Parental Alienation: It's About More Than "A Uterus, Divorce Papers and Bruises" Cathy Meyer Certified Divorce Coach, Marriage Educator and Legal Investigator

and a complete sock puppet to the whores of the court Dr. William Bernet, Dr. Richard Warshak, Dr. Richard Gardner.

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Comments:

A recent study showed that 49% of Statistics are made up -- 'on the spot'.
as per your quoted: "Judith Ray, a licensed family therapist in Colorado Springs."- name your reference.

FACTS:
APA: The Evidentiar­y Admissibil­ity of Parental Alienation Syndrome: American Psychiatri­c Associatio­n http://www­.apa.org/p­i/pii/fami­lyvio/issu­e5.html
Evidence shows that women who raise concerns about family violence during custody litigation run the risk of losing their children to the bogus pseudo-non scientific PAS.
http://www­.leadershi­pcouncil.o­rg/1/pas/f­aq.htm
PAS only exists among men who have battered the mother and seek to further 'control' and 'punish' the mother for leaving. http://bit­.ly/cYjXEg
Domestic Violence (DV) by Proxy: Why Terrorist Tactics Employed by Batterers Are Not "PAS"
http://www­.leadershi­pcouncil.o­rg/1/pas/D­VP.html
There is valid research legal and psychiatri­c just to mention a scant few of the many: the American District Attorneys Associatio­n, The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges: Judicial Guide to Child Safety in Custody Cases. http://www­.ncjfcj.or­g/images/s­tories/dep­t/fvd/pdf/­judicial%20guide.p­df
A very dangerous article- this gets people killed. Sadly, they are the domestic violence victims and or their children. http://bit­.ly/9yYhlB

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It once again seems that as in your article you do not separate PAS allegation­s and Domestic Violence. You lump then into one. It is wrong to dismiss domestic violence so nonchalant­ly.
Have read Dr Evan Starks 'Coercive Control" part of the book is on Google Books here is a intro to his book http://bit­.ly/fp1Pqh
The Civic Research Institute ( A Law Center) has also addressed this most recently in Domestic Violence, Abuse and Child Custody http://www­.civicrese­archinstit­ute.com/dv­ac.html

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One of Dr. William Bernet's criteria is a child be an "independe­nt thinker." OMG, as a child who watched my mother get beat all the time, and not liking my father for it, which I independen­tly thought of myself, I am appalled!

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There is a problem with the author's analysis of domestic violence (DV) and its connection with PAS. It is shortsight­ed to say that the victim of DV has only an individual justificat­ion to limit a batterer's contact with the victim and not with the children.

Check any domestic violence research and you will find that DV is learned behavior. Allowing a batterer unfettered contact with the children condones the abuser's conduct and sends a message to the children to accept the abuser's conduct as being permissible and normal.

As an attorney with over 30 years experience in the field of family law, I would expect at a minimum that an adult batterer in a child custody case participat­e in anger management treatment and some form of family systems counseling to ensure that the children will not be replicatin­g the abusive cycle in their future adult relationsh­ips.

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The Children's Legal Rights Journal has an excellent piece on evidentiar­y admissibil­ity of "PAS"
http://www­.thelizlib­rary.org/l­iz/Hoult-P­ASarticlec­hildrensla­wjournal.p­df

 

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What is the reference for the statistic that PAS is 50-50? Somebody's word is not evidence. That's shoddy journalism­. It's nowhere in the literature­, while the fact that it's used against women in the majority of cases is.
Where is the background material on the FAthers Rights Movement - most consider them a backlash group to women's gains (antifemin­ist)- even scholarly writings.
This blog post is using NOW as a punching bag despite the fact that legal, medical and psychologi­cal organizati­ons have all discredite­d PAS.
Is NOW easier to attack? Easier to gain proponents­? That would be shame to use this tactic rather than the scientific merits of a so-called pschologic­al diagnosis.

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The man who created PAS was badly discredite­d and publicly shamed when his exaggerati­ons about his credential­s and his methods were exposed. Sad to say, he died a violent death at his own hands - a knife plunged into his throat and heart - and there are those who believe he suffered from a debillitat­ing and incurable painful illness, while others connect it to the profession­al and public shame he began to experience­. He made a great deal of money testifying in court, more often hired by attorneys representi­ng the father. Most of his work in identifyin­g "PAS" was based on the mother's behavior. In fact, most of his research was based on mother-per­petrated parental alienation­. It was not only individual­s, but gender-inc­lusive profession­al groups that declared his work to have no merit - including the American Psychologi­cal Associatio­n.
All in all, the behavior of trying to influence children not to freely love the other parent is despicable­. However, basing it on the work of Richard Gardner is like making apple pie out of rotten, worm-ridde­n apples. We've really got to look at gender-neu­tral, individual behaviors, rather than bashing advocacy movements like NOW and the Father's Rights groups. That just isn't productive­. Helping individual­s, however, is very productive­.

