The history and evolution of

richard Gardners parental

alienation theory
Block the use of this theory called parental alienation
theory protect children

In the States?
1.

2.
3.
4.

Wisconsin lets end the discredited pas

Illinois exposed to pas theory
Minnesota Exposed to discredited par

In the States

Excerpts

58,000 children a year are ordered into unsupervised contact with physically or

sexually abusive parents

September 22, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

How Many Children Are Court -Ordered Into Unsupervised Contact With an Abusive Parent After
Divorce?
Contact: Joyanna Silberg, PhD, Executive Vice President
tel: (410) 938-4974 or email Joyanna Silberg
Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
According to a conservative estimate by experts at the Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence (LC),
more than 58,000 children a year are ordered into unsupervised contact with physically or sexually abusive parents
following divorce in the United States. This is over twice the yearly rate of new cases of childhood cancer.
Experts at the LC consider the crisis in our family courts to constitute a public health crisis. Once placed with an abusive
parent or forced to visit, children will continue to be exposed to parental violence and abuse until they reach 18. Thus, we
estimate that half a million children will be affected in the US at any point of time. Many of these children will suffer physical
and psychological damage which may take a lifetime to heal. The Leadership Council urges citizens to work with legislators
and agencies in their communities to examine this problem, review state agency policies and procedures, and develop
legislative and policy solutions that help ensure safety from violence for children following divorce.

The parental alienation syndrome is it scientific? By Stephanie J. Dallam

The Parental Alienation Syndrome:
Is It Scientific?
by Stephanie J. Dallam, RN, MSN, FNP
Dallam, S. J. (1999). Parental Alienation Syndrome: Is it scientific? In E. St. Charles & L. Crook (Eds.),
Expose: The failure of family courts to protect children from abuse in custody disputes . Los Gatos , CA :
Our Children Our Children Charitable Foundation.
SEE SECTION:
Gardner 's Views on Pedophilia [2]
Gardner (1992b, pp. 670-71) considers sexual activities between adults and children to be part of the
natural repertoire of human sexual activity and suggests that pedophilia may enhance the survival of the
human species by serving "procreative purposes" (1992b, p. 24-5). According to Gardner (1992b, p. 593),
"pedophilia has been considered the norm by the vast majority of individuals in the history of the world" and
"it is a widespread and accepted practice among literally billions of people."
In addition, Gardner (1986, p. 93) believes that children are naturally sexual and may initiate sexual
encounters by "seducing" the adult. The Parental Alienation Syndrome: Is It Scientific? by Stephanie J.
Dallam, RN, MSN, FNP

Excerpts

MYTHS THAT PLACE CHILDREN AT RISK DURING CUSTODY

LITIGATION

MYTHS THAT PLACE CHILDREN AT RISK DURING CUSTODY LITIGATION

Dallam. S. J., & Silberg, J. L. (Jan/Feb 2006). Myths that place children at risk during custody disputes. Sexual Assault
Report, 9(3), 33-47. (PDF)
The Leadership Council is a nonprofit scientific organization concerned about he welfare of children. We have become
increasingly concerned about the legal system's treatment of victims of family violence during divorce and child custody
proceedings. The LC has reviewed documentation from a number of cases in which children were placed in the sole
custody of a parent that the child alleges is physically or sexually abusing them. Many of these children were prohibited
from any contact or provided only limited contact with the parent seeking to protect the child - despite the fact that this
parent had never been found to have harmed the child. In most cases the child's allegations were quite credible.
Some groups have opposed exposure of this problem claiming that the information is politically motivated or constitutes
"father-bashing." Our analysis indicates that the problem of abusers or batterers obtaining custody is widespread and
well documented by research. Presenting this information is not an attempt to "bash" any particular group, but is offered
simply to educate professionals about the extent of this serious problem affecting child safety.
Societal acceptance of these myths assists perpetrators of family violence by giving them custody of their victims and
by encouraging public denial about the failure of the legal system to protect these children. The Leadership Council
prepared this analysis because we believe that society as a whole benefits when the public has access to accurate
information regarding child abuse and other forms of interpersonal violence.

