Immeasurable Breakdowns In ordeals of custody and divorce, an area exists where numbers and statistics become harder to tabulate but compound on a daily basis — as parents spend years on a perpetual merry-go-round in family courts and contending with agencies that often rob them of time — money — and a sense of purpose as mothers and fathers. The flagrant injustices and nightmares playing out for fit parents by means of manipulated laws, layers of bureaucracy and court systems covering for errors, mistakes — and to meet quotas for incentivized demands — wreak havoc on so many child-parent relationships in obstructing the physical and emotional bonds between them. As more awareness, active engagement and attention focuses on matters of exposing the alienation, gatekeeping and overall dysfunction in these ordeals, the better — it may be the only way to bring about the sweeping changes needed in a system that is beyond broken.