Again, this post is:

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(1) Four Reasons Why I Wrote “High-Conflict on Steroids,” my March 1 post, Now and (2) Intro to my March 26 Revisions of the Same [Publ. Mar. 28, 2022].

I’ll be including some hashtags within the post to correspond with Twitter labels, both ones I make as unique as possible to call attention to situations, and some others already in use. Using them will often lead to previous threads laying out basics on funding streams, or system networks, or (sometimes) individual professionals. I may also say “DV orgs” to avoid continually writing out “organizations” or “domestic violence,” or a few other abbreviations which by now should be known to any regular readers or followers.

I may add some images to illustrate my points about “mantra” below, and some tags, but otherwise, this is it…//LGH.

You are reading:

(1) Four Reasons Why I Wrote “High-Conflict on Steroids,” my March 1 post, Now and (2) Intro to my March 26 Revisions of the Same [Publ. Mar. 28, 2022]. (short-link here ends “-e1z”)

Of this two-part title, the first part (Four Reasons in under 1,500 words) was, for a season, on the March 1 post. Moved here March 26.

Of this title, the second part (Intro to my March 26 Revisions of the Same, about 2,000 words) is below that, although it may actually be more important. The revisions/additions are still over there but their summary and description is now here. March 1 post, “High Conflict on Steroids“)

That post was so long and had so many points of reference (while all related, it may not be that easy to see the connections for people who don’t follow entities, aren’t aware how the USA “DV organizations” are run (collectively, i.e., technically they’re not “federalized/nationalized” but through funding, in fact, they are), and who haven’t yet figured out a few key players in the “Family Court Reform” fields are coming from — and the role of academic journals in accomplishing where they’re going towards…. So I felt that a “guide” to the revisions was still needed — but (in hindsight) — saw immediately that that “guide” needed to be on a separate post.

What that part does (this explanation is a little longer..):

— It addresses what I discovered, added, and thought about, added section covers a March, 2022, article abstract at the Journal of Family Trauma, Child Custody and Child Development.

I’d just picked a recent article which had the word “parental alienation” for an example, looking closer turned up more evidence, so I included another alert (regarding a specific, activist guy) showing how endorsing “Coercive Control” is no hindrance whatsoever to simultaneously promoting AFCC’s favorite theory, “parental alienation.”^^ You’ll see it below on this post.

^^Be forewarned. Think about the significance, please: IF the real problem is “parental alienation” believed by judges, does the overall message from #FamilyCourtReformists handle that situation, and how would legislating against “Coercive Control” throughout the USA — which these reformists certainly are also promoting — handle that issue?

— It reviews how deliberate decisions to start and align a “protective parents/mothers” movement with the existing American domestic violence prevention organizations** ensures neither can openly reveal or talk about how healthy marriage/responsible fatherhood (“HMRF”) grants, the Access and Visitation Grants, relating to the Social Security Act interact with judicial membership organizations like AFCC (and NCJFCJ, and others) — to make sense of what’s taking place in the AFCC-run and in some states, AFCC-member lobbied for and created, family courts!

That reality alone should tell anyone paying attention## that the “protectIVE” mothers (parents, etc.) movement (sic) — and because of who’s now in the National Safe Parents Coalition (sic), featuring at least two of such organizations (one in Connecticut, brand new as of June, 2020, and run by an individual trained by the DV organization in the same state, the other, two decades old now, from California) — is less than appropriately really about protecting parents than protecting special interests.

##With the exception of the newest organizations (or, websites) (or “university centers”), I’ve been both a witness, and impacted by those who decided a “mothers movement” was called for — thus both preserving VAWA-funding without exposing “fatherhood funding” or the AFCC. Not too surprisingly, among those making this decision (I’ve documented year after year, and they’re still around), are, in my opinion, far too many men, and with them, the ideology that all can be fixed, and we need their consultancies and books more than we need the truth about the United States Congress’ role in rigging the family courts to faile — and in funding both sides of a gender war, covertly, while politicians — legislators — declare how concerned they are about violence and poverty, etc.

(“The short version:” **DV organizations, meaning privately controlled, tax-exempt, a.k.a “nonprofit “corporations, are ALL strategically coordinated and controlled, by their funding and even what they can and do say by their funding. Because the state-wide coalitions are main the pass-through source of revenues to their “members” (other organizations providing more front-line services, including the actual shelters); the statewide DV orgs focus on “technical assistance and training” (even “certifications”) and public advocacy, they not-so-indirectly affect how services are (or are not, when it comes to the family law system beyond initial restraining orders provided) delivered. I haven’t seen any such statewide coalition yet which is financially INdependent of government grants. I posted three sources of lists of them on my March 1 (March 26) updates.

These by law are both regulated as to how many recipients (one/each statewide) and regionalized (the Domestic Violence Resource Network, essentially) by Congress, under 1984 FVSPA, through U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. MEANWHILE, WELFARE REFORM PRWORA, major revision, 1996, with subsequent authorizations since 2006 including and maintaining $150M/year under #CFDA_93086 for the #HMRF — your basic family values, father-engagement policy, designed to be system-wide — and continued the $10M/year for the #CFDA_93597, Access Visitation, started 1988 in lesser size, but by 1996, that size.

I discuss BOTH on my Front Page… and have been talking about them throughout most of this blog. These two funding streams are, what’s more, only the tip of an iceberg or series of icebergs.

I had to move the Intro to March 26 Revisions of the Same promptly because it looked bad (formatting/font) and just messes with the already complex post. The quickest solution with a draft post already written, SHORT, and waiting for an excuse to be published, was to move it here, publish both together, today. Unlike the post these refer to, this one is short and sweet and not that hard to digest — which is more than I can say for the other one!

I think this quick preview is enough for you to distinguish between the “Four Reasons” and the “Intro to March 26 Revisions ” and won’t make a big deal about where one transitions into the other. I assume everyone reading this can count to four ….

Both parts [referenced in this title] are now here because 15,000 words was just too much at:

‘High-Conflict’ Court-Ordered Parenting Classes and Certified High-Conflict Divorce Coaching USA is Now on Steroids. Yet USA FamilyCourtReform* Collaborators Using This Jargon still expect to be taken seriously (and are, for example, by at least one UK/Europe-focused journal). [Begun Feb. 16, 2022, , Published March 1.]” (short-link ends “-dEA” and remember that’s case-sensitive after the “wp.me/” of all shortlinks for this blog (if posts, “p,” if Pages (rarer), “P”). http://wp.me/ps-BXH-“)

Why [that] post now?

[“Now,” see above long title, means starting mid-February, 2022].

Why again, now show, among other things, the connection of talking “High-conflict” continually (let alone “narcissistic” and extreme focus on personality disorders/psychology) to the (corrupt) AFCC enterprises?

I laid out four reasons with some comments for each:

1) It’s politically current.

See NationalSafeParents.org campaign. This post covers at least one of the original “founding” coalition members, so-called (the coalition seems to be a non-entity).

It’s important to understand which “side” the coalition is in fact, rooting for, which team it’s playing on, and I say, it’s not those kids or their protective parents.
While I don’t doubt there is some genuine empathy among the ranks, for it to so continually given truth — the WHOLE truth, and nothing BUT the truth on this field (and about those courts), I say these are not genuinely good people, and as such, not good leaders. Good leaders don’t routinely lie to their followers unless what’s being created is, ah, er, a bit different than what’s being advertised.

2) To illustrate the importance of basic paying attention and follow-through (For “NationalSafeParentsCoalition,” looking up the logos featured and who or what is behind each, taking a step back and assessing). Beyond that, by now we should know the key players and their organizational, networking/liaisons, language-jargon used, AND corporate filing behaviors in this field (this cluster of related fields, that is). Generally speaking, I do. Do you? If not, why not, yet?
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March 28, 2022 at 4:39 pm

Journals, Their Editors, Sponsors + Publishers | #FamilyCourtRvw: The Voice of AFCC w Help from Hofstra — Editorial Board and Access-Visitation Grants as I re-explained/posted May 21, 2018. [Repost with my March 21, 2022 Update**].

Some of my posts take weeks to decide what (how much), to post. This shows in the results. These look and sound over-worked because they are. They have the details and cover much ground but just don’t flow right, which adds to the aggravation of their having taken so long for me to write. They also tend to have more incomplete sentences, missing transition words.

My ROI in time and mental energy on that type of post is less because any such post will need major re-allocation, or at the least, editing of content (re-ordering paragraphs, etc.) after publishing.

This one didn’t. It comes straight from the heart, almost “as-is.” It was easy to write.

[Mildly edited March 23, 2022, to reflect that I did complete what (as originally posted) I’d promised to — remove the update commentary (rant) from the 2018 post this one links to, now that that commentary (rant) is here. While at it, I’m reviewing my grammar and removing unnecessary words within sentences or unnecessary sentences. Maybe not ALL of them, but enough to make a difference.]

My original inspiration was just to re-post links to an earlier concise but I believe well-stated post — it had just 5,000 words (with a few exhibits and at the bottom a color-coded table of the Family Court Review’s Editorial board of the time). Running across this older post, I quickly added an about 2,500 word update-rant-protest-FYI and “I Told You So!”

I then tweeted the 2018 one in that format but promised to move my update commentary to a new post. This post keeps my promise. Later, I also tweeted excerpts showing all of that post:

New posts need titles. Rather than just copy the other one, I’ve led with the reminder that academic journals have influence, and talked about that here, too.

The emphasis here isn’t on the links and supporting documentation, just on my speaking my mind in light of current developments (see my subtitle for which ones). I wanted it out in just one day with minimal cleanup needed after and met that goal.

