3 Women 3 Ways

REFORMING FAMILY COURTS

There are too many stories about dangerous and ridiculous custody determinations that occur in America’s family courts. From children who are sent to live with abusers to children who are killed because the courts determine their killer should not be kept from seeing the child—the stories abound. So what are we doing about it? And who is doing it?

Meet Danielle Pollack, Ambasador, Child USA, Family Court Reform, author of Kayden’s Law, and tireless worker to change what happens to children in family court, and Marcie Hamilton, CEO of Child USA, attorney, and constitutional law professor at the University of Pennsylvania.  

Whether drafting and promoting new laws in states, to educating judges, to speaking out about legal and systemic changes that are necessary in courts, Pollack is dedicated to making things safer for kids.

Join us as Pollack details cases and potential laws, shares the latest thinking about educating judges and other decision makers, and advocates for protective mothers.

Airing for the first time, Saturday, January 25, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.

KAYDEN’S LAW: EFFORTS TO STOP CUSTODY DECISION DEATHS

Seven-year-old Kayden died at her father’s hands because a judge disregarded the father’s threats of violence against her mother. As is the case too many times, the justice system failed this child because the judge created a false equivalency between parents, one of whom was violent.

And Kayden paid the price of that. So where is the uproar and public demand that the legal system get smarter?

Efforts in Pennsylvania are centered around Kayden’s Law- proposed legislation that would prohibit custody decisions likely to lead to tragic outcomes like Kayden’s.

Melanie Blow, with the Stop Abuse Campaign, joins us to explain what Kayden’s Law would mean, how it will improve custody decisions, and how similar efforts are going on all around the country.

Airing for the first time, Saturday, December 28, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.

DOES THE U.S. JUSTICE SYSTEM FAVOR OF RAPISTS?

According to a recent article being widely circulated on the internet, all signs point to the US response to sexual abuse as being dramatically leaning in favor of sex offenders.

That is according to Barry Goldstein, advocate, author, and champion of fighting gender bias in the courts.

Goldstein reports in www.stopabusecampaign.org that the flawed practices of the US justice system result in that justice treating victims unfairly and allowing privilege to perpetrators. He argues that the requirement for corroboration, the mistaken idea that women falsely report sexual crimes, and lack of using expert witnesses, among other problems, creates injustice, bias and contributes to the great and escalating costs of sexual crimes to our society.

Join Barry as we discuss gendered crimes, prosecutor misconceptions and more that lead to a system that favors rapists.

Airing for the first time, Saturday, December 7, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.

US Response to Sexual Abuse

CALIFORNIA PROTECTIVE PARENTS ASSOCIATION: EDUCATING AND ADVOCATING FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

What started as a park bench conversation about protective parents losing their children to abusers in family courts has evolved into an organization that is making nationally renowned progress in working to eliminate the problem.

Catherine Campbell is the Executive Director of the California Protective Parent Association (CPPA), a group which has created awareness through research and education and is holding court officials accountable for decisions and behaviors that are harming children.

As a protective parent with a marketing & communications background Campbell is at the forefront of the movement. She has worked with congressional members on both sides of the aisles to help pass this child safety resolution in 2018 in the U.S. House of Representatives. In California she has helped build awareness to see the passing of Piqui’s Resolution (HR113), worked with Center for Judicial Excellence to bring an audit forward for the California Commission on Judicial Performance which is the first ever audit in their nearly 60 year history and meet with CA legislatures to update laws for DV and child safety.  Join us as Campbell explains the organization, what necessitated its development, and how it is making an impact across the country.

Airing for the first time, Saturday, November 9, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.

SAFE AND TOGETHER INSTITUTE:

The intersection of domestic violence and child maltreatment is easy to see for anyone who works with families, yet often judges or child protective services seem to ignore the connections.

But not the Safe and Together Institute.

The organization is dedicated to educating agencies about the creating domestic-violence informed child welfare systems and agencies, all to support the safety and well-being of survivors. And a crucial component of the program is being specific about abusive behaviors and perpetrators.

Find out how judges, family courts, and child protection organizations react to such education, and how it may be changing the way courts operate all across the United States. Join Heidi Rankin, an Associate Director with the Safe & Together Institute, as we examine how this approach could be helping all victims.

Airing for the first time, Saturday, November 2, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.

GUNS AND INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE: THE FACTS

A million women alive today have been shot or shot at in intimate partner violence situations.

Gun ownership, gun rights, gun violence…all are different when we are talking domestic violence.

          Rachel Graber, Director of Public Policy for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, shares the statistics, the research, and the background about guns and DV. Laws vary from state to state about gun confiscation, criminal background checks, and protective orders, but the facts are staggering: more than four million women have been threatened by guns by abusers. An equally staggering number of women and children have been killed.

          Join us for the conversation about gun violence and DV.

Airing Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 11 AM Pacific time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.

When a mother flees her homeland for another country trying to escape abuse and ensure safety, the journey is not easy. Amid the pain of escaping home, friends, family and hopefully, danger, is the fear of the unknown, the uncertainty of the future, and in many cases, the discovery and further victimization the mother was trying to get away from.

In a return interview, Suzanne Lichau gives an update on her daughter and grandson who fled the US after family courts here refused to protect the child from the father. The two sought asylum in Costa Rica, and although they were granted asylum, and the courts there took the sexual assault accusations seriously, they are still dragging their feet on the case. And worst of all, mother and child have been separated for months.

Join us as we get an update of this case and the safety of the child.

COERCIVE CONTROL: ONE WOMAN’S JOURNEY

We hear the term “coercive control” but how many of us really understand what it means? How pervasive is it? How damaging is it to the victims?

Min Grob is a resident of Bristol, England, and she not only lived with coercive control, she also came to understand it, escape it, and develop programs to educate about it and fight it. But she still struggles with the residue of the experience even as she works to do something positive about the problem.

Join us as we talk about one woman’s journey through this insidious form of intimate partner abuse.

Airing for the first time Saturday, August 17 at 11 AM Pacific time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.

ABUSIVE DADS: HOW THEY PERCEIVE THEIR FATHERING

When we talk about abusive dads, we talk about them in relation to how they treat their partners, how they make excuses, how the courts treat them. Rarely do we talk about how they actually perceive themselves as fathers.

Turns out there are some real twists there.

Henning Mohaupt, clinical psychologist, researcher, and PhD Candidate at Oslo University, did a study of physically abusive men and how they think of themselves as dads. You might be surprised at what Mohaupt found out, not only about how they see themselves, but also about how they come to think that way.

Join us as we discuss how men who abuse experience their parenting.