Her group tries to show parents the nature of their fears and get them to communicate. If the mother feels the child is going to be awarded to the father, she may make contact with underground organizations. These groups hide families and make finding children difficult. Seventy percent of parents she helps are mothers and 30 percent are fathers. The majority of her cases, she says, involve alleged child sexual abuse, as well as physical abuse and neglect.
Parents try to get protective orders for their children in cases of abuse or neglect.
They spend thousands of dollars on legal fees, and you have judges who just don't listen. In other cases, judges tell parents they cannot leave the state. It forces the parent into this dilemma. But child advocates insist that abduction is not the answer. Parents who take the law in their own hands are not only giving up on the justice system and trying to evade it, but they're harming their children.