I am one such victim as a father to my oldest and to my youngest. My oldest was removed form me by the likes of Justice for Children (JFC) www.justiceforchildren.org.
Allow me to tell the reader a thing or two about this group. While thier name may sound flowery they and it possesses a couple of fundamental flaws. One is that they refute and rebuke any effiecay of Parental Alienation. If that were not inane and arrogant enough they go on to claim that any father making the allegation against a mother is a child sexual predator. Care to doubt that amazing assertion? Just read the Houston Chronicle of May 2, 2007 where Alene Levy went to work for them from the Hanynes And Boone law firm. Read what she said!
Now if that were not all bad enough and of the DEVIL, this group along with Stop Family Violence, Legal Momentum aka a litigious branch of National Organization of Women, and others, file a lawsuit with the Interamerican Commission on Human Rights in commemoration of Mothers Day 2007 of all things! In it they make the same allegations, that the nation's children are being sent to the households of male sexual predators by the family courts.
Today my daughter oldest is 21 years old and still cannot reconnect with me. She dropped out of high school and made a baby. She is already separated form the father of this child. If she had remained with me she would probably be graduating from college.
No, Justice for Children is sick and delusional. it and Randy Burton its founder destroyed me and my daughter. They facilitated to the control by a diabolical, narcissistic, borderline personality disordered mother.
Funny how a devil works. When it gets into a space with a crack in it, it just keeps working and working and working it.
And the family courts do need to be abolished nobody can afford their brand of justice.
parental alienation
I was very pleased to see the topic of parental alienation and parental alienation syndrome discussed in this article but feel compelled to comment that there are really no data available to indicate that this is something that is mostly done by mothers to fathers. This was possibly the case a few decades ago when Richard Gardner first wrote about the problem but my research shows that many many mothers are also victims of this horrible, painful, and tragic problem. I have conducted two surveys of 100 targeted parents each on this topic and have found equal numbers of mothers and fate hrs participating. I have also conducted in-depth interviews with adults who were the child victims of PAS including those whose fathers were the alienating parent. There is simply no data at this point to confirm or refute the gender bias (what proportion of alienating parents are mothers) and to continue to present this problem as something that primarily happens to mothers does a disservice to all of the mothers out there who are suffering from this problem.
Amy J.L. Baker, Ph.D.
author, Adult children of parental alienation syndrome: breaking the ties that bind, W.W. Norton, 2007.