The world of family courts, where legal struggles over custody and visitation take place, is a nightmare in the lives of many thousands of abused women across the United States and Canada. A woman who has overcome so many obstacles to finally free herself from abuse can suddenly find herself jerked back into the abuser’s grip, because he is the legal father of her children and chooses to continue his abuse through the legal system.
Not my experience (granted, without children) - family court seemed pretty familiar with the language, behaviors and manipulations of abusive men - but maybe mine was just too overt
In any case, mediation and family court judges seemed to catch on very quickly, having seen so much of it before
