Honored to contribute to the @LPEblog symposium on #TornApart and #ProsecutingPoverty.

In my piece, I apply Victor Rios's idea of the youth control complex to trace the "maternal control complex" evident in Wendy Bach's and @dorothyeroberts's work: https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-maternal-control-complex/

Angeline Montauban called a service agency for help with domestic violence and the calltaker alerted CPS.

If you read about her experience in @inthesetimesmag or #TornApart by
@dorothyeroberts and dismissed it as anomalous, here's what DV advocates told me: