Finally got to registering here; thanks to the ladies so far who've welcomed me in. Below is a message I also copied and posted on the other site mentioned where I found this one. Looking forward to perhaps working with some of you on this project. Thanks again.

Thanks for all your messages so far. Below is from a personal message, my response to a reply from one of the Boomerwomenspeak.com site members. I was in decent form this morning so I thought the ideas on the subject matter might help here. Best, Jaye

Thanks so much for your response. I look forward to being able to roam freely with fewer constraints around the BWS (boomerwomenspeak.com) message boards and the one that took me to it, EADV.net.

The anthology is going to be targeted to the general market about family abuse from it's unacknowledged though often most dangerous forms. I've found out the hard way how gravely the public and professionals are uneducated about it, even with emotional and other forms of abuse in the law books; it remains unpresented to any significant effect in the courtrooms. If tragic results have not already occurred in the home, more damage is done through the court process. Those who cannot defend themselves, the children, are almost routinely put at serious risk by court order. This is in addition to the position the individual who went to the courts for help as a 'last resort' finds themselves in: usually the mother.

I'm sure you would agree someone you know has been unhappy and written about it on the subject of family discord, particularly on the nuclear level. Until something bad happens, outside family members too frequently don't know what has taken place in the private homes of their closest loved ones.

That's what the anthology is about: poems, essays, and art, in that order from 'someone you know' as a form of expression when 'love goes wrong' especially where a child is involved.