Child Custody: After the Sexual Revolution

By Judith Reisman
Child Custody after sexual Revolution by Judith Reisman
Child Custody: After the Sexual Revolution
By
Judith Reisman
- See more at: http://www.worldviewweekend.com:81/worldview-times/article.php?articleid=4842#sthash.
16GlCjVi.dpuf
Excerpts last paragraph" Male and female judges who award children to sexually abusive parents are complicit in
abuse, in effect trafficking in children. Unless and until the public learns how and why we were lied to by our
sexual revolutionaries, we will continue to lose our marriages; fathers will continue to be made impotent by
sexual deviance, mothers will continue to seek to be sexy instead of sagacious, and we will continue to lose the
civil society that formally offered children largely free, and even safe and happy lives."
- See more at: http://www.worldviewweekend.com:81/worldview-times/article.php?articleid=4842#sthash.
16GlCjVi.dpuf
Posted: 04/27/09
Child Custody: After the Sexual Revolution
By
Judith Reisman

Richard Gardner Kinsey Disciple

Child Custody: After the Sexual Revolution By Judith
Excerpts " This seemingly irate faction has used
"experts" like Drs. Richard Gardner, Ralph
Underwager, and Warren Farrell, all three pedophile
and incest advocates. Kinsey disciple Gardner said
incest was an unsexy mom's fault, Underwager
praised pedophiles in the Dutch Paidika, Journal of
Paedophila, and Farrell touted "Incest .The Last
Taboo," in Penthouse December 1977.
Gardner, (deceased) created the "Parental Alienation
Syndrome," rejected by the Family Research Council
along with the National Organization of Women, the
American Psychiatric Association, the National
Association for the Prosecution of Child Abuse, and
the American Judges Association. Unfortunately the
PAS claim that mothers who report incest are frigid
and jealous is still cited by courts and social services
in granting child custody to certified abusers.Child
Custody: After the Sexual Revolution By Judith
Reisman

Laws | Posted: August 15, 2005

Implications of the Kinsey Reports

on Child Custody Cases
How Junk Sex Science Created a Paradigm Shift
in Society, Legislation and the Judiciary
By Judith A. Reisman, Ph.D.CONCLUSION
Ever since Indiana University zoologist Kinsey began to
weaken child protection efforts by classifying children as the
"partners" of their adult abusers, the leveling of abusers and
victims via language has continued both formally and
informally. Although new statutes are often framed in the
assertion "Children are not the property of their parents,"
there appear to be no official data collections underway by
any institution to ascertain the status of such pedophilefriendly laws. Implications of the Kinsey Reports on Child
Custody Cases How Junk Sex Science Created a Paradigm
Shift in Society, Legislation and the Judiciary By Judith A.
Reisman, Ph.D.

Alfred Kinsey
The Children of Table 34 Alfred Kinsey's
pedophile-based ...
canadianliberty.com/?p=13185
Feb 25, 2013 - Dr. Judith Reisman lists
documentaries on Alfred Kinsey and the childhood
sexualization ... Points discussed in The Children of
Table 34:.
The Children of Table 34 Alfred Kinsey's
pedophile-based research

Kinsey: Crimes & Consequences

In 1948, the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University
was led by eugenicist Alfred C. Kinsey, whose sex research
shook America's moral foundations and launched the 1960s
Sexual Revolution.
The sexual revolution was based on a lie. Dr. Judith Reisman
has spent 30 years uncovering the truth.
Kinsey: Crimes & Consequences
The Red Queen & The Grand Scheme

By Judith A. Reisman, PhD

Fourth Edition ebook available here
Fourth Edition available in print as Stolen Honor Stolen
Innocence
Third Edition hardcover available from WorldNetDaily

Excerpts

Gardner 's sole experimental authority for this PAS theory is Alfred C.

Kinsey.

