Coersive control is not a private matter.

It is state-enabled child abuse when institutions dismiss or deny its existence and mislabel it as "high-conflict parenting".

Every day that systems look the other way, children are forced into survival strategies that fracture their attachment to their protective parent.

This is institutional betrayal.

Our children cannot afford silence.
They deserve protection by the very systems  meant to safeguard them.

And Fathers/Mothers who refuse to be erased ere not being "difficult". 

They are often the only line of defense standing between the child and the predatory parent.

- Christine M. Cocchiola, DSW, LCSW