Protective parents who have tried through the course of their marriages to do everything right, to keep their marriages together, to protect their children—and then, when all fails, to leave with dignity and fairness—are vilified for finally speaking the truth with regard to the nightmares they survived.
In the course of marriages that are the products of the repetition compulsions induced by the legacies of generational trauma, survivors speak. Marriages that should never have taken place, never sustained for years beyond the inevitability of tumultuous separations that demand the right to continue, survivors speak.
The righteous expectation of relief from continued abuse, humiliation, and desecration of lives, accompanied by the attempt to rescue the lives of children not yet fully destroyed, is undermined by family courts.
The mantra of the debunked concept of Parental Alienation Theory—that disseminates the lie that there is no child abuse, that claims of abuse are false, and that little children are sexual predators—has infused the family court culture of child traƯicking with an embrace of false narratives echoed in the phalanx of court-appointed operatives.
Fabricated manipulations to gain an advantage are arguments based on the twisted logic of projection by abusers who understand their crimes, their motivations, and their ability to inflict guilt where there is and should be none.
The conscious guilt of the court authorities—understanding the financial rewards within reach of a system that purportedly seeks to protect victims—warps the evidence of abuse into the trappings of the legal defenses used to protect those charged with crimes. Plausible deniability can be introduced to inject doubt into the existence of crimes against children that are incontrovertible based on medical and scientific expertise.
A system in family court—not criminal court—designed to protect confidentiality has become weaponized, cloaked in judicial discretion, and smothered by the failure to require a preponderance of scientific evidence. Insider trading tactics have become the standard— trading lives for profit and property division.
Protective parents are shamed for speaking the truth to their children. Children who were raped, strangled, beaten, threatened as witnesses to the atrocities inflicted upon their abused parents are made to excuse the very relationships that broke them.
Children’s experiences and feelings were denied and minimized for years. The court’s gaslighting has undermined their reality testing, morality, and sense of justice. All this is explained away in legal babble and lies that discredit scholarship and obstruct truth.
Those who come forward to protect themselves and their children—who seek reasonable accommodations—are degraded, vilified, and deprived of the most basic due process rights.
Court processes become conveyor belts, dismantling dignity, self-respect, personal rights, property, and the capacity to protect one’s children. Children become commodities—sold into therapies condemned by the United Nations Council on Violence Against Children as psychological torture: mind control and virtual slavery.
Complaints filed against court actors and state licensing boards are met not with investigation and review but with retaliation—defamation, slander, and the defense of court-appointed figures complicit in the suƯering and deaths of children and protective parents.
A CASE IN POINT: ARIZONA
The Arizona Licensing Board recently confirmed the license of a PsyD psychologist aƯiliated with a so-called Christian-based counseling program. This psychologist was
credibly accused by a teenage client of masturbating during court-ordered therapy sessions.
The teen’s father—present at the center and a material witness—was not permitted to testify. His microphone was muted. Concrete documentation of perjury by the psychologist and his attorney was admitted into testimony—over objection. Yet, the psychologist’s suspension was overturned, and his license was reinstated.
This chilling retaliation against legitimate complaints filed by licensed professionals must be addressed.
THE NIGHTMARE REPEATED: CYCLES OF TRAUMA, BETRAYAL & COURT-ENABLED ABUSE
These are not marriages. They are trauma reenactments.
Men and women raised in silence, abuse, and denial often replicate these dynamics in adulthood. And when they finally find the courage to leave—not in vengeance but in dignity—they are not met with justice. They are met with retaliation.
Family courts do not reward survival. They punish it.
The infamous “Parental Alienation Syndrome”—debunked by academic and medical experts—is heralded in courtrooms as gospel. Protective parents are accused of alienation simply for listening to a child’s cry, reporting bruises, or objecting to silence.
And the children? They are raped, strangled, sold into reunification therapy—“treatment” the U.N. calls psychological torture. They are not healed. They are reprogrammed to love their abusers and fear their protectors.
SYSTEMIC SECRECY: THE FAMILY COURT STAR CHAMBER
Confidentiality was meant to shield the vulnerable. It now conceals the predator.
The discretion of a judge has become the sword of the abuser. Medical records are ignored. Forensic evidence is dismissed. Constitutional rights are trampled under bureaucratic boots.
