Links Section

	MOTHER FIGHTS TO PROTECT SON
	OCCUPY NEW BEDFORD
	IACHR GONZALES DECISION
	MASSUNITING.ORG
	MASSACHUSETTS PROTECTIVE MOTHERS
	BATTERED MOTHERS' CUSTODY CONFERENCE JAN 6-8, 2012
	THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE
	MA MOTHERS' FORUM 2011
	WE ARE ONE - NEW BEDFORD 4/4
	NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN
	NOW AND CEDAW
	CA NOW DISORDER IN THE COURTS
	NY NOW DISORDER IN THE COURTS
	MASSACHUSETTS NOW
	NARAL

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Address to the Legislature of New York, 1854

Look at the position of woman as mother. There is no human love so generous, strong and steadfast as that of the mother for her child; yet behold how cruel and ruthless are your laws touching this most sacred relation.

Nature has clearly made the mother the guardian of the child; but man, in his inordinate love of power, does continually set nature and nature's laws at open defiance.

Traditionally, the word “racket” is used to describe a business based on the example of the protection racket and indicates that the speaker believes that it is making money by selling a solution to a problem that it created (or that it intentionally allows to continue to exist), specifically so that continuous purchases of the solution are always needed.

With permission from the Cape Cod Times, (First link, left, read this hugely important article)

A boy, 7, allegedly sexually abused by his own father, holds his mother's hand as they walk down the street in Hyannis Jan. 11. A Brazilian native, she's fighting in the courts to get full custody of her son, whom she says has been abused for years.

Cape Cod Times/Christine Hochkeppel

By Patrick Cassidy January 29, 2012

BARNSTABLE — She thought she finally had the sordid proof in hand; her young son's pajamas stained with what she suspected was his father's semen.

But after years of fighting a language barrier, her own fears and a Barnstable probate judge who did not believe that her ex-husband had molested the boy, she froze.

If she called police, she feared Barnstable Probate Judge Robert Scandurra would take the boy away from her as he had threatened if she made further allegations of sexual abuse against her ex-husband that could not be proven. If she stayed silent, she firmly believed her then 6-year-old son's safety was at risk.

…"What is reality?" They have written complicated volumes on this question. The woman who was a battered wife and has escaped knows the answer: reality is when something is happening to you and you know it and can say it and when you say it other people understand what you mean and believe you. That is reality, and the battered wife, imprisoned alone in a nightmare that is happening to her, has lost it and cannot find it anywhere. “ LETTERS FROM A WAR ZONE WRITINGS 1976-1989 by Andrea Dworkin Part III TAKE BACK THE DAY A Battered Wife Survives 1978, 1988, 1993