For Professionals

A Short Note to You

If you are a professional...
Thank you for coming to our page. If you are a judge, lawyer, evaluator, psychologist, LMFT, or other professional, we welcome you here. While there are many ethical professionals, there are many who are not.  These unethical practitioners are hurting your industry and preventing justice to be served. Children are being harmed and many are dying, ACE scores are skyrocketing, and blind eyes are turning.  This must end.   

With many professionals profiting by ignoring abuse, child trafficking is happening here in our own state, across this country and throughout our world.  Children are also dying at the hands of their named abusers. The great responsibility you have within your profession has never been more important.  

Many of you have not received the proper training. Most are not trauma informed. Many have been told to ignore abuse claims for it is just a “high conflict” or divorce situation. You may have been asked to accept false claims of Parental Alienation. Divorce courts do not appear to be following the best interest standard in most abuse cases. Children are being silenced instead of protected and the abuse is ongoing.

Children who are abused may not want to be with their abusers. When the abuser is a parent, the child may feel obligated to do so. It is your responsibility to remove the child from abuse, regardless of the relationship. Being a parent does not give a person a right to abuse their child.  CA Family Code 2044 states children have the right to be safe and free from abuse and that domestic violence in a household where a child resides is detrimental to the health, safety, and welfare of the child.

It is our hope we can help shed light into this darkness that has taken over our family courts. Right now only 10% of the abused children are believed and are getting help. Only 2 to 6% of abuse claims are false, therefore 90% of abused children are not getting help. This is unacceptable and needs to reversed. 

At CPPA, we support all protective parents but we acknowledge that, in general, most protective parents are women.  Why this happens: the majority of women have less money to defend themselves, there are still biases in our courts, there is still a culture that dismisses abuse, adults do not like to think about child abuse, and it is easier to blame the mother than believe abuse happened.

The 115th U.S. House of Representatives passed H. Con. Res. 72, calling for all states to make child safety the first priority in custody adjudications. It will allow you to stand in the truth and protect the child, even when your colleagues may not be doing what is right. Our hope is to work together with you to bring solutions that help protect child and change laws, policies, and procedures to end this crisis. It takes a village and we need your help.

You can take a stand to have courage to be the change that is needed.  We invite you to learn more about Jennifer Freyd's work to move from what she calls Institutional Betrayal to Institutional Courage.

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