sentences:  They add that these employees improperly received immunity from the Massachusetts Supreme Court, threatened mothers with the loss of their children to coerce them into divorce and to attend support groups.They claimed that these support groups served the dual purpose of allowing associates of DSS employees to receive government funding for running the support groups, and allowing the DSS employees to gain information used to remove children.Female opponents at legislative hearings alleged harassment and threats of physical harm by advocates, while members stated that the National Organization for Women and others had possibly fabricated the claims to get attention as part of a plan to paint non-custodial parents as extremists.