Who We Are
A coalition of women fighting for the power to maintain custody and protect our children after divorce |
The Women's Coalition is striving for a future in which women have the power to maintain custody and protect our children after divorce or separation.
We pursue our mission by raising awareness of the Custody Crisis, by working on a new system that does not allow for male entitlement or discrimination against women, and by forming a powerful coalition to demand implementation of the new system. The Women’s Coalition was founded by Cindy Dumas, M.A., who has been researching, writing, and raising awareness about the custody crisis since 2003, when she discovered she did not have the power to keep custody or protect her children from their father.
Cindy's son, Damon, is now the Communications Director for The Women's Coalition. He was forced by many judges, over the course of ten years of his childhood, to live with the father who sexually abused him, despite Cindy's and Damon's own relentless efforts to protect him. Damon was only able to escape the court's and his father's control by getting married on paper at age 16, which emancipated him without the need for a judge's signature. |