Politicians who can’t find the urgency to fix family courts that sever thousands of American children from fit parents every year become experts in child welfare the moment an ICE headline arrives.
If separating children from loving parents is a crisis, then family court is one of America’s largest child-welfare scandals. Court orders go unenforced. Parenting time gets blocked. Alienation is rewarded. Contempt becomes expensive theater. Parents are drained financially while children are emotionally mutilated by a system with almost no outside accountability. This is not a fathers-only issue. It is a children’s issue, a due-process issue, and a corruption issue. Politicians who cry on command over immigration headlines but ignore domestic family-court destruction are not child advocates. They are performers. The family-court machine needs hearings, audits, and consequences.
I appreciate the effort and descriptions in this article. How can we get a local paper, podcaster or investigative organization listening? You are the starting “camera.” Your article caused me to brainstorm a flow chart with starting points (I can share a link if you'd like to see the chart). Maybe call organizations and see if they will say that they support parental and children rights and be willing to be listed publicly on a list of organizations that are working on fixing the problems? If they don’t support, then list them in the “don’t support” column and what their reason for not currently supporting is. Also, can you/we share stories from children who are now “legal” adults who will describe the terrible impact? I might be able to ask a friend or two to share their stories. They shared that they are “children of divorced parents” with negative experiences. I bet if we list judges who regularly separate parents and begin tracking the number of none 50|50 custody decisions that they make, then the judges and public would begin to see the scale of the problem faster and might alter behavior.
Thanks, Alan. I appreciate the ideas. A lot of what you described is exactly where I’d like to take this project.
The biggest limitation right now is resources. I’m funding this myself, so every hour I spend digging through court records, collecting data, or interviewing families is an hour I’m not doing paid work. Even basic investigative work—filing public records requests, paying for court documents, traveling to hearings, and following up on leads—takes a significant amount of time and often costs money out of pocket.
I’d love to launch a podcast and record these stories firsthand, but that also requires equipment, production time, and travel that I simply can’t afford right now.
That’s why I’m starting with the written investigations. As the project grows, my hope is to expand into podcasts, video interviews, larger data projects, and systematic tracking of patterns across jurisdictions. I think exposing patterns and repeat actors—not just individual cases—is where real accountability begins.
If enough people find value in this work and support it, those larger projects become possible. Until then, I’m trying to build it one investigation at a time.
And I’d definitely like to see that flow chart. Feel free to send it.
If separating children from loving parents is a crisis, then family court is one of America’s largest child-welfare scandals. Court orders go unenforced. Parenting time gets blocked. Alienation is rewarded. Contempt becomes expensive theater. Parents are drained financially while children are emotionally mutilated by a system with almost no outside accountability. This is not a fathers-only issue. It is a children’s issue, a due-process issue, and a corruption issue. Politicians who cry on command over immigration headlines but ignore domestic family-court destruction are not child advocates. They are performers. The family-court machine needs hearings, audits, and consequences.
I appreciate the effort and descriptions in this article. How can we get a local paper, podcaster or investigative organization listening? You are the starting “camera.” Your article caused me to brainstorm a flow chart with starting points (I can share a link if you'd like to see the chart). Maybe call organizations and see if they will say that they support parental and children rights and be willing to be listed publicly on a list of organizations that are working on fixing the problems? If they don’t support, then list them in the “don’t support” column and what their reason for not currently supporting is. Also, can you/we share stories from children who are now “legal” adults who will describe the terrible impact? I might be able to ask a friend or two to share their stories. They shared that they are “children of divorced parents” with negative experiences. I bet if we list judges who regularly separate parents and begin tracking the number of none 50|50 custody decisions that they make, then the judges and public would begin to see the scale of the problem faster and might alter behavior.
Thanks, Alan. I appreciate the ideas. A lot of what you described is exactly where I’d like to take this project.
The biggest limitation right now is resources. I’m funding this myself, so every hour I spend digging through court records, collecting data, or interviewing families is an hour I’m not doing paid work. Even basic investigative work—filing public records requests, paying for court documents, traveling to hearings, and following up on leads—takes a significant amount of time and often costs money out of pocket.
I’d love to launch a podcast and record these stories firsthand, but that also requires equipment, production time, and travel that I simply can’t afford right now.
That’s why I’m starting with the written investigations. As the project grows, my hope is to expand into podcasts, video interviews, larger data projects, and systematic tracking of patterns across jurisdictions. I think exposing patterns and repeat actors—not just individual cases—is where real accountability begins.
If enough people find value in this work and support it, those larger projects become possible. Until then, I’m trying to build it one investigation at a time.
And I’d definitely like to see that flow chart. Feel free to send it.
Michigan Family Court Fraud-https://www.judicialcriminal.com https://clutchjustice.com/2025/10/13/michigan-family-court-24-years-whistleblower-ignored/