Journals, Their Editors, Sponsors + Publishers | #FamilyCourtRvw: The Voice of AFCC w Help from Hofstra — Editorial Board and Access-Visitation Grants as I re-explained/posted May 21, 2018. [Repost with my March 21, 2022 Update**]. (short-link ends “-dXu”)

If I could have five-line titles (or post “subtitles” as some magazines do), this one would be: Why #FamilyCourtReformists (#NFVLCgwu #NSPC et al.) pushing #VAWA Reauthorization with #KaydensLaw Don’t/Won’t and Can’t Afford to expose AFCC]

Because that is indeed what is on my mind at the moment...

So now I have nearly 6,000 words here, including the tags you see next, from the 2018 post.

AFCC’s Family Court Review Editorial Board and Their Respective Affiliations. [Publ. May 21, 2018, with March 21, 2002, update for re-posting]. (generated case-sensitive shortlink ends “-92R”)

It may be helpful here to post the tags from my May, 2018 post, not this one, as active links:

If you’re going to click, I suggest pick the more unusual tags because, for example “AFCC” might just call up almost every post. Know that I also don’t tag consistently, that when I do, it’s usually more emphatic for that post and that the “Search” function will usually show more results — but with “Search” be sure to use specific, as unique as possible, and short search terms. This blog is not on the Dewey Decimal System, or like professional journals, with professional indexes or indexers and subscribers that may include both libraries and universities and other nonprofits which can afford to subscribe — its tags, where they exist, are what I can do with what I’ve got, and I do not write according to SEO guidelines: “not in my wheelhouse.”{

~ ~ ~Here they are.

Tagged with AFCC, AFCC Fam.Ct.Rvw Editorial Board listings, Barbara A. Babb (2015 Stanley Cohen Awardee), CFCCs (ntr for Families Children & Courts), CFDA 93086, CFDA 93597, Charlene Depner (1999 Stanley Cohen Awardee), Child-Inclusive Mediation, Fam.Ct.Rvw, Family Bridges, Family Bridges tm, Family Transitions Pty Ltd + Children Beyond Dispute (Jennifer McIntosh-Australia), FCR – Family Court Review (Editor in Chief Barbara A Babb (UMaryland SOL CFCC)|Social Science Editor Robt E Emery (UVA), FOIA-Freedom of Information Act applied, FreeGovInfo and Freedom of Press Foundation, Gloria Danziger, Grants to States for Access and Visitation Programs (“SAVP” per TAGGS), Hofstra University SOL & AFCC,J. Herbie DiFonzo + Mary E. O’Connell (2006 Stanley Cohen Awardee), Michael Saini PhD (AFCC) Canada, Peter Salem, Richard Warshak (AFCC), Robin Deutsch, St. George’s (Windsor Castle) + AFCC + “RELATE” Feb 2018 “Consultation”, UBaltimore School of Law CFCC, UN CRC (Convention on Rights of Children), Who’s subject to FOIA and who is not?, William James College & Saybrook University (Every single one of these tags may not be handled on this post, but if not, it’s included to call up related posts I decided should be mentioned). FOIA is. RELATE is, and many others, however. Also, because the post lists the AFCC Editorial Board — and many had affiliations with some of the institutions mentioned in these tags, those tags reference those institutions. (“SOL” above stands for “School of Law.”) //LGH 3/21/2022.

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ABOUT JOURNALS, GENERALLY: Besides straight law-school journals, any society (non-profit) generally around some professional expertise, it seems, if they can afford it and clear publisher guidelines, can have such publishers produce (make available on-line, with often many indexes they’d also be listed in) their own, and editor-in-chief / editorial board controlled Issues, Volumes of Issues, and articles (Table of Contents) within each issue — benefitting of course the various editorial boards (which can get long and large) whose members may then add every single time (should they choose) an article gets published onto their resumes or “c.v.’s”. (Why I know — I’ve read so many resumes!)

Typically journals aren’t just by ordinary people, but white-collar individuals with (often advanced) degrees already in some position of authority — but not always — at a university or within the courts, or (while not the majority, supplemented by) running their own private nonprofits, and/or contracting or consulting for the courts — which is to say — government operations.

Besides straight law schools and the “pay-to-play” specific journals, there are some which blend fields of expertise, i.e., they are “multi-disciplinary.”

AFCC’s FamilyCourtReview is unique with its focus and base within New York State, but there are also others published by the American Psychological Association, and some elsewhere as their own nonprofits which I’ll run across from time to time — seeking diligently and consistently to blend social science and the law (not that AFCC doesn’t also do this), psychology and the law, Social Science and Public Welfare, and “Socio-legal Scholarship” and a variety of similar names.

I call ’em (repeatedly) as I see ’em on this blog, which makes for some complex posts, but I do it because I do not approve of the “caste” system in place facilitated and expanded through such journals, particularly where a field’s roots are in some fields historically abusive to women, poorly represented from the start by women, and some of them, with roots in eugenics (which, FYI, sociology leadership has…), and in the context where women being historically excluded from voting, and even later, enrolling in the “East Coast Ivies” USA until the late 1960s-1970s, for God’s sake… one outlet women (sometimes without any child-rearing or marital experience of their own) were allowed into was professionalizing home economics, child-rearing, child care, and in short places where they could put mothers in their places as non-experts and not knowledgeable on how to raise their own children. These fields within universities were historically in centers run by men anyhow. I believe the 2018 post has some links to these —

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March 21, 2022 at 4:37 pm

Tagged with #NFVLCgwu, 'A republic -- If you can keep it' [1787 - 2020], 'To Admit or Not to Admit (I'm AFCC)?' - AFCC Academic + Advocacy Members' Dilemma (Answer: 'It depends' on context), AFCC Fam.Ct.Rvw Editorial Board listings, FCR - Family Court Review (Editor in Chief Barbara A Babb (UMaryland SOL CFCC)|Social Science Editor Robt E Emery (UVA), Global focus on VAWA obscures existence of HHS-backed Fatherhood.gov and 1996 Welfare Reform, LGH Post May 21 2018 on AFCC, VAWA Reauthorization - Kayden's Law 2022

Moms New To and Seeing Through #FamilyCourtReformists Rhetoric 2002-2022 Have Other Options.. [March 20, 2022].

Abbreviated Title: Moms New To … #FamilyCourtReformists Rhetoric 2002-2022, [You] Have Other Options.. [March 20, 2022]. (Case-sensitive short-link ends “-dVE.”

The previous post ends abruptly because I just moved about a third of it here. Points of reference from the previous post saying “below” may now be here instead. Please treat the overlap of subject matter as review or repetition — no harm in saying it again…

Posted ASAP because of its strong tone, especially towards the end. I start with a verbally colorful rant about who I mean by “Moms” and some “TABLE TALK” about why this blog may be a difficult read and why it is a difficult write. The determination to speak, or what to speak is the easy part; so is finding what to report by now also, but turning this into comprehensible essays while writing straight onto the blog is tough and often tedious.

The subject matter is personal to me because I also lived through the systems I report on, but I chose to investigate from a different perspective. When I didn’t follow the assigned script or continually cheer on those who did (and the thought-leaders involved), I quickly found my writing sidelined, ignored, rarely linked to, and NEVER acknowledged by the FamilyCourtReformists as even existing, let alone as legitimate. (Years of “statcounter” showed who in government and at universities was nevertheless watching this blog, including District Attorney’s Offices, universities (yes, those East Coast Ivies and more).

This shunning cost me social bonding and social-media referrals, but compared to what I lost (and it was a loss) in social/emotional bonding with others who also lived through this I have gained more in clearer insight to the system in motion and the system’s fiscal structure. That understanding was and still is worth much more than any cost in less social support and bonding. Taking a stand also helped me retain my conscience and self-respect and usefulness to others who can see through fake advocacy.

Full Post Title: Moms New To and Seeing Through #FamilyCourtReformists Rhetoric 2002-2022 Have Other Options.. [March 20, 2022]. (“-dVE”)

Text moved about 3,300 words, total 5,500. Concluding section from a March 7, then to March 19 post, now here. Intense dissatisfaction with the state of yesterday’s post led to this one.

Women in my situation shouldn’t be bonding indiscriminately long-term: there’s a duty of basic survival: to keep people in frequent contact with us, our support systems we engage in (on-line, phone) honest and maintain “iron-sharpens-iron.” Conflict pe se isn’t bad. Constant compromise is: there IS a war on, always, to gain or retain basic freedom, liberty and individual freedom of choice in life. There’s a duty to resist propaganda and make sure consent is really informed consent.

You will not find me presenting my findings as I see (most) journalists doing: dropping names, citing experts, and expansive reporting on individual cases in the middle of that hoping (and even saying) this is and should pass for “investigation” and research. It’s not: it’s journalism.

More journalism — especially of this type — is not what’s needed here. In its place, we need more average, regular individuals to understand that boilerplate articles (quoting experts, or copying existing campaigns, add in a custody case or two to personalize it) don’t qualify as investigation or research so they can discover what it does mean and engage in that. Investigation and research means LOOKING into the supporting schemes which must include the money and obtaining a basic understanding of the infrastructure — the flow of resources and finances.

