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Attack of the 50-Foot Feminist Agenda

Angry, radical men's groups believe males are being victimized by out-of-control judges and politicians. They're wrong and they're dangerous and they need to be stopped.

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Not Guilty, But Still Not Free

The case of Kelsey Fitzsimmons and the system that separates mothers before due process

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What This Family Court Nomination Reveals About High-Conflict Custody Systems

Mary Ferriter Nomination Sparks Concern Over Deep Ties to High-Conflict Custody Systems

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In the Best Interest of [the Judge]

How Massachusetts Protects It’s Courts While Failing Families, Survivors, and Children

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Breaking: A Mother Reported Child Sexual Abuse for Two Years. Massachusetts Family Court Gave the Father Makeup Time

John Donovan is being held without bail after Plymouth County Judge Horan reinstated his parenting time in May.

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950 Days: What Family Court Did Not Want on Paper

A threat of foster care, grandiose predictions of maternal violence, and the court record I spent nearly three years trying to obtain in Massachusetts.

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The Court Ordered Me to Pay to See My Children, Massachusetts’ Own Guidelines Say That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen

Mass.gov says payment for supervised parenting time cannot simply be forced onto a parent. My court order did exactly that.

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The Almighty Puppeteer With Five Percent Parenting Time

Family court keeps asking people to believe I am too dangerous to mother my children and powerful enough to control them through a supervised keyhole.

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One Affidavit. Two Courts.

After years in Family Court, I no longer expected the court to follow its own published procedures so I took it to the Supreme Judicial Court.

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The GAL Myth: What the Kelsey Fitzsimmons Case Is Revealing About the Family Court Industry

What protective mothers have been warning about for years: GALs, AFCC, and the expanding industry around custody conflict.

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The Public Thinks Kelsey Fitzsimmons Is Winning. Mothers in Family Court Know What It Is Really Like

Why supervised visits, tiny “victories,” and endless reunification are often signs of a system designed to prolong separation, not repair families