Reisman, J. (April 20, 1999). Child Custody for Sex Offenders. Worldnet Daily.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=16109

EXCERPT: Inevitably, Gardner 's sole experimental authority for this PAS theory is Alfred C. Kinsey. In fact,
Gardner largely plagiarizes Chapters 5 in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Female (1953) to
show child molestation is normal. Reisman, J. (April 20, 1999). Child Custody for Sex Offenders. Worldnet
Daily.

Gateway legalization of child sexual abuse with parental alienation

theory AND BAU ACT?

bauact parental alienation

https://sites.google.
com/site/standbythechildren/home/bauactparental-alienation-normalization-of-pedophilia
Warning b4u act + pas theory =
Gateway legalization of child
sexual abuse

****Reasons to not allow

testimony by parental
alienation experts
****Reasons to not allow testimony
by parental alienation experts

"Oh, That Could Never Happen!" - Concerned

Women for America - Judy Smith
Stop sexualizing our children! - WorldNetDaily Matt Barber
Time to Normalize Pedophilia: Firsthand Report on
B4U-ACT Conference - Matt Barber
Controversy Over Push to Redefine Pedophilia Fox News (video)
They're mainstreaming pedophilia - WorldNetDaily Judith A. Reisman, PhD
Psychiatrists seek to destigmatize adult-child sex WorldNetDaily - Bob Unruh
Conference aims to normalize pedophilia - The
Daily Caller - John Rossomando

The Danger of Pedophilia Preying on America's

Innocent
The Danger of Pedophilia Preying on America's Innocent
Excerpts " Psychiatry and Psychology Experts. Pedophiles looking to find some expert to condone their
behavior as normal will often turn to the institutions of psychiatry and psychology. For example, many
pedophiles refer to a 1998 article by the American Psychological Association (APA) claiming that sex
between adults and children can actually be positive for willing children. The same article proposes that
we drop the terms child abuse, molestation, victims and adult-child sex when discussing this issue.
This article was later modified by the APA, but many pedophiles continue to appeal to it to promote their
actions. One psychologist, Dr. Michael Werthmeimer (member of the APA), believes that pedophilia is not
harmful to the child. Dr. Richard Gardner, a child psychiatrist at Columbia University, believes that all forms
of deviant sexual behavior should be acceptable, including adult-child sex, sex with the dead, sex with
animals, and even sex with defecation. Of course, pedophiles make it a point to interview and quote from
experts like Werthmeimer and Gardner.11"http://www.truthmagazine.
com/archives/volume44/V44020307.htm

The Evidentiary Admissibility of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Science, Law, and Policy
Jennifer Hoult

The Evidentiary Admissibility of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Science, Law, and Policy
Jennifer Hoult affiliation not provided to SSRN Children's Legal Rights Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1, 2006
Abstract:
Since 1985, in jurisdictions all over the United States, fathers have been awarded sole custody of their children based on claims that
mothers alienated these children due to a pathological medical syndrome called Parental Alienation Syndrome ("PAS"). Given that
some such cases have involved stark outcomes, including murder and suicide, PAS's admissibility in U.S. courts deserves scrutiny.
This article presents the first comprehensive analysis of the science, law, and policy issues involved in PAS's evidentiary
admissibility. As a novel scientific theory, PAS's admissibility is governed by a variety of evidentiary gatekeeping standards that
seek to protect legal fora from the influence of pseudo-science. This article analyzes every precedent-bearing decision and law
review article referencing PAS in the past twenty years, finding that precedent holds PAS inadmissible and the majority of legal
scholarship views it negatively. The article further analyzes PAS's admissibility under the standards defined in Frye v. United States,
Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Kumho Tire Company v. Carmichael, and Rules 702 and 704(b) of the Federal Rules of
Evidence, including analysis of PAS's scientific validity and reliability; concluding that PAS remains an ipse dixit and inadmissible
under these standards. The article also analyzes the writings of PAS's originator, child psychiatrist Richard Gardner - including
twenty-three peer-reviewed articles and fifty legal decisions he cited in support of his claim that PAS is scientifically valid and legally
admissible - finding that these materials support neither PAS's existence, nor its legal admissibility. Finally, the article examines the
policy issues raised by PAS's admissibility through an analysis of PAS's roots in Gardner's theory of human sexuality, a theory that
views adult-child sexual contact as benign and beneficial to the reproduction of the species.

