Dr Emma Katz — scroll down this link to find her podcasts. Her blog: Decoding Coercive Control.
Emma Katz has become a world expert on coercive control in children’s and mother’s lives. I highly recommend her work. Some of her articles can be read in full for free. But if you can afford it, it’s worth paying the monthly fee to read all her articles.
A blog where children express their fear, pain and desperation through poems, art, music, and letters.
Cedar Network: Impact of Domestic Abuse on Children
Cedar (Children Experiencing Domestic Abuse Recovery) is a unique way of working with children, young people and their mothers who have experienced domestic abuse.
Children Against Court Appointed Child Abuse
This website is run by adults who as children were victims of Court Appointed Child Abuse, where Family Court orders them to have contact with or even live full time with their abusive parent or were alienated from their protective parent by the lies of the abusive parent.
This website is run by adults who as children were victims of Court Appointed Child Abuse, where Family Court orders them to have contact with or even live full time with their abusive parent or were alienated from their protective parent by the lies of the abusive parent.
“Dear Sheldon…” A Story of Maternal Abuse
By Taylor Joy Young, blogger and survivor of a domestic abuser mother.
Family Violence Hurts Kids Too
Information for parents who are in abusive relationships but think “I can put up with it; it’s not hurting the kids, it’s only hurting me.”
How can I help my children heal from abuse?
An ACFJ FAQ page with a list of related posts.
How Do I Tell My Children We are Leaving Daddy?
A post in which the ACFJ readership discusses how to answer this difficult question.
Parental Alienation Syndrome: Frye v. Garnder in the Family Courts
Article by Jerome H. Poliacoff, Ph.D., P.A., Cynthia L. Greene, Esq., and Laura Smith, Esq. that refutes the premise that Parental Alienation Syndrome is a valid diagnosis and should be admitted into child custody cases.
Protective Behaviours for Children
An ACFJ post that might answer some questions from mothers who are about to have to provide their abuser with unsupervised access to their children, and the mothers know the abuser has been sexually grooming or outright sexually abusing the children.
Revisiting Parental Alienation Syndrome — Scientific Questions, Real World Consequences
This article from Social Work Today presents the “other side” of the PAS debate.
By Cindy Burrell.
Sexual abuse may include inappropriate touching, being forced to have sex or engage in sexual acts, being forced to watch pornography, being prostituted, or having someone expose themselves to a child.
Stanley On The Shoulders Of Giants: How Children Respond To Violence
An ebook (PDF) from FearIsNotLove, the home website of the Calgary Women’s Shelter.
An ACFJ blog post by Barbara Roberts.
The Truth Behind Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) — part 1
The Real Parental Alienation — part 2
Two ACFJ blog posts that reveal the myth of PAS.
Using The Internet Safely, While Advocating For Your Personal Custody Case.
From the Protective Mothers’ Alliance International.
By Cindy Burrell.
By Cindy Burrell.
What if the abusers were one’s parents?
An ACFJ FAQ page with a list of related posts.
What’s OK at Home (WOAH) website
By Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
WOAH is a one-if-a-kind online platform with exercises, stories and information that support children and young people aged 10-17 to recognize family violence and provides practical guidance to support their safety, health and emotional well-being.
When Kids Blame The Victim Too
An ACFJ blog post by Barbara Roberts
WomensLaw.org — a project of the National Network to end Domestic Violence (NNEDV)
WomensLaw is an extensive website launched to provide legal information and resources for victims of domestic violence. They also provide several pages of safety tips here, one of which is titled Safety Planning with Children.
[Page updated January, 2026.]
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