Please sign and and send a copy of the following letter to the US Justice Dept. and/or your Representatives in Washington, DC

Thank you,

Quenby Wilcox


Catherine Pierce
Acting Director - Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)
US Department of Justice
800 K Street, N.W., Suite 920
Washington, D.C. 20530
tel: 202-307-6026

Dear Ms. Pierce; July 20, 2009

Statistics and reports abound on domestic violence and abuse in the USA and around the world, all coming to the same conclusion; there exists a global systematic torture and genocide of women and children. What these reports do not explore nor divulge, however, are the direct and indirect economical and social costs that this global violence creates for our societies, as well as its origins.

I myself am a victim of domestic psychological abuse, have studied this problem from a multi-cultural, multi-faceted perspective for most of my adult life and can conclusively attest that efforts by all of our societies are peace-meal and ineffective. However, it was not until my own divorce and ensuing research that I discovered to what extent judicial systems maintain and even encourage domestic abuse.

Domestic abuse and violence are so integrally a part of long-standing parenting techniques of “civilized” societies that the biggest obstacle in fighting this war is teaching people what constitutes abusive behavior. The second is holding judges, lawyers, law enforcement officials and therapists accountable for failures to uphold the law as well as constitutional, civil and legal rights of citizens.

In A Promise to Ourselves by Alec Baldwin, he correctly states “Family law is a racket. It is a racket within which the principal players have convinced even themselves that they are serving innocent children as well as the public. However, the only people they are truly servings are themselves… The people who are to blame are the lawyers, the therapists, the legislators, and, most insidiously of all the judges. They are the cogs in a closed system, one that they have allowed to evolve principally for their own enrichment, financial or otherwise…. How much of what we currently tolerate inside a family law courtroom is the result of institutional greed, bad legislation, corruption, and politics?”

And, contrary to popular belief the same "racket" goes on in domestic violence cases, the consequence for the victims, however, go far beyond monetary concerns.

This is the reality of what is occurring in family law and no amount of legislation or federal grants will change this fact. The solution to the problem is quite simple and much more cost effective than present solutions. Laws should not be “interpreted” in legal decisions and proceedings, but rather applied.

“The world is a dangerous place; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert Einstein

Sincerely,

Quenby Wilcox