Parental Alienation Syndrome & Parental Alienation: Research Reviews

By Joan S. Meier 1

Parental Alienation Syndrome & Parental Alienation: Research Reviews

By Joan S. Meier 1
The Absence of Research Supporting PAS
Excerpts from 5th paragraph
Gardner's pro-pedophilic beliefs. Gardner's underlying beliefs regarding human sexuality, including adult-child
sexual interaction, are so bizarre that it is hard to believe that courts would have adopted his theory if they were
aware of what he had published. For instance, his writings express the view that all human sexual paraphilias
(deviant behaviors) "serve the purposes of species survival" by "enhanc[ing] the general level of sexual excitation
in society" (Gardner, 1992b, p. 20; see also Hoult, 2006). These sexual behaviors include pedophilia, sadism,
rape, necrophilia, zoophilia (sex with animals), coprophilia (sex with feces), and other paraphilias (Gardner,
1992b; see also Dallam, 1998; Hoult, 2006).Parental Alienation Syndrome & Parental Alienation: Research
Reviews By Joan S. Meier 1

U.S. Family Courts Sacrificing Mothers & Children - Family

Courts Behind an Epidemic of Pedophilia & Judicial Abuse
U.S. Family Courts Sacrificing Mothers & Children - Family Courts Behind an Epidemic of
Pedophilia & Judicial Abuse

( * The article's original titleScrew The Bitch - based on a book designed to destroy protective
mothers - was unacceptably offensive to the author.)

A five month investigation reveals an epidemic of violence and corruption facilitated by Family Courts in the
United States. Children all over the United States are being taken from their protective mothers and
delivered to abusers. Behind this epidemic of judicial abuse are organized networks involved in racketeering
and corruption, channeling and disappearing billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayers money every year.
Insurance companies are being defrauded by medical and mental health professionals rewarded handsomely
for producing quack studies that criminalize loving mothers and protect abusive fathers. With clear evidence
of racketeering and corruption, high court judges and insider lawyers use and abuse the Family Courts
system to destroy protective mothers and deliver life sentences of suffering to innocent children. Rich, poor,
middle-class... No child in America is safe. Pedophilia in the Justice System Keith Harmon Snow Conscious
Being Alliance

Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) and its

Implications for Abused Women and their Children

Best Interest for Whom?

Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) and its
Implications for Abused Women and their Children
Prepared for
Harmony House
By
Kathleen Chow
Masters of Criminology Applied
University of Ottawa
December 2011
http://www.octevaw-cocvff.ca/sites/all/files/pdf/reports/parental_alienation_research_project_final.pdf

Malpractice & Licensing Pitfalls parental alienation, theory false memory,child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome and
malicious mother syndrome

Malpractice & Licensing Pitfalls for Therapists: A Defense Attorney's ListBrandt Caudill, Jr.,

Wiederholt v. Fischer, 169 Wis.2d 524, 485 N.W.2d 442

Esq.About the author: Brandt Caudill is a defense attorney who represents psychologists,
psychiatrists, social workers, and other mental health professionals in malpractice actions,
licensing board hearings, and similar legal matters. He is co-author of the book, Law and
Mental Health Professionals: California, published by the American Psychological
Association. His email address is brandt_caudill@cmwlaw.net."Use of Inappropriate
Syndrome TestimonyAs early as September of 1989 Dr. Gary Melton and Susan Limber in an
article entitled "Psychologists' Involvement in Cases of Child Maltreatment" [American
Psychologist Vol. 44, No. 9, pp. 1225-1233] commented on the inappropriate use by