Flow of information follows the resources. Pick some nonprofits or non-profit sponsored websites (I do — often) or consortia and see which major corporations are sponsoring them…

You can’t look into finances without exploring entities and the public/private sector and sooner or later arrive at an understanding of what taxation accomplishes — and what the largest (billion-dollar, hundred-million-dollar assets) — tax-exempt foundations corporations exist to do.**

**Not exactly what’s on the labels.

Name me any journalist currently reporting on the family courts, custody disasters, reform movements, domestic violence, or even AFCC. For any one doing that (I don’t see ONE), I can name probably five who are putting out, regularly, strung-together articles establishing themselves (and the names dropped in every article, often from the #FamilyCourtReformists lobby), not bedrock truths. They are publishing and being published regularly. I cannot do a review or critique for every single one. I talk about type so it can be recognized. Over time, I’ve done several (most recently, illuminating how a Forbes Woman had affiliations with an AFCC_drenched nonprofit registered (entity address at least) in New York State, called “Family Kind, Ltd.” Look it up!

Again, this post is:

Moms New To and Seeing Through #FamilyCourtReformists Rhetoric 2002-2022 Have Other Options.. [March 20, 2022].

(Case-sensitive short-link ends “-dVE.”
The two previous posts were published earlier in March:

@LetUsGetHonest Pinned Tweet (thread) with IRS Form 990 explanation and more, Moved Here [Mar. 7, 2022]. (short-link ends “-dNX”).

Moms New to #FamilyCourtReformists’ Lobby (Safe Child, Safe Parent, Broken Family Courts, Flawed Practices — and Please Welcome Our Nice, Empathetic, DV-Expert Men) Should Consider Their Script Carefully. [Mar. 19, 2022]. (case-sensitive short-link ends “-dQh”)

I’m not redefining which “Moms” I mean. Many know already because they’re in the middle of court cases or reeling and dealing from the consequences of the same. This message would go for anyone else (Dads, decent people, others reading that rhetoric over concern about the levels of criminality and violence being diverted into the family court systems, while others seek to radically alter the “punitive” parts of the criminal justice system — and those others entail major tax-exempt foundations willing to, and boasting about how they have already — run “systems change” pilots on entire states).

I do have some words to say about that Lobby and its tactics, which speak to its purposes. After that sound-off (which it is), several paragraphs long, look for some “Table Talk” (several paragraphs) which looks and starts like this:

TABLE TALK: There are some technical hurdles to my producing the quality writing and proofreading and copyediting with adequate cites (links, quotes, and where appropriate, images) I need to communicate concepts others are just not talking up enough in the fields this blog covers.

Table talk is essentially empathizing and acknowledging some challenges my readers may have comprehending this information… then again, start doing what I recommend doing, and lights should start turning on without all my explanations… Learning how to learn by doing… it’s work; it’s not a downhill slide without effort.

Below that is the transported exhortations from my March 19 (also brought in from the March 7) posts. Currently in all about 5,500 words. Not a tough read…

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March 20, 2022 at 12:40 pm

Moms New to #FamilyCourtReformists’ Lobby (Safe Child, Safe Parent, Broken Family Courts, Flawed Practices — and Please Welcome Our Nice, Empathetic, DV-Expert Men) Should Consider Their Script Carefully. [Mar. 19, 2022].

Title & short-link:

I just realized that “Their Script” may be unclear. “They/Their” refers to the Lobby, not to the Moms.. I don’t know that Moms need a script so much as to recognize the ones (we’ve) been fed. We need principles and tools to discover and report the truth in terms that speak not just to cause, but to entities running the drama and triangulation of opposites to get eventually, to a desired third-option, involving (clearly) public resources and more control over certain institutions through control of who trains the judges — not to mention the cash and influence-flow from more and more trainings further and further removed from public (that is, the people’s) over sight. //LGH March 20, 2022).

This post moves about half previous post, @LetUsGetHonest Pinned Tweet (thread) with IRS Form 990 explanation and more, Moved Here [Mar. 7, 2022]. (short-link ends “-dNX”), over here. It brings in the exhortations and develops that theme more than passing references there could.

With this re-distribution I hope readers will better understand the urgency behind my exhortation here and be more inclined to finish reading my March 7 post and be reminded about <>finding entity financials, the basic parts of an IRS Form 990 and <>the benefits of refusing to allow websites arranged to distract readers from identifying the entities and finding those financials to succeed in that distraction.

My other purpose in the prior post was to liberate the top of my Twitter account without losing that basic, summary information.

NOTICING: Individually, once a person starts noticing the frequency of such situations (websites) and the level of spin and sales on so many websites it will be that person’s new day for evaluating both existing government and “reform-government” advocacy networks. The evidence has been around — just not presented and tied in clearly to those websites and the public-relations messaging.

We fail to acknowledge HOW MUCH of public policy has been advertising. For this in many ways we have to thank (?) Freud. (And Freud’s nephew, of course…).

YES THERE IS A SCRIPT: There is a script, there is a stage, and there are curtains. Valuable information “behind the curtains” is not all off-limits to the public, not all inaccessible. It may not be in the same theater even, but it does exist. All that is necessary (first steps, in my opinion) is to stop being in “audience-only” mode, waiting to be entertained, moved, experience the emotions that theater exists to provoke, and start understanding that other participants in a production exist. And that analogy also applies to selling government policies and legislative reform.

The difference is, you can opt out of attending most theatre, or social media channels that don’t appeal or entertain — but you can NOT opt out of existing in the same place as governments — domestic, international, or (USA) State & local… We are on the same planet. We are mostly NOT food- clothing- transportation- and shelter- self-sufficient, off-grid and fully independent in developed countries whose taxes are taken to run ever more forms of social engineering projects upon us at our own expense, lest we organize better and become more: food, clothing, transportation and shelter-self-sufficient.

…or did you really thing “ending welfare as we once knew it” in 1996 was about more individual self-sufficiency than shifting federal resources into private hands for the “Federal Designer-Family” routine and some very cruel ways of population control?

So why not take a closer look, then talk it up?

PARTS (SECTIONS) OF THIS POST:

An extended insert on the historic background of “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy” came up when I found the ABA Commission on Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence bailing on providing active links for mis-led “Survivor/Victims” who might be expecting some direct help, or referrals to where to find some, by omitting active links from its list — while, elsewhere on the site directing its readers (mostly lawyer members, presumably) to a website (blatantly) promoting StrengthAtHome.org (trainings and certifications for handling PTSD, especially but not only for Military and Veterans, and as a way to reduce (their) “Intimate Partner Violence”), run by a (career psychologist) Casey (Tyler) Taft.

The fine print on what StrengthAtHome and Dr. Taft have been doing shows it, besides running a standard “train, certify, distribute” business model typical of psychologists, a particular brand of “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy” developed by (“go figure”) not himself, but a woman, Dr. Patricia Resick. (For both Taft and Resick, “Dr.”means a doctorate (Ph.D.) in psychology, not medicine).

All this is relevant when so much public resources are dedicated to running these programs, and the career curves of people (such as Taft) backed by federal (and some private) grants. For example: regarding Resick:

Dr Resick’s research has been continuously funded for 40 years. She has published over 300 articles and chapters and ten books on PTSD.

“About Dr. Casey Taft,” from StrengthAtHome (which I reached via the ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence):

Casey Tyler Taft, Ph.D. (2001), StrengthAtHome.org (IPV/DV Prevention and Treatment, esp. for the military and vets) for March, 2022 post).

Casey T. Taft, Ph.D., is a staff psychologist at the National Center for PTSD in the VA Boston Healthcare System, and Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Taft has served as Principal Investigator on funded grants focusing on understanding and preventing partner violence through the National Institute of Mental Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Centers for Disease Control, the Department of Defense,* the Blue Shield Foundation of California, the Bob Woodruff Foundation, and the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation.** He was the primary developer of the Strength at Home programs to prevent IPV, with current grants to implement the program within civilian, military, and Veteran settings.

Prior to this, he was coordinator of an abuser intervention program in an inner city civilian setting.

Dr. Taft is on the Editorial Boards of five journals and has published over 100 peer-reviewed academic articles.

* Using acronyms for parts of the U.S. federal government cited just there: NIMH, DVA, CDC and DOD. ** Three foundations are mentioned; of the two ones regarding Health” (Blue Shield of California — yet his work is in Boston) at least one I know is huge. The Bob Woodruff Foundation I see is focused on serving the military (but haven’t looked its financials up yet).

The Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, its website shows, is also huge and only formed in 2018:

The Mother Cabrini Health Foundation is one of the largest foundations in the United States and the largest foundation focused exclusively on New York State.

The Foundation originated from the 2018 sale of Fidelis Care, a nonprofit health insurer, inspired by the bishops of the Catholic diocese to increase healthcare access for New York’s poor. …Amid rising costs complicating the delivery of care, the Board decided to sell Fidelis to a better capitalized and technologically advanced private insurer.

The transaction, which was approved by New York State regulators in 2018 following rigorous governmental review and extensive public input, resulted in the creation of the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, a new charitable foundation organized under the New York Not-for-Profit Corporation Law.

Inaugural grants round

The Foundation’s inaugural round of grants at year-end 2019 delivered $150 million to more than 500 nonprofit organizations, programs, and initiatives serving low-income and underserved populations across New York. This included $57 million toward general services for low-income individuals and families; $18 million toward programming, nursing, and caregiving services for older adults; $18 million toward housing and services for persons with special needs; $10 million toward initiatives for immigrants and refugees; $3 million toward support services for veterans; and so much more.

Beyond the three private nonprofits, the various federal grants supporting StrengthAtHome programming, there’s also the grants supporting just this one young man’s (judging by the photo and his c.v.) career before he developed a program to be public/private funded and intended, actually, for all populations while initially focused on the military and vets: Click for Dr. Taft’s curriculum vitae (note — in document, not pdf format, may affect line breaks)..

