The Sixth Annual Battered Mothers Custody Conference: "Solutions"
Friday January 9th - Sunday 11th, 2009, Albany, New York
2009 News, Announcements, and Events
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BMCC presenter Wendy Murphy, Esq. now has an online column at The Daily Beast |
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Wednesday April 29 - 8:00 pm & 11:00 pm / Saturday May 2 - 11:00 am See BMCC presenter Mildred Muhammad's story on Investigation Discovery Network! "Escaped, Episode 2: The Sniper's Wife" (check your local listings) Mildred Muhammad and her children run for their lives to escape her abusive husband who has threatened to kill her. John Muhammad will hunt Mildred like the enemy he hunted as an Army sniper. She’ll have to stay one step ahead of him to keep herself and her children alive.
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BMCC presenter
Tynia Canada's
custody story will be referenced in the May 2009 issue of Ebony Magazine, pages 100-101. |
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Friday April 24 (Sacramento, CA) and Saturday April 25, 2009 (Davis, CA)
The
Fifteenth Annual Northern California For information contact conference coordinator at cppa001@aol.com.
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Sunday, April 26 - Wednesday April 29, 2009 |
The Sixth Annual Battered Mother's Custody Conference: "Solutions"
Friday January 9th - Sunday 11th, 2009, Albany, New York
Two journalists comment on their experiences at the conference:
The start of the New Year always fills me with hope, with plans for change, with determination. But for me, there is also an annual event that overshadows the hoopla and superficial goals. For me, the New Year heralds the Battered Mothers Custody Conference ... full article
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This is really hard to believe. I am sitting in a room filled with women who were beaten, and violated in terrible ways. The room is not in Bosnia, or some far flung third-world hell-hole. I am ... at the Battered Mothers Custody Conference ... full article |
Holly Ann Collins sought asylum for her children and herself in the Netherlands to escape abuse; her case has recently received national attention. Holly's daughter Jennifer, now 23, is unabashedly demanding answers from America's family courts. Jennifer has posted extensive information, court documents, and videos online at ChildrenUnderground, and will be presenting her family's story at the 2009 conference. Clip from the PBS documentary film, Breaking The Silence Children's Stories |
Online Registration Organizations and Support Resources Legal Resources: Articles, Research, Contribute a Panel to the "Children Taken By The Family Courts" Community Quilt The Conference in PBS' 2005 Documentary Film: Breaking the Silence, Children's Stories
| Testimonies filmed by Garland Waller at the 2008 conference |
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