Accounts shared by families who have lived through the child protection and family court system. Names have been changed. Each was shared with permission.
“When the letter came through the door, I read it three times. I still didn't know what it meant. It took a friend, and eventually a solicitor, to translate it into English. This isn't a real submission — it's an anonymised composite the site's authors have written as a placeholder. Real submissions will replace it.”
“I was an afterthought in my own children's case for months. I had to fight to be included in meetings I should have been at by right. This is a placeholder story until real submissions come in.”
“We said yes immediately. We would say yes again. But nobody told us how lonely it would be, or how little help we would get. This is a placeholder story until real submissions come in.”
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