He’s 1994, 1997, 2001 degrees (straight through: psychology (SUNY-Albany, New York), clinical psychology M.A. (U-Maryland, Baltimore County), doctorate in clinical psychology (Baltimore), by 2002 involved in the VA Healthcare, and hasn’t veered course since. Some of his post-graduate grants have been huge, and he seems to be still a young man (see nearby photo, and judging by his college degree dates)

ACADEMIC TRAINING:

1994 B.A. Psychology, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY
2000 M.A. Clinical Psychology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
2001 Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
2002 Clinical Internship, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (APA Accredited), Durham, NC

Written by Let's Get Honest|She Looks It Up

March 19, 2022 at 4:07 pm

@LetUsGetHonest Pinned Tweet (thread) with IRS Form 990 explanation and more, Moved Here [Mar. 7, 2022].

This post saves information and a few links from my Twitter account’s Pinned Tweet, so I can unpin it without losing that quick summary. It’s a short thread, not just one tweet, pinned since {5:33 PM* Jun 25, 2021} (*PST). It lists some basic principles I follow and basic facts (patterns) to be aware of when investigating and evaluating any website, cause, campaign, or advocacy nonprofit associated with the same. My unpinned thread has a few images (screenshots I uploaded at the time, some of them annotated) to illustrate one or another statement on the corresponding Tweet.

This Post’s Title and short-link:

@LetUsGetHonest Pinned Tweet (thread) with IRS Form 990 explanation and more, Moved Here [Mar. 7, 2022]. (short-link ends “-dNX”). As revised 3/19/2022, about 7,100 words..

This post underwent some wax and wane after publishing, mostly of material I was exposed to and was processing mentally and emotionally while writing it. I first expanded (built onto) then moved most of the expansion (dismantled it here) to a new post I am about to publish it today (March 19, 2022). More details and development of the preview ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence (“ABA-CDSV”) section (in this color scheme, fine print with one large image) is now at the new location.

The other expanded sections were my exhortation to mothers to take back ownership of their stories, and some dignity with it, (if that shoe fits) from those who are, currently, exploiting it for a private agenda, but talking “We, Us, Our” as if all were on the same page.

I exhort us all (but especially embattled mothers who’ve already stood up to domestic violence, or stood up for their children in ways the family courts refused to) to start understanding the consequences of a centrally coordinated “DVRN” representing millions of dollars to nonprofits, strategically omitting the family courts — leaving that field open for (should the public catch on too fast) the “protective parents” groups to team up with existing “domestic violence prevention” coalitions, etc., in combination with lawyers, psychologists, and law and psych professors (i.e, mentors) — “Let’s All Fix This Problem Together and Cry Out to (inter)nationalize “Our” Concept of where the problem lies”).

Where people miss it is understanding just how that the thought-leaders’ functional meaning of the word “our” is not the common usage. In-practice isn’t what you may assume (and we’re supposed to assume) it represent … as if protective mothers with custody cases and the spokes-persons featuring their publicity (headlines) to promote a certain agenda, were indeed all on the same page… The “Exhibit A” women are not — from the inner circle cluster of speakers, conferencers, and court- OR university (law school)-connected professionals — being given, up front (judging by what the public is fed year after year from the same sources) the full range of choices to analyze problems. Built-in unproved assumptions are routine; denial and derailment of other interpretations is standard.

How to tell the difference? Understand who’s been speaking and is speaking, where available to identify, by entity, by category and by what’s NOT being said (year after year) regarding the exact same situations, and ask “why isn’t it?”

More at the next post: its title should be self-explanatory. I will publish this by day-end March 19:

Moms New to #FamilyCourtReformists’ Lobby (Safe Child, Safe Parent, Broken Family Courts, Flawed Practices — and Please Welcome Our Nice, Empathetic, DV-Expert Men) Should Consider Their Script Carefully. [Mar. 11, 2022]. (case-sensitive short-link ends “-dQh”)

Next section: about where, +/- March 7, 2022, I needed to take another time-out because of this content and more, further down on the same website. I had already been looking into and at the ABA Centers (ABA Center on Children and the Law, here, a different ABA Center). These “Centers” the ABA calls “entities” however, they aren’t quite that in normal usage. they are ABA “groups.”

ABA here means “American Bar Association.”

I just found the “ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence “ABA-CDSV”) website link for “seek Technical Assistance” making sure to screen out “Victims/Survivors” by reminding them — that’s NOT what the ABA does —

Commission Members and Staff include national experts in many areas of domestic and sexual violence and the law. The American Bar Association sponsors a number of programs to improve the justice system, but is not able to help people with specific legal problems or cases. The Association is not able to refer you to an attorney. (in bright red):

PLEASE DO NOT SEND REQUESTS FOR LEGAL HELP TO US.

and providing at least a few categories of places to go seek help…in a small box and as if these were actual links.

I posted the ABA CDSV image below March 7-19, but just now moved that image and surrounding sections (my comments on it) to a new post (to be published March 19, 2022, today). The more narrative/expressive sections of this post were more appropriate to a new one. In moving I of course added some related entity drill-downs for more background information… //LGH.

Survivors seeking information may wish to consult the following:

National Domestic Violence Hotline
Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (that’s an organization: RAINN)
ABA Consumers’ Guide to Legal Help
LawHelp.org
Womenslaw.org
State Bar Associations
State Domestic Violence Coalitions
State Sexual Assault Coalitions

This same ABA COMMISSION on DOMESTIC & Sexual Violence didn’t have the decency to even provide a few active links to ANY of those above resources for non-lawyers or those wanting anything other than technical help.

But at the bottom of its page, a big banner advertises Evidence-based, relationship Conflict Prevention, linking to “StrengthAtHome.org” (more curricula provided by a clinical psychologist (B.A., 1994) Casey Taft, Ph.D., clearly working in the military (i.e., Veteran PTSD), Cognitive-Behavioral Health, and Trauma-Informed fields. His 46-page resume** is filled with grants credits, presentations, and (well over a dozen) PhD students he’s mentored — presumably some of these helping write the dozens of articles or book chapters (he has just one book to date), and apart from some ‘societies’ I’m aware of, he’s at the UN Consultation Level, on FIVE journals, a peer-reviewer for grants (that must be handy) and I even saw at least one reference to the IVAT I just blogged (again) last week.

(**downloaded as a document, not a pdf, so some pagination issues might account for the length — but not that many…)

Trauma-Informed is BIG government business; I guess ongoing wars help make it necessary and an endless supply of subject matter for “randomized controlled trials” (on people), for “aggression intervention”

“What about following financials where there aren’t any, really?” except maybe a Crowdfunder?

Another category of websites aren’t those representing (or saying they represent) a specific advocacy group, i.e., business (tax-exempt or not) but personal blogs with posts and “resources” or featuring posts by (family court reform, in this context) references. That type of blogging is also a powerful tool, even blogs on free domains — a tool for truth, a tool for expression, an appeal regarding personal stories; and a tool for echoing messages others may have processed, but the bloggers (apparently) haven’t.

Free blog domain — that’s how I started. This domain name (FamilyCourtMatters) wasn’t upgraded until 2018 and even now isn’t exactly a sponsored website. I just pay once annually, not much, for the privilege of calling it “familycourtmatters.org” rather than “FamilyCourtMatters.Wordpress.com” and a few perks. I have a “Donate” button (rarely used: if I’d formed a nonprofit, perhaps that might be different. I don’t offer tax-deduction privileges to anyone who contributes…). It’s not a collaborative blog — I am the only author, admin, and moderator — for a reason: to protect the message and avoid compromising it.

“What about following financials where there aren’t any, really?” How sort through who’s who?

It’s not too hard to see who’s promoting which “Dear Friends/Our Friends” experts and referring to a close-knit cluster of organizations with an agenda which specifically discourages “following the money” or non-collaborative free speech among the ranks.

Through participating on Twitter, or alerts from people I know from:

<>my own awareness of domestic violence organizations as tax-exempt entities who must (and sometimes even DO) file tax returns, secretary of state registrations and/or charitable registrations in some states and

<>personal awareness of group-email, forums or other ways protective mothers communicate without actually going into the business of advocacy.

<>awareness of who clusters around such mothers, or their now-adult children, typically, where these seemingly open conversations are more guided than they may seem. It’s a form of bonding but not always the best form of prioritizing approaches. I’ve been both exposed to it and had to later report it as a subtle form of coercion/driving an agenda and deterring constructive criticism for the sake of “unity.”

More informal blogs relating a personal, or a relative/friend’s family court disaster (with media uploads if covered in the news) often promoting other websites or advocates — and the array of choices on those blogs usually shows how the the blogger’s response to their own courtroom drama unfurled.

Informal blogs often relate specific case histories; some are named after a child and requesting (another) law be passed named after that child (unfortunately, still far too many!) patterns of points of reference will surface over time. Sometimes the blogger is also active on other media. Right now the only other platform I’m active on is Twitter; that is often where I may here of some new, unfamiliar blog or nonprofit.

When I encounter new ones, as happens, I am going to notice, even where I may not know that state’s family court culture or judges, or that person, who they are deferring to and giving free referrals to: certain movements were set in place decades ago and aren’t too hard to differentiate IF you have some sound basis (criteria) of comparison. It really doesn’t take me long to see.

See my next post if you don’t yet. It’s taken this long to decide how much to say, and to digest what I was reading (new information) as it relates to things already known.

