ABSTRACT
The FGDM process generates trust in family groups as they make and carry out decisions that better the lives of their relatives struggling with violence in the home. Gendered and intergenerational violence is one of the most fraught areas for trusting families and their cultural networks and raises the sharpest questions about the current turn to non-carceral, community-based responses. The families in the FGDM Project were far into public regulation of their lives; nevertheless, their caring and ingenuity demonstrated their capacity to find solutions that worked for them. This final chapter identifies a series of blocks to cascading trust in families and cultural networks and possibilities for circumventing these blocks. The impetus propelling forward non-violence and mutual confidence is restorative making-with, based on an ethic of feminist kin-making. At its heart, feminist kin-making builds bonds of affinity that support caring tending, rather than violent repression, whether in the family and community or within and between nation states.
