Advocate Groups, legal professionals, mental health professionals, experts, lawmakers, and concerned citizens have joined forces to create a community to organize advocacy efforts for evidence-based policies which put child safety and risks at the forefront of child custody decisions.
We believe it is a child’s right to live free from abuse and that child safety, which is implicit in the law, must be made the top priority in practice, in all private custody decision-making. We work with similar national coalitions across the globe, all whom are contending with the same problems we see in the U.S.: Court’s resistance to taking risks and abuse to a child seriously in the context of child access decisions.