My next post begins by addressing the ABA-CDSV brush-off above, noticing where that ABA Commission does direct its viewers (more “behavioral health” experts running IPV Cognitive Processing Therapy through Boston VA (Veterans Affairs) Healthcare. Basically, the American Bar Association deferring to the American Psychological Association, with all kinds of subsidiary societies developed (this strand, deciding Freud/psychoanalysis wasn’t the answer — but maybe Pavlov, B.F. Skinner, and other propagators of their “randomized clinical trials” practices — on animals, infants, and/or humans — is the answer to aggression, PTSD, and “stopping violence against women” I suppose, also…. Career curves (and Dr. Casey Taft, above, is still a young-ish man, just got his first Ph.D. in 2001, and has been throughout his career supported by government grants, at public universities, and for this “StrengthAtHome.org” curricula)..

Moms New to #FamilyCourtReformists’ Lobby (Safe Child, Safe Parent, Broken Family Courts, Flawed Practices — and Please Welcome Our Nice, Empathetic, DV-Expert Men) Should Consider Their Script Carefully. [Mar. 11, 2022]. (case-sensitive short-link ends “-dQh”)

Following through on these basic principles often helps me decide what to support (or not) regarding the family courts and what to seek to do (or not) about them, and — the most practical part, combined with my gut instinct — when to engage or dis-engage in some conversation on what to do about them.

Sometimes my “gut instinct” is just a minor, unanswered question or stone I’d left unturned and felt I should take a look what was under it in a given interaction. My decision-making isn’t all “brainiac” or some mechanical automaton response. It is a discipline I choose, which I’m conscious of. I have made it a practice to look certain places before I get too far (or too intense) into any on-line interactions. Curiosity also plays a major role. I stay curious because I still think “activist” on these matters. No plans to shut up or go away on them.

There are many — countless — interactions for anyone who stays active on-line with a view to changing the status quo and connecting with others who also want to. Maximizing good use of time, emotional and mental energy, and making (every day!) as many decisions as possible sound decisions helps. It helps with confidence and seems to increase stamina. Sometimes it is the one area where we have some choice and some say: what to do with our own minds, and (where there is any time available) where to invest our time and our thoughts.

We who’ve been through these courts hoping to exit abuse, to get to freedom, but who found the gates closed time and again — or open to us but “without your kids” — always have urgency. SOME clock is always ticking. I like to reach out to people crossing those bridges after me. I like to engage, but I do not like to waste my time.

Wasting our time by withholding information and substituting information of far less relevance,** as so many advocacy groups have become expert at doing (see below), only delays real change, real help and kicks the can down the road another generation — where it will be even more damaged. As time goes on, these (corrupt) systems absorb more and more people — creating those invested in protecting them — to fix things and to supervise the fixers, train the trainers, and disseminate the curricula.

**So many posts on this (see the phrase) are scattered across the last five years (minimum) of this blog, I’m not even going to list the last few here. The issue comes up repeatedly. I may dedicate a post, or address it in parts of another post on some different topic.

Reduce time waste by vetting organizations and getting information outside that shown on the websites and in select circles. My Twitter thread began showing a guide to reading a tax return! Reading tax returns is a basic skill transferable to any cause, and to life; it’s not psychobabble, and hypothesis: it’s a vocabulary and concepts to go with it. For the United States, IRS Tax Returns are mandatory unless some entity is exempt from filing (many are, such as churches, synagogues).

When required for tax-exempt organizations they are also required annually and if not filed three years in a row for tax-exempt organizations can be automatically revoked. So if the website is still up and soliciting, others are still endorsing and promoting a certain nonprofit — but the IRS shows (and call their 800# to verify after checking their lists) which has been revoked and not reinstated, or is so small it only files Forms 990-N (revenues under $50,000), you know that a discrepancy between a website and the reality exists.

How many tax returns have I posted on this blog, over the years?…. Some are continuing organizations active all over the fields I blog and we deal with nationally, every day — because families, households, lives, and laws are affected. Differentiating between large and small and many more qualities, matters.

Each one tells something about an organization and many tell about who else that entity is dealing with, or granting to, or that somethings not shown on the website, is seriously amiss on the filings. That should and does lead to more questions — and seeking the answers is a great way to learn.

[BLOG REVISIONs: Several paragraphs here when published March 7 have been moved to the bottom my next post, due for publication today, March 19, 2022. Now IT is about 8,000 words, instead of this one…]

My blog and my Tweeting emphasizes setting a basic groundwork (which this pinned Tweet points to) as a common ground, rather than being herded into competing cults, flocks or market niches by eager mentors and overseers.

In the long term, I’ve found that the sooner in any encounter (on-line) I do certain basic checks — even if it’s pretty evident from a website or an individual’s comments, where they’re coming from — the better and that the longer I wait to do them, generally, the more I regretted wasting my time, afterwards.

I know the top image of a “Guide to IRS Form 990” with its table of contents was hardly a sexy, engaging image, but I put it there to make a point, including what parts of our brain we should engage in this field. (link: https://t.co/uoDYOKiAVS) Of course I also hoped people would click and read if the form is unfamiliar, but I wasn’t holding my breath to see who would.

This Post Re-allocates my “Formerly-Pinned Tweet.” in both link and text forms.

The short thread is a good, basic reminder, but I just got tired of looking at it. I want it out of the way for now, but not to lose its statement entirely. I’ve delivered it in two forms: first, text only, and second, as-is (embedded link to the thread). I may include (if I can find them!) separate uploads of some of the images with the text version.

That thread still remains on Twitter — just not pinned to my account profile near the top. It’d be hard to find unpinned, so I’m posting it here and will (try to) add a reference link there.. I add as usual some comments above and below.

This thread is not a radical, earth-shaking set of information: it’s just really basic to what I’m doing on both platforms. It will radically alter^^ anyone’s viewpoints who begins to understand and apply this to the subject matter of “family courts’ domestic/family violence and reforming any of the above.

^^Except perhaps for a (very!) few women** over the years who have already done and written up (you can’t really “get” it without major attempts to write it up) some deep dives on these financials. Most do not continue it this long and with this level of detail, as free-access blogs, and pulling together as many types of information on it. (You know who you are!). To do this, we cannot be hanging continually with people just unwilling to put in the time, or without the emotional strength to stand apart from a perceived crowd going in a different (strategy for reforming those courts) direction.

(**Men of this character and track record may exist outside my social or on-line circles, but I’ve yet to meet a man willing to explore both the fatherhood and the domestic violence grants series; men don’t seem to come with that willingness or neutrality. I should qualify: men or fathers with their own cases (custody, divorce, child support, domestic violence accusations, or being subject to it themselves, i.e., battered men. I have been in touch over the years with several trailing around this movement (journalists, lawyers, and at least one embattled father. Some have since died (old age or illness). None wanted to or that I can see took on how the federal grants USA connect to the nonprofits, or the organization “AFCC” in its economic niche (as networked with grantees).

Beyond this I also blog the university centers to promote worldviews A, B, or C in gender, child abuse, fatherhood, domestic violence (etc.) matters. … early child hood education, you name it. I’ve also looked into who owns the media.

I found this approach (follow the financials, understand some of how others typically hide them, or try to), use that as a standard of measurement, etc.) life-altering in how to view my own experiences and place in society, the world/this country, and in history

Time was then and still is marching on — I’m getting older!

The years of marital violence, the process of getting legal intervention (pro bono), restraining order, family court (fiascoes), trying to prevent “parental” (father’s) kidnapping — failing to do so for lack of comprehending how these things worked — dealing with the aftermath of all that (destruction of work life and social supports) were bad enough, but the self-proclaimed advocacy groups, “thought-leaders” and protective parents (labeling) “coalitions” around “fixing the family courts” to this day still collude to withhold from the public, and especially their own followers and supporters (whose stories are needed to justify and “legitimize” the campaigns) key elements of WHY this was happening: such as, the federal financial incentives spread from top-down to local grantees, and the private judicial organizations managing “coordinated community responses” to domestic violence, the nature of these specialty courts in the first place).

This is not just a passive withholding “(we just didn’t get around to it, sorry, folks.”) but also active where silencing and “excommunicating” anyone whose “story line” differs (and differs typically from our having understood the impact of federally-paid bribes, the infrastructures that enable loopholes in cashflow accountability, and such things).. They will not link, retweet, talk about, refer, or even argue (as if talking to equals, which we are, as human beings and, in this case, United States citizens) against the contrary point of view.

I have come to understand that my, and other dissident mother “family court gauntlet” and “domestic violence” survivors, whose children were directly or indirectly harmed from having to witness this, and the courts’ “take-down” of their decent, law-biding parent in favor of one who clearly doesn’t respect the law, point of view, while innocent, and legitimate (i.e., we live here, demand financial accountability for federal funds, seek to protect basic government jurisdiction, opposed centralized control of all policies by specific classes and castes of individuals — often already taking government grants directly or indirectly (i.e., through tax-exempt entities, or even within public or private (operating, guess what, also tax-exempt) universities or colleges — must be a real Achilles heel to what I deduce is not a legitimate agenda. ##

If there is another explanation for this “exclusionary” behavior, arrogant and self-important to the max (posing as humble and concerned), often by women, I’d like to read about it.

Do YOU have one? Can YOU dismantle any of the argumentation I’ve posted on this blog across a dozen years, or tell me that what I’ve reported either (1) doesn’t and didn’t exist, or (2) “Maybe” existed, but just didn’t matter?

If this argument can’t be dismantled through logic or proving it to be either false OR irrelevant (or best, both), then why not deal with it other than in cult-like behavior: pretense (in public) it doesn’t exist and hope it won’t dismantle one’s followers and supporters?

