Ep 76: Revolutionizing Family Court: Building a Community-Powered Movement for Survivor Justice with Lundy Bancroft

What needs to happen for survivors of domestic violence and narcissistic abuse to get a fair shake in family court?

The overwhelming majority of people you ask will say family court reform or maybe that we need to burn it down to the ground and start again.

And while those of us in this space see the egregious nature of how survivors are treated in family court, at this point there does not seem to be a clear path on how to have sustainable change of this larger, patriarchal system.

So, what needs to happen for us to create a sustainable and powerful social movement to see actual change?

On this episode I talk again with Lundy Bancroft as a follow up for our discussion in episode 60. We touch on the shift of domestic violence agencies and professionals moving away from a support group and community support style of help to a more one-on-one approach to helping individual survivors as they go through family court. And while some of the one-on-one strategy is extremely helpful, the isolation of survivors is causing challenges to the overall healing of women and children. We discuss how a community support model could be extremely beneficial to support women who are in a position to start doing advocacy work.

We also discuss moving away from only focusing on education of court professionals and more to the accountability of these family court professionals in following laws that are already created and the importance of creating more protocols for these cases to follow.

We also touch on the importance of safety measures to ensure that survivors can speak out as well as their allies.

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