PUBLISHED 10/3/2024 by Amy Polacko and Christine Cocchiola“Making ourselves small to accommodate someone’s rage does not end well. I had to lose everything to learn that, but that doesn’t have to be your story.”In their groundbreaking new book, Framed: Women in the Family Court Underworld, Dr. Christine M. Cocchiola and Amy Polacko expose the gender biased injustice in family courts. Through
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This article was written by Amy Polacko and Dr. Christine M. Cocchiola and originally appeared in Ms. magazine: https://msmagazine.com/2024/09/20/colorado-mom-jail-kids-rachel-pickrel-hawkinsRachel Pickrel-Hawkins, a 48-year-old mother of six living in a domestic violence shelter, said the “therapy” designed to force children to reconcile with abusive father traumatized her children.Rachel Pickrel-Hawkins outside the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office in a photo
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WHEN: WED September 28th @ 8 pm EDT. How do you spot an abuser before it’s too late? How do you protect yourself in a marriage? How do abusers use coercive control? And what happens when you divorce a coercive controller/narcissistic abuser in family court? We’ll cover all this in “The Abuser’s Playbook Workshop.” You receive a
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Dr. Christine M. Cocchiola and Amy Polacko announced that “FRAMED: Women in the Family Court Underworld” is available for pre-order from various booksellers as of July 29, 2024. (You can find the links to purchase here: www.narcfreepress.com) The Connecticut authors wrote this exposé about what happens behind closed doors in the family court system to shine
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