(Ct.App.1992 ).
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals addressed PAS in the
context of reviewing a lower courts refusal to transfer
custody to the father in order to cure his children of PAS.
The court did not address the admissibility of PAS,

therapists of syndromes that are not found in the various versions of Diagnosis and Statistical
Manual. There have been a proliferation of such syndromes over the last several years. At
this point using syndromes which are not appropriately researched or acknowledged
by the profession is below the standard of care. Among the syndromes which are
controversial and which should not be represented as accepted in the therapist

however, they upheld the lower court ruling noting that this
"treatment" is "controversial, there is limited research data,
and there are uncertain risks."

community are Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome, Parental Alienation

Syndrome, [Wiederholt v. Fischer 169 WIS 2d 524, 45 N.W. 2d 442 (1992)], False
Memory Syndrome, and Malicious Mother Syndrome.,"http://www.google.com/url?
sa=t&source=web&cd=103&ved=0CDsQFjACOGQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fkspope.com%
2Fethics%2Fmalpractice.
php&ei=GYVMTtDGN8LD0AHun7CaBw&usg=AFQjCNFlMt3gGX6BpIUARk5H6MHqbCZnBg
&sig2=_-7aez1HWtSPlpVkXsNWaAMalpractice Pitfalls for Therapistskspope.comAbout the
author: Brandt Caudill is a defense attorney

http://www.leadershipcouncil.org/1/pas/leg.html

Our Children Are At Risk and Their Health Is Endangered:

What Are Their Legal Rights, How Do We Hold the Courts
Accountable to Protect Them, and What Can Psychologists Do?

Excerpts I have come to believe that the change we need

cannot be won in the courts on a case-by-case basis
alone. No single story tells the world what parents
trying to protect their children are facing daily in courts
across the country. Protective parents are losing their
children in custody cases while perpetrators gain the
courts imprimatur to continue to abuse. The news media
rarely cover abuse or custody cases unless there is a
death. Their legal departments shy from these cases,
assuming them to be he said she said stories. There
is an expectation that if the court believed a child was
abused, it would protect the child. After all, we live in
a country that believes in and relies on its system of
justice, so we assume justice must have prevailed or a
bad parent would not have the custody of the children.Our Children Are At Risk and Their Health Is Endangered: What Are Their Legal Rights, How Do
We Hold the Courts Accountable to Protect Them, and What Can Psychologists Do? Toby Kleinman, JD, toby@adlerkleinman.com
Our Children Are At Risk and Their Health Is Endangered: What Are Their Legal Rights, How Do We Hold the Courts Accountable to Protect Them,
and What Can Psychologists Do?

Friday, May 4, 2012

Department of Justice Report Demands Custody Court Reforms Part IIDepartment of Justice report :

http://timesupblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/department-of-justice-report-demands.html
If the evaluator issues a report based on PAS or even alienation, there is strong research in the Saunders study
to challenge it. We can start by asking the evaluator if he agrees that sex between adults and children is improper.
Then ask if there is any research not based on the belief that sex between adults and children can be appropriate
(this is what PAS is based on), that alienating behavior creates a safety risk. Are you aware the DOJ study found
that PAS, including by any other name has no scientific basis? Are you aware PAS was rejected for inclusion in
the DSM-V because it has no scientific basis? Are you aware that the Saunders study found that evaluators with
inadequate training tended to believe the myth that women frequently make false allegations but alienation
theories, particularly those used to separate children from their primary attachment figure are based on a belief
that most dv and child abuse allegations by mothers are false? Are you aware that evaluators are starting to lose
their licenses for using PAS? Do you know if that is because they are in affect creating a diagnosis that does not
exist? You can also ask questions comparing the harm of separating a child from their primary attachment figure
with the harm of negative statements about the other parent. Ask for any research findings because there is no
scientific support for these standard biased practices.

