Some children have learned that survival is suppression. They sit quietly and say nothing happened, or that it wasn’t that bad. And family court professionals falsely assume everything is okay.  Custody shifts and children are stuck in unsafe homes.  But silence is not safety. Denial is not the truth. What looks like a child protecting a parent is far more often a child protecting themselves from further abuse and neglect.  They are the ones that have to go home to this paren

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