Blog - One Mom's Battle

I get accused of being anti-father more than almost anything else.

It's not true. It's never been true.

Fifteen years into this work, I have sat across from more good dads than most people will ever know exist in this space. Engaged dads. Protective dads. Dads who show up...

I did not come to this work from the outside. I came from inside it, as a child who was failed by a system that was supposed to protect me.

My mother lost custody of me before I was a year old. She had been hospitalized with a mental health crisis, and the early years of her life had layered trauma onto traum...

I was scrolling through my phone this week when a memory surfaced on Facebook. It was the five year anniversary of my ex brother-in-law being found guilty on all but one count lodged against him. The conviction covered 52 counts, including multiple sex crimes against child victims ranging in age from one to thirteen-years old. He had also secret...