UN Decries “Parental Alienation”

Work in Progress: Wedding Quilt, Lily Michaud, a queen-sized problem. 2023-

I have been working on pearls for my wedding quilt. Little puffy padded satin pearls.

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This quilt is about gun violence, which does not have to lead to death to be devastating. I always refer to this project as “The Wedding Quilt”. but i also want to call it the miracle quilt. I can’t work on it without reminding myself of all the miracles I have experienced. Otherwise, I just want to curl up in the sorrow of this queen size problem project, puddle-in and eventually evaporate or seep back into Mother Earth.

This week’s miracle:

The United Nations published a report on Custody, violence against women and violence against children. This report suggests that now, judges should consider the behavior of the father before automatically returning the child. If the father has been abusive, it should be considered. Heretofore, the Hague Convention sent mothers, who are fleeing their homeland to save their lives and their children, home as kidnappers, only for the children to be abused and sometimes murdered by the father.

I’m going to focus on how positive this is, instead of all the pain and torture that the world has green-lighted in the past. Thank you to the UN for finally passing this. My friend’s family was a case study for this UN investigation. Her family endured an extra 10 years of abuse, while the UN decided whether women and children deserve to be entirely second to the will of men.