According to the CDC's ACE study witnessing domestic violence traumatizes children. In 2014 over 46,000 Connecticut residents asked for assistance with an abusive relationship.

In 2015, seventeen residents lost their lives to abuse.

Nationally 58,000 dangerous abusers are given unsupervised visitation or custody with their children every year, and when there are allegations of sexual abuse, the alleged abuser is granted custody 85% of the time. In a recent two year period 175 children were murdered by abusive fathers involved in contested custody cases, often with the inadequately trained court professionals helping them to gain access to their children.

Connecticut has an unprecedented opportunity to become a state where abuse is prevented, not tolerated. Because no child needs to experience witnessing domestic violence. Because no child deserves abuse. Because children deserve to be protected from trauma. 

Act now, sign and share the petition, protect Connecticut's children from court mandated abuse. And if you want to help protect kids in other states, click here