FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

 

CONTACT:              Karen Estelle, Executive Director, Children Without A Voice

Phone Number: (703) 887-5459

Email: karen.estelle@childrenwithoutavoice.org

 

-CHILDREN WITHOUT A VOICE-

ABUSED CHILD CUSTODY AWARENESS NIGHT

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Warrenton, Virginia (October 5, 2006) – Children Without A Voice has organized an Abused Child Custody Awareness Night to be held on Thursday, October 5, 2006 at the Fauquier Springs Country Club in Warrenton, Virginia.  The event starts with a cash bar reception at 6:30pm and the program follows at 7:30pm.  Expected to be there are various state and regional legislators, domestic violence advocates, custody evaluators, area attorneys, women’s groups, protective parents, journalists from every area of the media, as well as many other supporters too numerous to mention.  

 

The Abused Child Custody Awareness Night is a grassroots event intended to increase national awareness on this ever escalating issue.  This fundraiser features powerful segments from two highly acclaimed documentaries; Small Justice and Breaking the Silence: Children’s Stories.  These documentaries address the severe injustices that protective parents too often face in our nation’s family courts. 

 

Small Justice is an independent and award-winning documentary that exposes the broken family court system our nation depends upon.  It describes how abusive fathers use their children to control their mothers, and how more often than not, these fathers are awarded custody by the courts.  As unimaginable as it seems, it is happening every day in the United States.

 

Breaking the Silence: Children’s Stories is a PBS documentary originally aired on October 20, 2005 and chronicles how domestic violence impacts our children.  Using stark interviews, mothers share their horror stories of abuse within their homes and then the trauma that followed when they attempted to seek custody and/or protection for their children. 

 

In addition, internationally renowned attorney and author, Richard Ducote, Esq. will be the keynote speaker and plans to discuss the rights of abused children and their mothers. 

 

Children Without A Voice (CWAV) is a Warrenton, Virginia organization concerned with the future of children who have witnessed abuse, in all its forms, and are caught up in the legal arena of custody battles.  CWAV urges the community to get the information they need to understand what is happening repeatedly in our courts and to our children.  Supporting the children and the protective parents in these types of abusive situations is CWAV’s number one concern and asks for the community to support these efforts by attending this all important Abused Child Custody Awareness Night. 

 

For more information on this issue in general, and on this specific event, please go to www.childrenwithoutavoice.org, or use the contact information located above.

 

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