In our #SurvivorStories Series episode, we feature “Caitlin”–a protective mother who shares custody of her two children with her ex-husband. Caitlin describes how her ex-husband’s behavior revealed signs of abuse that she didn’t want to acknowledge nor understand. As Caitlin began to realize that her relationship was one of psychological and emotional abuse, began to…
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In this #SurvivorSeries episode, we speak with Anita Gera, a protective mother from Great Britain. In 2014, Anita went to British government to seek protection against her abusive and controlling ex-husband, an American pilot who was based in Arizona. Over the next year, through her ex-husband’s misuse of the Hague Convention, Anita’s case brought her…
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On this episode, our guest is Paul Griffin, Legal Director at Child Justice, Inc., one of the few organizations in the country dedicated to ensuring a child’s right to be legally protected from an abusive parent. As Legal Director, Paul – along with his colleague, Alexandra Sandacz — represents non-abusive, protective parents in child-custody cases…
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In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we have partnered with the Lone Star Parity Project to bring you this episode. Lone Star is featuring women working in the field of domestic violence prevention and on this episode of en(gender)ed, our guest is Jennifer Staubach Gates, a Dallas City Council Member representing District 13. First elected…
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On this episode, we speak with Jordan, a cis-gendered bisexual man who identifies as an intersectional feminist, anti-racist and pro-LGBTQAI. He grew up in Dallas, Texas as the second child out of 8 in a conservative Christian home who followed the teachings of the Institute in Basic Life Principles, established by Bill Gothard (a ministry that…
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