There is only one way to reform family courts and that is for the federal government to expect them to
be trauma-informed.
High-conflict family court is more than one parent brainwashing a child to reject the targeted parent. High-conflict family court is a cesspool of deadly trauma. It is the synergy of the top sources of trauma in this country; parental mental illness, domestic violence and child psychological/emotional abuse.
1. Parental Mental Illness - one parent abuses and neglects his or her family due to their narcissistic and/or borderline personality disorder traits.
2. Domestic Violence - the mentally impaired parent uses coercive control to terrify the targeted parent into not exposing his or her abusive behaviors.
3. Child Psychological/emotional abuse and neglect is also called psychological maltreatment. This along with living with a mentally impaired parent, witnessing domestic violence, high-conflict divorce (that goes on for years), and losing a parent due to alienation, adds up to an ACE score of 6+ out of the top 10 Adverse Childhood Experience.
On top of this, our children's only chance of recovery from trauma is through the loving safety of the targeted parent, who has been distanced, if not all together erased from the child's life by the erroneous decisions and judgments by those "professionals" in high-conflict family court.
The bottom line is that excessive trauma is prolonged and escalated by high-conflict family court and becomes deadly to our children.
Children of high-conflict family court disputes develop mental and physical health problems that include, but are not limited to:
depression, anxiety, relational problems, including transmitting the trauma to the next generation (trauma reenactment), self-destructive behaviors like drug and alcohol abuse, and are at a 5000% increased risk for suicide, and educational and occupational problems. They also are at a high risk for developing cancer, heart and lung disease and dying 20 years earlier than without family court trauma.