So I’ll describe two approaches (again) and why though I could headline with the first, I’ll reference the first, but lead with the second — and believe that if enough others also considered that option, we might have a justice system instead of being led by coalitions of hypocrites constantly feeding only phrases (‘fixing the family courts, safe parents IN the family courts, protecting kids IN the “custody courts” and more trainings for all involved… and more and more behavioral interventions for “bad” parents. “Pass more laws to order more trainings — we’ll do the trainings…” and so forth..

One is approach (perspective) heavily experiential — but the other way turns the lights on cognitively, as to both the broader the context and more documented, mostly accessible details and in a non-anecdotal, non-hearsay, relevant, and harder-to-challenge way. The second way is more solid, but my experience definitely fuels the motive to promote this approach, especially for these specific matters and causes.

~ ~ ~

## In our case/my experience, post-DV protection order, which was first quickly diluted and then became unrenewable. I needed that renewal to continue supporting my household, with children… After restraining order was expired, and attempts to renew it (twice) failed, I had to deal with the situation as it was — weekly interactions, mid-week interruptions, and at any time, harassment and interference, stalking (and combined with as much “controlling” behavior — ALMOST — as when we lived together — word quickly spread to my clients and rebuilt social support networks (mostly through those clients: I was working in my profession as a classically trained pianist/accompanist/ vocal coach, choir director & private teacher. In other words, not a nine to five job… more flexible for parenting, but it involved working parts of weekends) that I was under attack and on any given weekend might (and likely would) be either recently traumatized, having to go to court and prepare for it, or having just had to call the police for safety, or up to a certain date) get my children back from a court-ordered visitation with their unrepentant about it batterer/abusive father, etc.

After a certain year, through the triumph of child-stealing over law enforcement willingness to stop it (as it was occurring..), it was established to all involved (him, me, officers, judges, and friends, clients at the time, and bystanders, and my own family line, who had (it turned out later) a close financial interest in that custody-switch and dscrediting me as a person, and of course a mother AND TO OUR CHILDREN), that in no way would those counties (whether district attorney, family courts, or law officers — or the variety of nonprofits) do anything to prevent or undo (correct):

stalking, harassment, or for the children’s sake, to help my “ex,” just one man, their father, gain (“regain” didn’t apply for how little existed to start with) some respect for the law and for existing court orders, after all he’d just gotten away with or, apparently, enough self-respedt to get serious about finding regular employment. At the time I innocently believed that the child support agency would do its job and that like me, IT too understood the benefit to society (and our kids, and my safety) of having a father working steadily, rather than being free to hauntme while and where I was, in fact working, month in, month out (etc).

All that is long past. It’s a common experience (too common), but understanding from the economic perspective how that very commonality is then used to avoid solving the most basic problems to me was radically life-altering. : low-hanging fruit for involved professionals (courtesy the US Federal government Welfare Reform, etc., and other sources for “violence prevention” (sic), and that I could, as a single human being, investigate the powerful forces at work by just looking up entities and following their financials.

SOME more of course was involved (see this blog for examples!), but for me that was a key turning point from “telling my story” to empathetic ears, to doing my own research and reporting that instead. Unfortunately over many years, I also had to report others supposedly on protective parents (mothers’) and our children’s sides, and acting in their best interests (I’m not talking here, the courts, but a few nonprofits, related professionals who’ve become adept at getting quoted in press soon after any headline — in fact, these not only report, but literally track down, contact, and recruit traumatized mothers to join the cause, offering (basically, false) hope to fix the system.

I am still reporting on the same; my basis for reporting isn’t so much on the morality of these groups, but how following the connections between nonprofits (and of course looking up their financials) puts a clearer light on the “shine-the-light” act. To do ths requires a personal change of priorities. This hasn’t been fun but it has been empowering and has been a powerful antidote to ignorance dressed up as intelligence. (Truth is like that).

So this formerly “pinned” Twitter thread by making an overt, clear reference to an IRS Form 990 (2020 guide to its parts) and (my thread, not the guide) talking about tricks used to deflect and avoid showing where those “independently audited financial statements” may be on a given organization website is still radical. It’s not the whole story, but it’s a pretty good signpost!

Truth Fuels Flight, Lies Ensnare. Don’t Hang With, Serve (or Donate to) Tricksters or Their Targets. It’s a New Year — but there is STILL no excuse for abuse.

Twitter Housekeeping (Working on my Account Profile):

If I had better technical skills (or time to acquire them between investigative blogging — that is investigating, and blogging — and recently getting too absorbed on Twitter, responding to current events (in the Family Court Reform fields of course), I by now might have also filled in the blanks on my home page with an image (that image would contain key words). I think about it daily, though; it’s a matter of lining up what’s required and then choosing my favorite no doubt sarcastic phrases to jerk the consciences awake. Mathematically, I don’t expect that would make enough difference to turn the tide of sponsored inane sales pitches on policy reforms, but it’ll make me happy and maybe help a few souls, ideally younger ones, figure just a few more things out. It would also for me just represent a slightly improved output. Right now you can see that home Twitter page is incomplete without a background image or photo.

On both this blog (well, my WordPress blogs) and Twitter:

The New Year’s BlueJay Gravatar, much as I like the photo on its own and as a personal symbol, needs to go one of these days also… I love its connotations, but something a little stronger for these times, I think… I’d say Wolverine, but that’s a state animal. Maybe a short motto in some badge could be condensed to that little circle.

NEXT: Just the text, slightly expanded:

I expanded some abbreviations made to meet Tweet character limits. I only expanded “FS,” once: it stands for means “financial statements,” and for this blog I mean AUDITED financial statements, whether talking about governments or businesses. Such statements should show balances from the start of the filing entity, should also tell (in Note 1 to any such statements) what the filing entities, plural, are, if they read “consolidated” and more.

A link to the actual Twitter thread (with attached media, some of which are my annotated images) is further below. Horizontal lines separate one Tweet from the next in this text-only version:

~~>>irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i9 Parts (I through XII) & Schedules IRS #Forms990 elements, filing standards, glossary for tax-exempts who must file. Some file #Forms990_PF some do note have to file, some do not or barely, belatedly, comply. My Tweets and [blog] posts often feature charity or private foundation [990PF] filings.

One pattern I’ve noticed repeatedly is that some of the seemingly most-transparent organizations, who do in fact post audited financial statements (the private entity version of gov’t #CAFRs, wh/ we should also become familiar with as citizens), can still: =

/bury them in odd places on a website, like NOT under a menu or link “Financials.”
/post just one year’s worth/mislabel the fiscal year (FYE =/= FY). (Fiscal Year ENDING for Fiscal Year)
/ensure that the Audited F[inancial] S[tatement] links aren’t near the Form 990 links (so easy to put parallel)

/post both AuditedFS & #Forms990, but FS (Note1 should always define) &/or Form990 Schedule R,Part II (“related tax-exempt entities) reveals not all 990s posted.

Verbal clues “Consolidated FS for __” | “__& Affiliates.”

On closer look too much so-called philanthropy =Smoke&Mirrors [this Tweet has images]

Never let elegant,entertaining visuals, logos, hashtags (ex: #keepChildrenSafe) SalesPitches distract from the habit of translating what’s SAID into what’s DONE by WHOM, in business entity & cashflow terms. Those so passionate for system transformation, equity, & latest UN SDGs don’t**

I picked some examples of recent interest, but the same could be said equally of the “faith-based-organization” “familyValues” contingent who believe we should ALL fund specific religious values (new-age or otherwise), AND the war [between] both, via income tax & fees-for-services USA.

5:37 PM · Jun 25, 202

[UN SDGs = UN Sustainable Development Goals. The Twitter thread has an image making clear that reference: There are 17. “Justice” is next to last…

** (i.e., “[such people]….don’t let elegant, entertaining visuals, logos, hashtags, [and] Sales Pitches distract (them) from the habit of translating what’s SAID into what’s DONE by WHOM, in business entity and cashflow terms. — so why should we?”

All of those entertaining, elegant, things — with Sales Pitches — (I should’ve added “engaging” (interactive websites respond to clicks for more information, or another image in a slideshow — or the images load automatically) combined with sales pitches — are there to distract viewers and readers while the system transformers are busy doing other things, like making more professional connections, running trainings, publishing results, and applying for more government contracts and/or grants (etc.).

These things seem, the overall message seems, aimed at consumers and voters, to reassure us (all) something is being done:

“help is on the way” or, case in point for this subject matter, “Reform — your saviors — are on the way / The Calvary is coming/wait for your Knights In Shining Armor to punch a few holes in the “Bad guys/bad theories/ignorant- untrained judges” (The Heroes: multi-disciplinary professionals with expertise in the family courts, child abuse, domestic violence, and handling abusive men (etc.).

(continued below on Footnote “Don’t Let Elegant Entertaining and Engaging Visuals Distract You — These people don’t!”

Because I have more to say on it…

~ ~ ~Meanwhile, keep going about your business, reproducing, and producing those tax receipts (main source of government revenues) but don’t ask too many questions about how to find out where they are going, or where you might find out such things…

(I know, I know — that sarcasm keeps coming out. I still say it’s appropriate to the circumstances!)

[SEVERAL PARAGRAPHS, including re: WINGSforJustice.com and its Lundy Bancroft connections, just removed. It’s what was on my mind above, but needs to be its own post. There is no lack of background information on this situation; after leaving it up about two weeks here, I decided to take it off and present it more systematically next time…//LGH March 19, 2022]

Here’s my (soon-to-be) formerly pinned post. Click to see the thread, text content below the images. Several images also have media attachments which are part of the message here. This thread was probably composed to be pinned (not written and then chosen to pin), as you can see, in June, 2021 — not that long ago (as of today)…

Besides locating (AND actually reading: practice helps) Forms990 or 990PF for entities who must file these, orgs wh/ must ALSO complete ->audited financial statemts<- annually should be sought & read.

