by Joyce Logan

Created on: August 29, 2007

This Can't Happen In America.....but it does and it did

I want to begin this article by quoting a few statements I recently found on some websites.Then I will write my article.The reason for this is to bring to your attention this astounding problem that sits at each of our own very back doors. One does not begin to recognize this sort thing is common in America until IT HAPPENS TO YOU.

Once your family becomes the victim of this sickness that apparently travails our nation, once you've witnessed your family's destruction, for no reason , when your whole being is rendered powerless and your struck with the inability to function, if you finally manage to crawl back up, just a little bit, and start searching for some answer, for some explanation, for some form, any form, of help that might be available then you find these web sites.

My reaction to this is MY GOD, why is it necessary for these organizations to exist in America, the Land of the Free. where politicians cite their devotion to the Sanctity of the American Family? If this is so common, so well known about, why doesn't our government take a stand against it, instead of not only allowing it to happen, but being the actual fuel and force for this sickness, that allows it to exist and continue?

FROM THE WEB SITE www.unitedforjustice.com
"United for Justice was formed in the realization that some mothers who lose their children in family law courts do so as the result of fraud - where bribes and favors have been exchanged. For these protective parents no price is too great to pay for their children's safety. The result of that is almost always dire financial circumstances during prolonged custody litigation - which has in many cases already been irreversibly pre-determined. The protective parent is locked into poverty as life savings of even extended family is depleted. This impoverishment born of fraud must cease."

FROM THE WEB SITEwww.batteredmotherscustodyconference.org
"Since batterers know that nothing will devastate the victim more than seeing her children endangered, they frequently use the threat of obtaining custody to exact agreements to their liking. Custody litigation becomes yet another weapon for the abuser, heightening his power and control tactics to further terrify the victim"

FROM THE WEB SITEwww.justiceforchildren.org
"To raise the consciousness of our society about the failure of our governmental agencies to protect victims of child abuse, to provide legal advocacy for abused children and to

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