Parental Alienation Syndrome: What Professionals Need to Know Part 2 of 2

By Hope Fields1 & Erika Rivera Ragland2

http://www.ndaa.org/ncpca_update_v16_no7.html
EXCERPTS
Quick Tips for Challenging PAS Evidence
There are many things that prosecutors can do to challenge PAS evidence in child abuse cases:

Challenge under Daubert/Frye. Argue that PAS evidence does not meet the evidentiary standard in your
jurisdiction.
Know statistics and studies. Statistics about false reporting are available through the National Center for the
Prosecution of Child Abuse (NCPCA) or from the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect
Information at http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov.
Know psychological dynamics of child abuse. Arm yourself with information about child abuse disclosures.
Learn the psychological process of disclosure, the significance in the timing of disclosures, recantation,
and proper procedures for conducting forensic interviews.22
Share information. Share your motions, briefs, and transcripts with other prosecutors. Create central files in
the office so other prosecutors do not have to reinvent the wheel.
Write the APA. Send a letter to the American Psychiatric Association23 to discourage inclusion of PAS in
the DSM-V.
Prepare your experts. Meet with your experts before trial to prepare them for the defense expert and what
you anticipate his or her testimony will be. Parental Alienation Syndrome: What Professionals Need to Know
Part 2 of 2

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Courts Awarding Custody to Abusers and Domestic Violence
Homicides Is There a Connection?
By Barry Goldstein

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Courts Awarding Custody to Abusers and Domestic Violence
Homicides Is There a Connection?
By Barry Goldstein
The research establishing that the custody court system is broken and has a
pattern of mishandling domestic violence cases is now overwhelming. The new
book, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, ABUSE and CHILD CUSTODY, I co-edited with
Dr. Mo Therese Hannah brings all the most up-to-date research together in one
place. It includes a multi-disciplinary review of the relevant professional fields by
the leading experts in the US and Canada. The meticulous citations provide
overwhelming proof that common mistakes and the use of myths, stereotypes
and gender bias have resulted in thousands of children being sent to live with
abusers. At the same time recent statistics about domestic violence homicide
confirm an increase in the murder rate after many years of reductions. Many
have been quick to assume the increase is caused by the poor economy, but in
this article, I want to look at what, if any role the problems in the custody court
system are having on domestic violence homicides.Courts Awarding Custody to Abusers and Domestic Violence Homicides Is There a Connection?

Criminal Rewards: The Impact of Parent Alienation Syndrome on

Families
Criminal Rewards: The Impact of Parent Alienation Syndrome on Families Andra L. Brown

Abstract
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' visits are not legitimately seeking protection from
their fathers but have been alienated from their fathers by their mothers. This article examines the impact of PAS on families, its
admissibility in courts, and the role of social workers and other mental health practitioners in custody cases through the lens of a social
worker, a social justice activist, and a mother who is involved in a PAS custody case. Criminal Rewards The Impact of Parent Alienation
Syndrome on Families Andra L. Brown1

National Council o f Juvenile and Family Court Judges A Judicial Guide to Child Safety in Custody Cases

Excerpts page 12 section c

"C. [3.3] A Word of Caution about Parental Alienation34
Under relevant evidentiary standards, the court should not accept testimony regarding
parental alienation syndrome, or PAS. The theory positing the existence of PAS has been
discredited by the scientific community.
35 In Kumho Tire v. Carmichael, 526 U.S. 137 (1999),
the Supreme Court ruled that even expert testimony based in the soft sciences must meet
the standard set in the Daubert case.
36 Daubert, in which the court re-examined the
standard it had earlier articulated in the Frye37 case, requires application of a multi-factor
test, including peer review, publication, testability, rate of error, and general acceptance. PAS does not pass
this test." Any testimony that a party to a custody case suffers from the syndrome or parental alienation
should therefore be ruled inadmissible and stricken from the evaluation report under both the standard
established in Daubert and the earlier Frye standard."

