writing things down!) helps!)
“JUST kidding…”
Just in case, though, I’ll work on some catch-phrases, sound-bytes, and buzz-words… The key seems to be, pick a phrase — just two or three words are all that’s needed — pick words SO common they’re in use everywhere, assign a context-specific meaning we understand, but the general usage has so many different meanings, no one else would. Arrange any two of them so it’s unclear whether one is a verb or not, although verbs should be avoided unless they are to STOP something no one could really disagree with — like “Stop Violence”…
Anything with the words Child | Family (or ‘Families’) | Prevent, Stop or End | “Abuse” in any area should do. Better yet, add “Community” “Action” or “Educate” “Resource Center” “Clearinghouse” “Center” “Initiative” “Coalition” (ad lib, ad infinitum)….
Tweak it some, get the downloadable webinar going… certify others in OUR version of truth, keep it going….such a deal. If it’s an utter failure (like so many existing ones), just add a “QIC” (Quality Improvement Center)… get conference locations in whatever our personal “bucket list” global destinations might be …
(Just describing what I’ve seen in practice…and still, somewhat, just kidding…)
Applying total structural consistency in format can be a roller-coaster ride when you’re running things impromptu from the start. I’m also tired of being constantly on poor-quality databases, or high-quality (but showing clear bias in their owners) academic journals, plowing through footnotes and bibliographies without the audience to talk to them about who’s on — and not on– those footnotes and bibliographies, in terms of unstated organizational affiliations.
Meanwhile, enjoy browsing the titles, tags, or added visuals (images, an embedded tweet or two) content below the table of contents.
Table of Contents Post
“OF INTEREST” (A table within a table/blog merger)
Special Project: April 7, 2019 post holds index & links to my Family Court Franchise System blog, basically representing a blog merger). After much effort setting this up, I haven’t published the extra merged in posts yet; continued writing on other current events in this field.
ONE POST ON THIS TABLE OF CONTENTS, LINKS TO ANOTHER ONE REFERENCING ANOTHER OF MY BLOGS. IN OTHER WORDS, A TABLE WITHIN A TABLE. OVERLAPPING SUBJECT MATTER, OFTEN ON ORGANIZATIONS, COMMISSIONS (I.E., ABA COMMISSION ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE), AND SOME PROFESSIONALS, COURTS, STILL AROUND. GIVES SOME BACKGROUND. MAIN YEARS ACTIVE: 2012-2013
I started a project this year under duress to preserve content from another of my family-court-related blogs on a non-Wordpress platform, shows up as an April 7 post — see “The Family Court Franchise System” (Blogspot.com, 2012 only, 40 posts and 7 Pages) Is Now Grafted into FamilyCourtMatters.org here (WordPress.com) as of April 7, 2019 [Updated (shortened) July 2-5, 2019]. Despite the time and effort spent merging these information onto FamilyCourtMatters.org here, I haven’t yet hit “Go” to individually re-publishing the saved posts. Browse the list of post titles (I called it “index” to distinguish from these tables of contents) to see subject matter I’ve been studying all these years. Organizations and situations are named; these organizations and situations continue active, some still “volatile,” still. THE OLDER VERSION OF POSTS LISTED THERE MAY BE UP IF THE ORIGINAL BLOG DOMAIN STILL IS; LINKS TO BOTH SHOWN.
This also demonstrates in part how long I have been reporting on such things, without charge, in the public interest, and on my own initiative. Whether that’s the “mother” in me, or the heightened sense of justice which comes, perhaps, from surviving years of (marital) abuse, someone else can judge, but a few times this year, including two posts on June 29, I did state “Why I Continue to Bother…”
In September 2019, I worked extensively on the Front Page of this blog (Shortening, organizing it) resulting in several off-ramped and updated in the process posts. I have also been more active on Twitter in recent months and may includes links to each platform on the other one’s. Keeping the media straight across various platforms is sometimes an administrative/filing issue as well as technical.
LEGEND: A quick GUIDE to the 2019 TABLE
If you’re already familiar with the blog, the “right-hand column” “short-link information” is review. It’s also (essentially) on the top sticky post of the blog as of today, again. Skip down to “TABLE”
(Yellow-highlit means a PAGE, blue-green means “Tags,”; such rows belong to the rows above, are labeled “TAGS” in the left column and “n/a” in the right. I labeled “Sticky” posts “STICKY” in the left column, no extra highlighting….).. Approximate word-count for each is in the center column under its title, and sometimes a few extra comments may show up there too.
Right-hand column (“URL short-link ends”):
This information is optional; not needed just to view. To view, just click on the post (or page) title.
This third column helpful for cites or linking to a specific post on-line by constructing the full short-link. This column only lists the part which varies (after you’ve determined whether the category is post or page). IF readers wish to reference a post, please copy the link (short-link is best) and include the date and year, referencing it as either “post” or “Page.”
I publicize the short-links on all (new) posts or pages, and here for my administrative (internal/external cross-referencing) ease, and for anyone who may want to forward or publicize a link to one of those LONG post or page titles. The right-hand column shows how each post (or page)’s specific link ends. Easy to use: “a, b, c.”
(a) Know if you’re on a post* or page.** Pick the appropriate basic shortlink URL below–copy it and paste, or just type (if you’re accurate typist) into wherever you want that link to go (a tweet, a post, a comment, an email). I have it memorized and usually just type it in, then type or copy in the extra ending characters (as in, from the right-hand column on this table).
*FOR POSTS: Case-sensitive (after the “wp.me/”) short-link for posts begins: http://wp.me/psBXH-
**FOR PAGES: identical, except the “P” is upper-case: http://wp.me/PsBXH-
(b) Add to that character string you just copied or typed in “a” the three-character short-link from the right-hand column (only one hyphen “-” needed) for a complete url.
(c ) Use combined short-link if quoting, referencing, tweeting, or re-posting (always credit the exact post or page, please; dates published especially helpful too, and my username is “Let’s Get Honest” (Twitter: @LetUsGetHonest) and this blog’s name is at the top: FamilyCourtMatters.org). NB: The blog’s name is not the username or vice versa.
I have now 840 posts and nearly 60 pages; failing to include a specific link when referencing something I’ve written isn’t fair play. If you reference, include the link and date published, unless it’s a very general comment and stated in that way. Including specifics when discussing, debating and especially when quoting is common courtesy.
(On a side-note: 58 pages are listed on a sticky post near top of the Blog (Current Posts page) as “58 Essays.” That page is basically a separate table of all pages. If I’ve added any more since then, they’ll show up here on this table. I see I added pages in 2019 on May 11, May 19, and Sept. 19.)
“Legend” (Some rows are highlit different colors; others are labeled more “quietly”
- (1) pages are highlit yellow)
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(2) Occasional rows highlit light blue-green contain tags for the previous entry. Where you see a light blue-green or “TAGS” row, the related post is the row just above. The tags rows have the most words. Tags are separated by commas. They can be clicked on, but are here mostly just for description. I don’t tag consistently; to find all occurrences of specific interest (like an organization or professional’s name), use the blog’s “Search” function instead.
- (3) “Sticky” posts are labeled “STICKY” but not highlit differently.
Thanks in advance for considering this information and learning to look and talk up some of these organizations, public/private intersections and situations. Learn to screen organizations quickly by looking up their basic information. //LGH August 5, 2019.
TABLE of CONTENTS 2019
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Let's Get Honest! Absolutely Uncommon Analysis of Family & Conciliation Courts' Operations, Practices, & History 
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