Abuse, even when documented, becomes a weapon against the reporter.
“Why didn’t you leave?” becomes “Why are you so emotional?” And when the emotional toll is visible, it becomes the excuse for removal.
PERSONAL SACRIFICE, PUBLIC MISSION
For over five decades, I have stood against this tide—not as a bystander, but as a target.
Thirty-two years of licensed practice were interrupted not by incompetence but by integrity. I exposed the collusion between a judge and a court-appointed psychologist— collusion that contributed to the suicide of a young boy. That child’s death became the crucible that forged the Foundation for Child Victims of the Family Courts (FCVFC).
This was not a career pivot. It was a moral imperative.
I pursued this mission through academic rigor and legal warfare. My work has informed doctoral theses, supported federal litigation, and led to the establishment of a public interest law firm: The Foundation for Law in the Public Interest.
This law firm does not serve power. It confronts it. It stands as both sword and shield for whistleblowers, protective parents, and child victims.
I have endured defamation, financial sabotage, and character assassination. If I—a woman of privilege, education, and resources—can be so viciously targeted, what becomes of the poor, the unconnected, the unrepresented?
BUILDING THE FOUNDATION
My years of postgraduate study, including a Master of Science in Health Sciences earned magna cum laude, shaped the organizational structure of FCVFC.
The inspiration behind our programs came from the need to understand and document family court corruption—its sources, its incentives, its actors. These insights were solidified in the formation of the FCVFC as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in March 2007.
This work—academic, legal, and forensic—laid the groundwork for litigation strategy and systemic change.
Unwittingly, I became a whistleblower. And out of whistleblowing came meaningful legal advocacy: prosecution of crimes against children, defense of civil rights and constitutional liberties, and exposure of the courts’ perversion of medicine, science, and law.
THE ATTACKS — AND THE RESPONSE
I have continued this work uninterrupted by the slander and defamation wielded by court actors desperate to silence the truth.
Every attempt to discredit me has only sharpened my tools: scholarly research, litigation support, peer consultations, and public testimony.
These assaults on my integrity have become the building blocks of my profession— because if I, with all my credentials, can be threatened, what of those with no platform, no access, no representation?
Each insult, each fabricated complaint, has added to my expertise.
Each experience—each “I should have known better” in hindsight—has become the basis for protocols, trainings, and new frameworks for evidence preservation and legal analysis.
SPEAKING TRUTH — AND PAYING THE PRICE
The right to speak, to file complaints against authority figures, to expose corruption and fraud without fear or favor—these are not luxuries. These are constitutional rights. And they have been denied to thousands of families seeking protection for their children.
The cultural and legal climate we face is hostile to truth and allergic to accountability. But our response has never been retreat. We endure. We metabolize their hatred and transform it into action.
The Foundation for Child Victims of the Family Courts stands at this front line—shoulder to shoulder with vulnerable children, protective parents, and their families.
A CALL TO ACTION
This is not a lament. This is a call to arms.
The American justice system—specifically the family court system—has become a traƯicking enterprise built on federal incentives (Title IV-D and IV-E), the weaponized lie of Parental Alienation, and the financial collusion of judges, therapists, and attorneys.
Children are bought, sold, and transferred through court orders. Protective parents are redefined as abusers. The judiciary has become a star chamber where constitutional rights are expendable.
Licensing boards and state agencies no longer protect the public. They protect power. They retaliate against those who speak. They destroy professionals to preserve predators.
We must confront this industry of pain with courage, forensic truth, and the full weight of public outrage.
THE BOTTOM LINE
Every child removed from a loving parent is not a tragedy—it is a transaction. It is a check written to the court’s collaborators.
We are raising generations of broken adults—predators or prey. The future of our democracy demands that we dismantle this machinery of abuse and deception.
The Foundation for Child Victims of the Family Courts will not retreat. We stand in the blinding light of truth.
We stand with protective parents.
We defend the voiceless.
We indict the powerful.
We do not hide.
We do not forget.
We do not forgive the betrayal of our children.
“Speak truth, and let the heavens fall.”
Jill Jones Soderman
Founder, FCVFC
Whistleblower | Advocate | Warrior for the Innocent