I DNK audited FS exemptn standards,but we shld demand these from change-agents pic.twitter.com/LOWkrYBlJF

— SheLooksItUp: AbsolutelyUncommonAnalysis DV FamCts (@LetUsGetHonest) June 25, 2021

One of the “2 replies” is me — and it’s got four posts with media attached. Just a short statement of exhortation and observation.

“Footnote “Don’t Let Elegant Entertaining and Engaging Visuals Distract You — These people don’t!” (i.e., “[such people]….don’t let elegant, entertaining visuals, logos, hashtags, [and] Sales Pitches distract (them) from the habit of translating what’s SAID into what’s DONE by WHOM, in business entity and cashflow terms. — so why should we?….

And their long-suffering, traumatized but consistently telling their stories “protective mothers” “protective parents” and “aged-out” (turned adult) “courageous kids” (<~~that part definitely applies!):

Thanks for your being our Message’s passionate underscore — for your supporting role as Survivors Exhibits (at conferences, live or virtual, nationwide (we, the USA collaborating experts, will handle reporting to other countries), without asking too many question, or developing relations with any of those not-so-forthcoming, not so malleable dissident Moms who disagree with our (collectivist) strategy

of charging windmills, attacking paper tigers [1], dramatically (while you’re watching) boxing the air (<~atheist alert: that’s a Bible quote, 1 Corinthians 9:6-7, and the apostle Paul saying that’s what he did NOT do, run “uncertainly” or fight as one boxing air), with volumes of media and academic journal articles and perpetual references to them …

15 Logical Fallacies to Know from “BestSchools.org” for my March 7, 2022 post (short-link ends -dNX) (removing Pinned Tweet to a post)

[1] I’ve probably used the term “paper tigers” wrongly there. I meant concealing the real operators involved. For reference, here’s a website listing 15 common logical fallacies. Typing from recall, in this context I see I meant the “Strawman argument.” A paper tiger is weaker than it seems. A strawman is just plain off-target: if you win, “so what?” See nearby image listing them.

Context: Coaching and supporting (women) who charge after “parental alienation theory” and support professionals who love to debate that, while ignoring the infrastructure, are being USED to fuel this Strawman debate.##

Such people are not throwing their OWN kids under their bus, or own careers, or own access to federal grants (USA, Canada, UK) to study this topic (ad nauseam) and crow about each new acknowledgement of being “heard” on it for their tireless (publications…)… (as if no pay were involved in the same)…

On further review of “15 Logical Fallacies to Know” — most fallacies seem common use, among the toolboxes of FamilyCourtReformists. It’s frustrating to see how (apparently) successful they are their handling of many logical fallacies in quick succession in almost any format.

## I say Strawman “debate” not “argument” because the arguments I keep reading aren’t even logical. They rely on excessive, inbred citations and piling up media references, mixed liberally with words such as “evidence-based” “empirical” “forensic” or even “clinical” where possible to slip that one in (for behavioral health or psychological fields), but take it apart, as stated, and look for a real argument — and you’ll find, mostly, assumptions. UNproved ones, UNsubstantiated ones, and behind that more of the same, but over time, stated a little less academically.. and people around the internet (mothers, especially) can be found perpetuating — literally, quoting — the earlier versions. ICYMI, I’m referencing especially “58,000 children a year” stated with intense and indignant conviction, passion or even sometimes tears — but determination.

I’ll take the rest of THAT paragraph a footnote to this footnote: “## Footnote “Debate, not Argument” (58,000 Children A Year” — STILL!) immediately below this one.

The idea isn’t to actual proving any sound, and logical argument (the idea isn’t actual argument, but to be seen AS if arguing). The idea is to pushthrough legislation to expand and perpetuate the cycle of trainings — but allow certain individuals to get their hands on more of the resources (and continue building their own reputations) of doing good works by having achieved / accessed to this. Without ever proving that lack of training or “what judges (etc.) believe” is even the problem.

And to do it with apparent “consent of the people” through ongoing logical fallacies amplified and multiplied over time. I’ve seen it in action for years. The best I can do is point it out, in action, and point to tools I have used to cut through the layers of propaganda and (hopefully) deflate some of the hot air involved.

The aligned professionals — basically across two major fields: law (includes most jduges and justices’ backgrounds) — and the mental/behavioral health fields whose labels begin with “psych-” (about three come to mind immediately) + I should add, the “social science” fields must be laughing, booking hotels and writing off their deductible-expenses ways to becoming the next principal-investigators on (or subcontractors for) the next NIJ or DOJ/OVW or VOCA (Victims of Crime Act) federal grantsto expound upon their or their aligned colleagues (pick a side of parental alienation: Pro? or Con?)own (leaky, fault-ridden) foundations of impressive verbiage and impressive people who quote (or, debate — which also lends credibility to status) it… such a lifestyle it is…

My problem is, I’m just not impressed. Sound arguments, honesty (ethics) and argument does impress me, as well as people who expect women to respond to that — not just warm shoulders and an empathetic ear, while being given dumbed-down versions of the truth appropriate for somewhere below adolescent level (but vocabulary sounding as though it were more mature)…

With the heavy loads we’ve been lifting all these years

and being hauled through different courts and institutions just for saying NO to abuse

we deserve better. We should demand that “better” of ANYone, any website or any individual, that wants our stories

And we should demand it of each other too. No short-cuts getting to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

It’s OK to be wrong, and to have been found believing what’s simply not true, or supportable.

But it’s not OK to stay hang out there and fail to confront the lies and liars, having been found in that condition.

We who’ve been through severe abuse personally, involving our own bodies and/or our children’s ought to “stick together” but we do not owe ANYONE to stick with those who’ve left truth by the wayside, who respect “experts” more than their own common sense and innate intelligence which kept them alive (apparently) so far. I don’t hang with that (except to point it out — then GET out — any more than I now attend any traditional church being desperate for fellowship and what may look like companionship and social support. … Not that I was raised in the church, but my marriage involved a Christian (so-called) man who was “OK” with assault and battery (and what is now called “coercive control” but is really just classic domestic violence in all its manifestations). So no, I do NOT have to “collaborate” with that.

That’s one of the strategic “lies” perpetuated from the start of a decision to form a “Mother’s Movement,” which has been documented in writing in several places, and I will get to (soon) as a deliberate distraction from the money trail and providing traumatized mothers (or those who want to help them) with basic tools to evaluate and follow a money trail, in this country (USA) or any other.

But I’m referring especially to the USA. //LGH

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## Footnote “Debate, not Argument” (58,000 Children A Year” — STILL!)I just heard it today in a 15-minute video by a mother from Michigan (originally, as to the custody case), forming a new nonprofit, and the presentation framed before and after by Lundy Bancroft. Not only did this woman NOT protect her children (lost in family court), get jailed once and threatened with more jail (over child support payments), refused to motion for reunification with her children (that seems to happen, from casual observing — not anything formal on my part — more often with already identified abusive parents), but she a few years later was — in a strange case which had some fleeting reference to “domestic violence” but doesn’t really seem to be such — murdered, in an apartment with a man she’d taken home from a bar (nearly 2:00 am) in Newport Beach, California — and was discovered, shot to death with this other man — in a locked apartment, April, 2019. I was listening to a tape only (though date wasn’t shown) what seems to have been very late 2016 or very early 2017. Her ex was a conservative Christian pastor…. VERY disturbing to hear (in more than one video) this woman get set up to fail, or having already failed, made a further fool of and exploited to entrap even more women with that quote!

I’ve added several tags not directly discussed above, but which (if clicked on) lead to posts which discuss principles it refers to. (all except the first few have some version of the “family” or the letters “Fam” in them.

~ ~ ~ To go back to the top, click on this Title:

@LetUsGetHonest Pinned Tweet (thread) with IRS Form 990 explanation and more, Moved Here [Mar. 7, 2022]. (short-link ends “-dNX”).

~ ~ ~ To go to my next post (assuming I have now published it):*

Moms New to #FamilyCourtReformists’ Lobby (Safe Child, Safe Parent, Broken Family Courts, Flawed Practices — and Please Welcome Our Nice, Empathetic, DV-Expert Men) Should Consider Their Script Carefully. [Mar. 11, 2022]. (case-sensitive short-link ends “-dQh”)

*(Some tags here may now apply more to there)..

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“NPEIV envisions a world free of all forms of interpersonal violence.” Hmm… Let’s Look Into That… [March 3, 2022].

NPEIV stands for “National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan.”

NPEIV = IVAT = FVSAI, Inc. at Alliant International University (basically), ℅ Robert Geffner, Ph.D.

If you search IVAT on this blog, you’ll find plenty, because so many “FamilyCourtReformists” (my new term) have been involved over time.

NPEIV claims IVAT (Institute on Violence Abuse and Trauma), a dba of FVSAI (Family Violence and Sexual Assault Institute), an IRS Tax-exempt 501©3 corporation legal domicile Texas but “entity address San Diego, California, as its (NPEIV’s) fiscal agent, according to NPEIV.org, if you squint, and know to look at the Donate” pages in hope to find whether a website reflects an entity or not, and if so, which one.

