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

Court does not discover your story for you. If you don’t clearly and deliberately present what is happening in your child’s life, the court will default to fragments: partial records, third‑party impressions, and assumptions made under time pressure. Judges are not investigators. They rule on what is placed in front of them. That is why only parents can build their narrative for court and why failing to do so leaves critical context invisible. Your attorney won’t do it for yo

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