National Council o f Juvenile and Family Court Judges A Judicial Guide to Child Safety in Custody Cases

2009

A Historical Perspective on Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation Joan S. Meier

2009
A Historical Perspective on Parental Alienation
Syndrome and Parental Alienation
Joan S. Meier
George Washington University Law School,
jmeier@law.gwu.edu
2009 A Historical Perspective on Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation Joan S. Meier

RICHARD A. GARDNER:
IN HIS OWN WORDS the inventor of pas theory do you support this?

Excerpts

"If he [the molesting father] doesn't know this already, he has to be helped to

appreciate that pedophilia has been considered the norm by the vast majority of individuals in the history of
the world. He has to be helped to appreciate that, even today, it is a widespread and accepted practice
among literally billions of people. He has to appreciate that in our Western society especially, we take a very
punitive and moralistic attitude toward such inclinations... He has had a certain amount of back [sic] luck
with regard to the place and time he was born with regard to social attitudes toward pedophilia. However,
these are not reasons to condemn himself."
Ibid. pp.593
"Of relevance here is the belief by many of these therapists that a sexual encounter between an adult and a
child -- no matter how short, no matter how tender, loving, and non-painful -- automatically and predictably
_must_ be psychologically traumatic to the child... The determinant as to whether the experience will be
traumatic is the social attitude toward these encounters."
Ibid. pp.670-71"BUT I'VE SEEN PAS!" No, You Haven't.

Excerpts c) I have no doubt that the same also happens to fathers in similar instances - eg when a father suspects
or knows that abuse from the mother and or step-father is occurring and must either bankrupt himself or become a
litigant in person to protect the child

PARENT ALIENATION SYNDROME REVISITED Dr Lois AchimovichNext Step Youth Drugs and Alcohol Services, WA
PARENT ALIENATION SYNDROME REVISITED Paper presented at theChild Sexual Abuse: Justice Response or
Alternative Resolution Conferenceconvened by the Australian Institute of Criminologyand held in Adelaide, 1-2 May 2003
.https://www.scribd.com/doc/23371622/Parent-Alienation-Syndrome-Revisited"
.c) I have no doubt that the same also happens to fathers in similar instances - eg when a father suspects or knows
that abuse from the mother and or step-father is occurring and must either bankrupt himself or become a litigant in
person to protect the child.d) Recognition of the enormous trauma to a child when he is subjected to forced
recovery and when he is told that his mother or father will be gaoled if he/she does not make him comply".https:
//www.scribd.com/doc/23371622/Parent-Alienation-Syndrome-Revisited"

Excerpts ...Furthermore, In essentially every case in which courts place children with (alleged) abusers, despite
substantial evidence of sexual abuse or domestic violence and no evidence of fabrication on the protecting parents
part, it is the parental alienation syndrome that is used by the judge, the evaluator or the childs lawyer to ignore and
discount the abuse evidence and to wrongfully construe all of the childs symptoms as evidence of alienation.

Excerpts "A recent report by the American Judges Foundation states that in approximately 70 percent of
challenged cases, battering parents have been able to convince authorities during custody battles that their
victim is unfit or undeserving of sole custody.
17
It would be interesting to know what the figures are here.US child advocate and attorney, Richard Ducote
states that there has been virtually no change in the process during the past two decades. In fact, a pilot
study in the early 1990's by the California Protective Parent Association and Mothers of Lost Children found
that 91 percent of fathers who were identified by their children as perpetrators of sexual abuse received full
or partial unsupervised custody of the children and that in 54 percent of cases the non-abusing mother was
placed on supervised visitation.
18
.......Furthermore, In essentially every case in which courts place children with (alleged) abusers, despite
substantial evidence of sexual abuse or domestic violence and no evidence of fabrication on the protecting
parents part, it is the parental alienation syndrome that is used by the judge, the evaluator or the childs
lawyer to ignore and discount the abuse evidence and to wrongfully construe all of the childs symptoms as
evidence of alienation.https://www.scribd.com/doc/23371622/Parent-Alienation-Syndrome-Revisited

Excerpts Excerpts "Furthermore, we have no idea what contact orders - and the Draconian measures recommended
by the Family Law Council to enforce them - are accomplishing for or imposing on children, thought here is evidence
that they are counter productive.

