Let me start by saying, number one, that if judges are able to understand what abuse looks like in the year 2022—that it's not just bumps and bruises and black eyes—that is one of the first and biggest things that is super-important, because right now when judges dismiss them, all they've done is enabled an abuser to continue almost in perpetuity, with the abuser saying, “The judge said it's okay; I can continue this.”
Similarly, if judges start to understand the trauma responses of victims, then they'll understand that a victim's actions may not be nefarious in nature but are actually protective of their child. These are the types of things that are really going to protect people, because judges are the final gatekeepers and they have to be the ones to take that final stand to say, “No, this is what's going to happen with your child.”