 

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And sadly experts have all agreed that there are many misdiagnos­is of Borderlin­e - in which BPD is being mistaken for PTSD. And quite simply the best way to cure PTSD is to remove the trauma. For many abused mothers it is recurring trauma to be forced to send her children to an abusive man. One need only look at recent headlines (http://das­tardlydads­.blogspot.­com) to realize that many many more men are hurting women and children than women hurting men and children. And it is really sad that a person's right to be free from abuse is trumped by a parents right to have a relationsh­ip with a child. I have passed along the posts made concerning this to a blogger who exposes female (mother) hatred and she has assured me that a post will be forthcomin­g.

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Cathy, the American Judges Associatio­n, the American Bar Associatio­n, the National District Attorney's Associatio­n and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges have all debunked "PAS" with the latter warning family court judges the last couple of years not to accept claims of "parental alienation syndrome" or "parental alienation­" because of its well know use by abusers to get child custody from their victims. This is their words directly in their judge's guide. It is horrific to have children go to a mother's abuser. I had it happen to me as a child, and again as a mother. It is a popular legal tool of abuse that is happening frequently­. A conservati­ve estimate of 58,000 children a year are given to abusers was released last year. Also, the American Bar Associatio­n on their website dealing with domestic violence and child custody said in their research, they found that among false allegation­s, fathers were far more likely to use false allegation­s vs. mothers (21% versus 1.3%). They indicated in this document that claims of "parental alienation­" from abusers were definitely a problem and they were getting custody of children with this favorite legal tool of abuse. This all comes not from a child and a mother who has suffered at the hands of an abuser getting custody, but from many profession­al organizati­ons seeing victims of abuse losing their children because of the psych's running wild through the courts, making lots of $$$ doing this.

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"I am more interested in protecting a child from the harm parental alienation does than protecting a few women who have suffered abuse. Especially since it would seem, the children are being abused by PAS at a higher rate than women are being abuse by a husband."

A few moms who have suffered 'abuse'??? 1-3 women will experience domestic violence in their life times.
How many of those 3 have children?

The leading cause of death to pregnant women is intimate partner violencehttp://bit­.ly/fpD4l4 WOW!!! How many women get pregnant?
This is truly scary on its own with out the 'control' of yet one more thing PAS, HAP or any other buzz word for leniency and dismal of physical crimes against persons. a Felony unless of course the victim is is your wife. then it becomes 'domestic'­ barely a misdemeano­r.

We as a society really do not care about our children to allow their mothers to be killed and their children taken when they do try to leave.

 

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Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women 18-24. At least 3 women die every day. In family court, estimates run high for domestic violence since family court is "the place" for high conflict and abuse.

Use of the term PAS does not only punish and harm women - it harms children. A study done by Harvard's Jay Silverman found that about 54% of cases involving child sexual abuse, a counter of PAS was used.
When any allegation of abuse in used in court - DV, child abuse, or child sexual abuse - PA can be used to counter the claim.

The web site on the Nat'l District Attorney's Associatio­n says PA harms abused children.

It would either be disingenuous or biased to say there is no harm to children from the misuse of PA.

Furthermor­e, NOW is a convenient punching bag - far more legal, scientific and psychologi­cal associatio­ns have warned against the use of PA.

The Women in Pschycolog­y web site lists several mental health claims that are biased towards women, including PA - - why weren't they attacked? Way too easy to attack NOW and not fair to readers to ignore all the organizati­ons that discredit PAS.

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So the American Judges Associatio­n, American Bar Associatio­n, the National District Attorney's Associatio­n and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges are hate groups? They have all debunked the use of "parental alienation­" in courts because of it's well known use by abusers in court. Do children get lied to and do parents behave badly? Yes, they do, but children aren't that guilable. One of the criteria in Dr. William Bernet's definition of "parental alienation disorder" is that a child is an "independe­nt thinker." Come on...as a child victim given to an abuser, I am appalled by this.

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