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Kill the Precedent
Toni Bones

Kill the Precedent

By Toni Bones — Founder, Kill the Precedent

The book that names what the system refuses to call by its name. Coercive control as a legal category. Qualified immunity as an invented doctrine. Family court as a post-separation abuse mechanism. Child welfare funding as a business model that rewards removal over reunification.

Written by someone who has lived through all of it, documented all of it, and spent years building the framework to explain it. This is not a book about one person's story. It is a book about the pattern — and about the legal, institutional, and cultural architecture that makes the pattern possible.

Written for survivors who need language, practitioners who need training, litigators who need framework, and anyone willing to look directly at a system that is failing the people it was built to serve.

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What's Inside

The architecture of coercive control — what it actually is, how it works, why existing terminology fails to capture it, and what forensic frameworks like Neurological Battery and Psychological Homicide mean for how we name and prosecute it
How family court became the abuser's most powerful post-separation tool — the "high conflict" label, custody exchanges as coercive contact, and the financial attrition model of litigation abuse
The child welfare funding structure that rewards removal — Title IV-E, the Social Security connection, the Medicaid billing loop, and the documented lifecycle of harm the current system produces
Qualified immunity — what it actually is, where it came from, why it applies to CPS workers as well as law enforcement, and what the insurance model alternative looks like
The neuroscience of PTSD as brain injury — why the survivor in front of the judge presents the way she does, and why the calm composed person next to her is not more credible
Neurodivergence in child welfare — how autism and ADHD are misread as neglect, and what the ADA, IDEA, and Section 504 require that almost no agency provides
The reform framework — the legislative landscape, the insurance model, the mandatory training curriculum, and why survivors are the people who should be building what comes next
Honest About Where This Is

This book has more work ahead of it. The ebook you can buy today is the published version of Kill the Precedent as it exists right now — real, complete, and worth reading. The trade edition — the version that goes to a publisher, gets professional editing, goes to print, ships on Amazon, and reaches the courtrooms and training programs it is meant for — requires resources I am actively building toward.

I am raising money to get there. Every purchase of the ebook, every donation, every share that grows this audience is part of what moves the full publication forward. I am not asking anyone to fund a promise. The work exists. I am asking people to invest in the next stage of something already in motion.

The third book — the memoir — is deliberately held. It cannot be written until the ending exists. The children have to come home first. That book has the most to say and the most reason to wait. This one is ready now.

This is not a book about one person's story. It is a book about the pattern. And the pattern has been running long enough.

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