When domestic violence is documented in case files, there are additional complications. Oncedomestic violence is identified, the system expectation is for the mother to end the relationshipwith her abusive partner or be found to have failed to protect her children. The documentationof violence also results in quick movement toward removal of children from the mother’s careand the batterer’s access—even when removal and placement in alternative care is known tobe extraordinarily traumatic for children,
With limited resources available the mother is being expected to access or naturally have and utilize resources to provide for her children and protect them, stablize and heal them, as a single parent or lose her children. If a mother chooses to move her children to the streets because there is not access to shelters and her family cant take her and her children in the children are torn away from the only person with any perspective and lived experience as well as a fully developed brain being able to help them overcome the trauma experienced