04.Apr.2010 Victims of California’s Janelle Burrill Continue to Wait for Justice
From the Victims of Janelle Burrill Support Group: BBS licensed social worker Janelle Burrill LCS 16216 Sacramento Background on this alleged fraud: Janelle Burrill is a DCA Board of Behavioral Sciences licensed clinical social worker LCSW 16216 based in Sacramento with extensive ties to the family courts. Dozens of her victims have been coming forward since [...]
03.Apr.2010 April 25th: Abuser Awareness Day is Coming Up Soon
Father’s Rights groups ran wild trying to get our governors to proclaim April 25th as “Parental Alienation Awareness Day” again. Of the few governors that sign, I believe most were duped about this claim often used by abusive parents, being such an easy online process for the most part. One state even states on their website when [...]
29.Mar.2010 Why Terrorist Tactics Employed by Batterers Are Not “Parental Alienation Syndrome”
From the Leadership Council: Domestic Violence (DV) by Proxy: Why Terrorist Tactics Employed by Batterers Are Not “PAS” As more and more abused women lose custody to batterers in family courts, they are wrongly embracing the very ideas that enabled their abusers to gain custody in the first place. False accusations of “parental alienation” are often [...]
13.Mar.2010 Abuser Bob: Freaked Out by the Truth About Parental Alienation Syndrome and Disorder
I read the recent post by Glenn Sacks a few days ago at Fathers & Families and was deciding how to answer this, starting with the fact it did not come from National NOW, but the very proactive New York State Chapter. It was written by Tracy Simmons, Co-Chair of NOW-NYS Domestic Relations Law Task [...]
05.Mar.2010 Criminal Rewards: The Impact of Parental Alienation Syndrome on Families
Here is an excerpt: Since 1985, the claim of parent alienation syndrome (PAS) has represented the extreme collusion of male entitlement, the mental health profession, and family courts. PAS is a pseudoscientific theory used to prevent battered women from protecting their children from exposure to violent and abusive fathers. It asserts that children who resist parents’ [...]
28.Feb.2010 Parental Alienation Syndrome and Alienated Children – Getting it Wrong in Child Custody Cases
This paper should be mandatory reading for all family court judges…here is a synopsis: As courts and legislatures continue their enthusiastic ventures into family law reform, they make frequent use of theories and research from the social sciences. This essay focuses on developments in child custody law stemming from Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS), a theory [...]
23.Feb.2010 Make Your Voice be Heard with the DSM-V Committee on Parental Alienation Syndrome
Although the so-called “parental alienation syndrome” did not make it into the draft DSM-V recently released by the American Psychiatric Association, it still has a chance to be slid in. Being called “parental alienation disorder,” it is in the list of those in consideration from outside sources: Conditions Proposed by Outside Sources There are a [...]
22.Feb.2010 Preston Thymes Keeps Educating California on Stopping Use of Parental Alienation in Family Courts
Preston’s on another website now, this time it’s The Californian. Comments are open…please stop by that website and let them know how you feel about AB 612. Soapbox: Bill can help protect our kids in custody battles By Preston Thymes • February 22, 2010 In 2009, an estimated 16,000 U.S. children were living in domestic [...]
20.Feb.2010 “Deprogramming” Children with So-Called Parental Alienation Syndrome is Science Fiction
From The Pocono Record: By JOAN DAWSON June 10, 2009 In the past few decades, a term called Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) or Parental Alienation (PA) has been used in family courts to describe a situation where one parent poisons the mind of the child against the other parent. While it is true that some [...]
18.Feb.2010 Efforts Continue to Exclude “Parental Alienation Syndrome” From Family Courts in California
This is from the Capital Weekly in California. The bill they refer to, AB 612, has been attacked by father’s rights groups, and has suffered some watering down of the language. But the proponents and supporters are moving forward with trying to get it through the state legislature. The comments for this article are open [...]
15.Feb.2010 “Parental Alienation Syndrome” Not Included in Draft DSM-V
Being seen for what it is, the recently released draft fifth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) did not include the so-called Parental Alienation Syndrome. The “syndrome” has been seen for what it is: a tool in the legal toolbox that abusers use to take custody of children away from [...]
13.Feb.2010 Richard Gardner’s Questionable Ethics Led to the Development of “Parental Alienation Syndrome”
This is from The Association for Women in Psychology: PARENTAL ALIENTATION SYNDROME Julie R. Ancis, Ph.D. Parental Alienation Syndrome, which is being proposed for inclusion in the DSM-V, has been generally defined as a child’s denigration of a parent without justification. The creation of “Parental Alienation Syndrome,” otherwise known as PAS, is partly the result [...]
20.Jan.2010 A National Child Custody Crisis: Why Moms Are Punished in Court
This is from Mom Logic. I personally know Linda Marie Sacks and Lorraine Tipton, and they are beautiful, strong women. Please go to Mom Logic and leave a comment on this very important story! Custody Crisis: Why Moms Are Punished in Court Tuesday, January 19, 2010 filed under: divorce logic Talk to mothers, divorce lawyers, [...]
14.Jan.2010 Another Parental Alienation Syndrome Article Bites the Dust: Mom Logic Takes Down it’s Shameful Post
They just weren’t posting an honest story about parental alienation. Written by Dr. Michelle Golland, a clinical psychologist in California, it actually sounded more like an advertisement to drum up business. Parents who have lost their children to abusers came to the article to tell their story, and to inform this psychologist that claims of [...]
