About us
Protective Makua is a Hawaii-based not-for-profit organization. Our MISSION is to reform family courts and refugee procedures to protect abused mākua (parents) and keiki (kids) when reporting domestic violence without fear of retaliation, discrimination, litigation abuse, or the threat of unconstitutional separation from their children.
We provide direct legal and social services to our clients to ensure that they receive due process and equal protection during custody disputes and seek to put an end to the legal promotion of "toxic fatherhood" and to reform policy to be truly in the best interest of the child.
We stand united around the world to undo the devastating effects that religious-fundamentalist fathers' rights groups, such as the Children's Rights Council (CRC), have had on state custody laws that now discriminate against mothers who report domestic violence or child abuse.
Our Goals & the CRC
The CRC turned the junk science of “parental alienation” from a child psychiatrist’s self-published theory into a multi-million dollar industry for custody evaluators, therapists, and attorneys, who profit from the prolonged suffering of battered moms and abused children.
Using federal taxpayer dollars, the CRC promoted Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) as a scientific fact, which has been empirically disproved. The CRC also lobbied to amend local custody laws across the U.S. and around the world to favor father-controlled joint or sole custody if mothers report domestic violence or intrafamilial child sexual abuse, ensuring the continuation of the suffering of battered moms and children and the loss of their dignity in the eyes of the court.
To achieve our goals, Protective Makua works in solidarity with protective parents around the world, one protective makua at a time, one state at a time, one country at a time, to undo the CRC’s devastating effects and to fully address their crimes against our keiki (kids), our makuahine (moms), and our legal system.
Conscious men support Protective Makua
Mission and Credo
Protective Makua believes that protective parents have the constitutional right to (1) leave a marriage wherein which they suffer domestic violence; (2) obtain sole legal and physical custody over their children if the protective parent suffers from domestic violence or their child/children suffers from physical or intrafamilial sexual abuse (incest); and (3) automatically have all admissible evidence submitted to the court record, and not to third parties, in these cases.
Furthermore, we believe that the use of parental alienation to discredit reports of domestic violence or child abuse is a constitutional violation of a protective parent’s right to due process. Scientific empirical studies prove that false reports of domestic violence and intrafamilial child sexual abuse are extremely rare. See Parental Alienation and Studies & Issues.
“Protective Makua works to unite protective parents in the collective reform of family courts and child welfare systems not only in Hawaiʻi, but nationally and internationally.”
“My children were murdered last January by an abusive father. Both of my children were shot four times in the face ... Evidence of … abuse was sent to a guardian ad litem … police records, hospital records, photographs … and absolutely nothing for my children was brought to justice … every lawyer I spoke to stood behind the [GAL] and said ‘he wasn’t the same person anymore.’”
— Kellie Elliott, survivor mom
