26.Aug.2010 Dear Don
2009: A Judicial Guide to Child Safety in Custody Cases National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Family Violence Department Page 12: C. [§3.3] A Word of Caution about Parental Alienation Under relevant evidentiary standards, the court should not accept testimony regarding parental alienation syndrome, or “PAS.” The theory positing the existence of PAS [...]
15.Aug.2010 The Heat Continues on California’s Janelle Burrill by Parents Who Have Been Wronged
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall — think of it, ALWAYS.“ - Mahatma Gandhi From KFBK (Sacramento, CA): Custody Mediator Picketed Parents who [...]
05.Aug.2010 Outraged Parents Take Action Against California’s Janelle Burrill
LOL, wave to Janelle for me. Make sure to make a CNN ireport about it, she’ll like that. UPDATE: Listen to a news report from Sacramento’s KFBK on the protest here. For Immediate Release: Contact: Kathleen Russell August 4, 2010 Cell: 415-250-1180 Outraged Parents Take Action Against Janelle Burrill Criminal Complaints Against [...]
04.Aug.2010 Drugging Children of Divorce into Submission
The most disturbing problem to me is the drugging of children who are handed to the abuser in a child custody battle. I have had moms tell me about their children being drugged to the point they are walking zombies. And it’s no wonder…these children have to put up with the continued abuse of their [...]
28.Jul.2010 There’s Nothing Friendly About Abuse
Here is an article from the current issue of Ms. Magazine, written by someone who gets it…Dr. R. Dianne Bartlow: There’s Nothing Friendly About Abuse Children are at risk when custody cases rely on a meritless theory of parental “alienation” by R. Dianne Bartlow It’s a statistic so unbelievable that it’s difficult to wrap your [...]
26.Jul.2010 Parental Alienation Syndrome: The Facts
Yes, There IS a Crisis in Family Courts
Glenn Sacks and Fathers & Families are crowing about defeating the Center of Judicial Excellence’s attempt to have junk science thrown out of the courtroom. Women get screwed frequently in family courts nationwide….guys do too. And when an injustice happens, it can often be traced back to some unethical, biased psychologist or pseudo-psychologist such as [...]
20.Jul.2010 Battered Womens Syndrome
Battered woman syndrome (BWS), first proposed in the 1970s after research demonstrated the psychological impact from domestic violence on the victim, has undergone further clarification since its inception. This entry reviews the historical issues concerning domestic violence and its victims in the criminal justice system (including the criminal and family courts), describes psychological theories about [...]
18.Jul.2010 Helping a Child Manage Fears
This may help you understand what your children are going through after seeing you abused. While suggestions here are for those people in the real world, if you are in family court be careful with these suggestions or you could be labeled with so-called “parental alienation” or Dr. William Bernet’s so-called “parental alienation disorder.” (The [...]
17.Jul.2010 What Can You Do To Help Solve The Crisis In Family Courts?
Special Bulletin by the Leadership Council: What can you do to help solve the crisis in the nation’s family courts? April 14, 2010 According to a conservative estimate by the Leadership Council, each year more than 58,000 children are ordered by family courts into unsupervised contact with physically or sexually abusive parents following divorce in [...]
13.Jul.2010 More on William Bernet’s Dastardly “Warrior Gene” and Junk Science
I am still mulling this over after hearing it on NPR a couple of weeks ago. This author pegged onto what exactly it was that was bothering me, and that is JUNK SCIENCE. Dr. William Bernet of Vanderbilt University specializes in this component, being the proposer to the DSM-V Committee (the psychiatric and psychologist’s diagnosis [...]
09.Jul.2010 Endangered Species: Being Normal
From Psychiatric Times: Normality Is an Endangered Species: Psychiatric Fads and Overdiagnosis By Allen Frances, MD | July 6, 2010 Fads in psychiatric diagnosis come and go and have been with us as long as there has been psychiatry. The fads meet a deeply felt need to explain, or at least to label, what would [...]
04.Jul.2010 Majority of High Conflict Custody Cases Have a History of Domestic Violence
Dr. Janet Johnson, cited sometimes by Glenn Sacks, teamed up with Dr. Peter Jaffe to debate Dr. William Bernet and Dr. Amy Baker on the merits of Dr. Bernet’s so-called “Parental Alienation Disorder” and it’s consideration by the DSM-V Committee at the recent Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) convention in Denver. (Remember, [...]
02.Jul.2010 Dr. William Bernet’s Excuse for Abusive Murdering Husbands: The “Warrior Gene”
Parental Alienation Disorder proposer/Court Whore Dr. William Bernet recently testified in a horrific murder trial in Tennessee. When the police arrived at Bradley Waldroup’s trailer home in the mountains of Tennessee, they found a war zone. There was blood on the walls, blood on the carpet, blood on the truck outside, even blood on the [...]
