I'm assuming that the reason people are leaving without exploring past the home page is because your keywords are targeting child abuse. People searching for child abuse on search engines are most likely looking for statistics or information on the the topic of child abuse. Not the personal story of someone trying to get custody of their son. If your visitors were interested in citing examples of child-abuse or custody battles, they may become discouraged by the overload of information: long links and a long title on a long article.
The top left corner, which is typically believed to be the first place the eye looks, is filled with copyright information. Copyright information is generally something that should be available if a visitor is interested, but not forced by placing it in such an important location.
The banner with the kid's writing is a powerful image but it gets lost in clutter. The images to the right are more successful at drawing the attention of my eyes because they have people in them and variety in color. Next my eye is drawn toward the image on the right because of large area of intense blue.
The image of the child's message, imo, has the strongest effect on a visitor and would be the most likely to get visitors to want to know more. As it sits now with blue writing and a white background, it does not stand out from a blue themed site full of lightly tinted backgrounds.
My personal suggestions:
Move your copyright to the bottom of the page.
Recognize a target audience.
Decide what it is you want your visitors to do when they arrive.
Draw more attention to the image of the kid's writing.
Shorten the names of your navigation links.
Put less content on the homepage.
This is all just my opinion of course 
Last edited by DayliDesign; 12-27-2011 at 12:20 AM..
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