Excerpts "Furthermore, we have no idea what contact orders - and the

Draconian measures recommended by the Family Law Council to enforce them
- are accomplishing for or imposing on children, thought here is evidence that
they are counter productive.
38
My experience with the effects of the imposition of a recovery order in one
case was that the trauma to the child was enormous and caused him to
threaten suicide both during and after the event. A policeman involved called
the mother and said it was the worst thing he had had to do in twenty
years of policing. Gardner asserts that such action will lead to the child
developing a close relationship with the new residence parent. As far as I
know there is no evidence for this."

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Why the Official Rejection of PAS Matters
by Barry Goldstein

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Why the Official Rejection of PAS Matters

by Barry Goldstein
Excerpts see link
There have been a lot of stories recently about the release of the DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) which
contains all of the officially recognized mental health diagnoses. The fathers rights groups that were created to support male supremacy and
the cottage industry of lawyers and mental health professionals that make their living supporting abusive fathers aggressively lobbied the
American Psychiatric Association to pressure them to include PAS in their new DSM. Their demands were denied or should I say again denied
for a very important reason. There is no valid scientific research that would support or justify the use of PAS.

Official Rejection of PAS Matters

Why the

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Conclusion
At best, PAS is a nondiagnostic syndrome that only explains the behavior of the child and the mother when there
is a known false allegation.20 It is a courtroom diagnosis befitting adversaries involved in legal sparring. It is not
capable of lending itself to hard data or inclusion in the forthcoming DSM-V.
In short, PAS is an untested theory that, unchallenged, can have far-reaching consequences for children seeking
protection and legal vindication in courts of law.
Prosecutors and other child abuse professionals should educate themselves, their colleagues and clients when
confronting PAS in the legal realm. Part 2 of this newsletter will address the case law on this subject. For more indepth and comprehensive treatment of these issues, contact the National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse.

Parental Alienation Syndrome: What

Professionals Need to Know Part 1 of 2 By
Erika Rivera Ragland1 & Hope Fields2

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Parental Alienation Syndrome: What

Professionals Need to Know Part 2 of 2
Parental Alienation Syndrome: What
Professionals Need to Know Part 1 of 2
Implications of the Kinsey Reports on Child
Custody Cases
Dr. Richard Gardner: A Review of His Theories
and Opinions on Atypical Sexuality, Pedophilia,
and Treatment Issues by Stephanie J. Dallam,
RN, MSN, FNP
Department of Justice Report Demands Custody
Court Reforms by Barry Goldstein Part I: The
Game Changing Findings

"BUT I'VE SEEN PAS!" No, You Haven't.

THE LIZ LIBRARY: It's not PAS: Domestic VIolence
by Proxy at LIZNOTES research on family law politics
and child custody
Disciplining Divorcing Parents: Social Construction
of Parental Alienation by F. Besset PDF SCHOLAR
Parental alienation and domestic violence Joan
Dawson

Department of Justice Report Demands Custody

Court Reforms Part II
Courts Awarding Custody to Abusers and Domestic
Violence Homicides Is There a Connection?
Criminal Rewards: The Impact of Parent Alienation
Syndrome on Families Andra L. Brown
Our Children Are At Risk and Their Health Is
Endangered: What Are Their Legal Rights, How Do
We Hold the Courts Accountable to Protect Them,
and What Can Psychologists Do? Toby Kleinman,
JD
The Evidentiary Admissibility of Parental Alienation
Syndrome: Science, Law, and Policy Jennifer Hoult
A Historical Perspective on Parental Alienation
Syndrome and Parental Alienation Joan S. Meier a
a George Washington University Law School,
Washington, DC Online Publication Date: 01 July
2009
The Parental Alienation Syndrome: Is It Scientific? by
Stephanie J. Dallam, RN, MSN, FNP Dallam, S. J.
(1999).