(per the IRS): Family Violence And Sexual Assault Institute *
EIN: 75-2401334 | San Diego, California

FVSAI stated tax-exempt purpose, as of FY2019 tax return:

Addresses the need for an international training, resources, and professional service center that focuses directly and specifically on the issues of family violence, sexual assault and child maltreatment issues.

Hmm… Should such a center responsibly identify itself, post audited financial statements, and be held to some standards of honesty and transparency to the public of the country where it operates?

[*Link to its latest IRS return, which reads “website “N/A” and “Legal Domicile: CA” (both seem to be false, according to California records and the existence of websites for both its dba IVAT and for NPEIV.. Makes you wonder what else might be falsely reported…] A few observations on the tax return at bottom of this post Only relevant to people who have some basis of comparison, i.e., may be reading other tax returns also… Although we all ought to especially for organizations claiming national and international influence on how people in authority respond to such topics. ..]

This Post Is:

“NPEIV envisions a world free of all forms of interpersonal violence.” Hmm… Let’s Look Into That… [March 3, 2022].. (short-link ends “-dNd)

I took it from:

This post:

Is about 3,000 words long only. [And one day later, now 5,500, most additions at the bottom]
Was put together within two days and is informal.
Is being posted as is to meet a deadline related to the closing of a coffee shop where I often write, and for my own conscience — not yours!
Ends abruptly, with a link back to its originating post at the bottom.

I don’t even care that it could do more. I’m putting out these points of reference, and want them out now. If you want a more polished version, start using that “Donate” button and find some others who might do likewise. Otherwise, don’t complain!

Before moving this material, I left a narrative summary (of the history of Alliant International University, mostly) there as a footprint. That narrative puts a timeline to the quotes here; together both versions should be useful.

It belongs there, but one post can only hold so much.

This is a (repeat, somewhat updated) introduction — or reminder — to who you’re dealing with and hearing from when someone references a journal run by the same guy who set up shop at (what is now) Alliant International University — and what that is, too.

This situation and many of its players has been on my radar for about a decade (if you count some time in 2012 to 2022 as it starts here… I have posted often on parts of it, and re-published, reminded people as I can. I have to ask — and often ask myself– what kind of people would participate?

And, given who has been participating and citing to such rhetoric (it’s propaganda, basically), why should we give them the time of day, or free (or even paid-for) help promoting it?

Does no one recognize what a Ponzi or pyramid scheme, or extreme layers of avoidance look like?

Or how religious evangelism works and looks, when it comes to propagation and “to hell with the financial consequences” on others, globally? I’m not saying that NPEIV, IVAT, FVSAI, or even the leadership of Alliant now, are religious.

But I do notice that its own history has taken both money and bought/sold campuses with religious resources (as to Alliant) and it’s churning out psychologists among whom are plenty who are in the business of marriage/family therapy for evangelistic reasons and using similar tactics. Let’s not forget that SoCal (San Diego being pretty far south on that map) is also famous for Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, and from those roots, Casey Gwinn/Gael Strack’s multiple persona, ever-changing entity name (and fact, some similarity in its name), ALSO San Diego-based ‘Alliance for Hope International”

And this tendency isn’t limited to Christian (fundamental or conservative Protestant) world visions only; there’s also a prospering and prosperous “new-age” segment too, flocking to the family justice, family courts, and protect vulnerable children themes — and fields of practice.

However THIS post is about NPEIV et al. It’s for me a review; I was going through the family court systems and, simply paying attention, already did some background look-ups on the acronyms, personalities, and the history of this university at the time. It’s good to be aware of!

Let’s not forget “NPEIV” when we read from this source:

[TandFonline.com Journal of Child Custody, or as it’s now called “Journal of Family Trauma, Child Custody, and Child Development”]

If you read my March 1, 2022, post in its first, or evolving version, this section relates to the family courts on many levels.

The acronym “NPEIV” is in circulation as in IVAT as is FVSAI (less so, as that actually refers to an identifiable nonprofit which might induce the reader to find and read its tax returns and, seeing how small and how few people are involved, compared to the global claims, visions and especially board of directors with major ties to “family court reformists” with their own global vision we’re supposed to continue telling our own legislators to keep funding (through VAWA re-authorization with “tweaks,” in 2022).. start asking more questions of those who subscribe to this set-up by continuing to reference it, each other, and their articles in a journal published (publication ownership home is the UK, not the USA) with an editor-in-chief who would set up home in such a place…

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March 3, 2022 at 5:53 pm

Tagged with "How many fiscal agents does it take to ____ (solve a problem | set up (or avoid setting up) a nonprofit?, Alliant International University, BMCC IVAT connex (SeeAlso Journal of Child Custody|Geffner), California School of Professional Psychology ("CSPP"), CSPP, FamilyPsych.org (AACFP & ABCFP establishing specialty field), Fiscal Agents, FVSAI, IVAT-FSVAI-Geffner & the Jodi Arias case, Journal of Child Custody (Geffner IVAT Alliant et al), Nicholas A. Cummings (see also my tags 'Nicholas J. Cummings' which is an error), NPEIV, Robert Geffner PhD (FVSAI & various journals), Robin Deutsch, Using 'dbas'

‘High-Conflict’ Court-Ordered Parenting Classes and Certified High-Conflict Divorce Coaching USA is Now on Steroids. Yet USA FamilyCourtReform Collaborators Using This Jargon still expect to be taken seriously (and are, for example, by at least one UK/Europe-focused journal.) [Begun Feb. 16, 2022, Published March 1.]

This Post Is:

~~Post-Publication Disclaimer on Post Length (and paragraph order),

ANY post may be further edited (as in, condensed, or expanded, or both) after publishing. Blogger’s privilege!

The “Late-March Revisions” summary (formerly at the top here) is now on a new post. Link coming within a few hours here…

(last paragraph of that summary, or “Intro to Revisions,” still here):(1) Four Reasons Why I Wrote “High-Conflict on Steroids,” my March 1 post, Now and (2) Intro to my March 26 Revisions of the Same [Publ. Mar. 28, 2022]. (short-link here ends “-e1z”)(REVISIONS SUMMARY FOR THIS (March 1) POST ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE ABOVE POST. I THINK ITS EXPLANATIONS MAY HELP PEOPLE BETTER SEE THE NETWORKS, AS WELL… DV NETWORKS + PROTECTIVE PARENTS NETWORKS…

NOT A REVISION, BUT, I also (pretty far down) went through the logos on NSPC website (at the time) and briefly summarized those that represented murdered children, at least to make a statement (from the links provided) what happened to whom, where, and when. BUT this exploitation of tragedy needs to stop. [Appeal for use of my DONATE button removed..]..

Thanks for your patience! (now it’s about 15,800 words…) //LGH

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I’m not exactly reporting good news here.. For a preview of some of the personalities, you might want to look at my August, 2019 response to a different situation involving the same hot topic: “parental alienation” usage, globally, and what people arguing its pro/con have in common with each other…That topic, “parental alienation” pro/con distracts from far more important issues; succumbing to the constant drone of this and similar (court-connected) generated jargon lulls into ignorance of, failure to investigate and report on what’s been happening under our noses: systems labeled beneficial for the public (and families, and children) facilitate fraud and theft of assets, and the public funds this.Through weariness, ignorance, fatigue (or is it, just don’t care?) we’re letting people who ought not to be representing us in other countries, to do exactly that and (collectively, in conferences and journals (etc.) with each other, determine what laws we will be subject to, and that we must accept at face value their assessment of problems WE face daily.

My posts so far this year focus on putting the word “national” as descriptive when applied to anything with or, more typically any part of an entity — United States legal domicile in its place and (not that I’ve EVER let up on that theme) maintaining a basic “entity awareness” and keeping talk about that in the forefront as it’s relevant to where our public funds are going, public funds too often (my studies show) gone “missing in action.” Over-application of the word “National” to a business entity’s legal name — or to a program or initiative of something run by a business (or government) entity is commonplace:

Two recent additions, with no less national (and some international) aspirations more specific to my recent posts and blog focus are, this time neither one of them (yet/so far as either website shows) separately filed business entities, a quality (non-entity) which makes it harder for outsiders to fact-check or follow financing, and easier for those running the named non-entities (but with enough of a name to have a web presence and some social media accounts) to, should they choose (and it seems they have) exaggerate how grassroots, how many “members” and in short, why they should be followed (or even respected) more than anyone else…

National Family Violence Law Center (at George Washington University, sometime after September 2019, with perhaps a 2020 add-on, however its “Dear Friends” launch announcement (just found now as I didn’t have the website url memorized and searched for it) is undated (no month, day or year)

(Saved as a pdf insert in case the announcement (at myemailcontact.com, not at the university) disappears: ‘Joan Meier and GW Law Announce New National Family Violence Law Center (MyEmail.ConstantContact.com, 100% undated but must be 2020ff)’~~2022.Mar.29 Tues

and the National Safe Parents Coalition, website apparently up just February 2022, which has a Twitter account and has already blocked me… Both discussed in more detail below on this post.

We should not be allowing private nonprofits with mutual self-interests not necessarily the public interest to run the courts, the judiciary, and certainly not our legislatures (USA: U.S. Congress or states). State constitutions should not be basically defanged and made puppets to the federal and enslaved (through dependency on federal grants and contracts) to its policy making.

That is, however, what we have. The list of of entities or “resource centers” named “national” and funded public (and/or private) is long. The two I mentioned above are neither the largest, but they are in the same tradition of attempts by the few to mastermind (the rest of us) according to the vision of the few. This does not speak well for representative government and with it, human rights (let alone civil or legal rights)… no matter how much people talking ONLY “human rights” in the global context say it does. [paragraphs added during update].

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