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Safeguarding Comes First

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Safeguarding gets treated like background noise when parents are locked in a contact dispute, but I want to bring it back to where it belongs: front and center. When a child says no to contact and allegations fly, the most important question isn’t who tells the better story. It’s whether the child is suffering harm, or facing a meaningful risk of harm, and what needs to happen before anyone talks about “restoring” contact.

I break down why emotional harm is so easy to miss in family court cases and why it rarely arrives as one neat disclosure. Instead, it shows up through…

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