In the mid-1980's, Richard Gardner, a child psychiatrist who testified in custody disputes, coined the term Parental Alienation Syndrome to explain why many cases of alleged child sexual
abuse against fathers were actually the result of the child being purposely alienated against the father by the mother, to win an advantage in court.
Not exact matches
After a case that had been going on for many months
against my
father - in - law for heinously
abusing my daughters (which resulted in his imprisonment last month), my girls gathered up the courage to tell me their own
father had been committing the same
abuse against them.
Wait, so Paterson calls the girlfriend of his aide who's filed domestic
abuse charges to get her to drop the charges
against his aide, but he's bringing up a 20 year old criminal conviction of Astorino's
father?
When the siblings making up the well - known classical piano ensemble The 5 Browns were looking into bringing sexual
abuse charges
against their
father, they briefly considered New York before learning the state's weak laws wouldn't work.
In 1999 Freilich was indicted in Brooklyn on charges of intimidating a witness for allegedly threatening the life of a young woman if she testified
against her
father, a Russian Orthodox Jew accused of sexually
abusing her for years.
«Calvary» opens with a bang as an unknown parishioner in the confessional with
Father James announces his plan to kill the priest in seven days not because he was the priest who sexually
abused him many years earlier («I first tasted semen at the age of seven») but because he is innocent — and the murder of an innocent priest will afford greater publicity than revenge
against the guilty.
In a heartfelt open letter published in The Huffington Post, Mira Sorvino apologized to Dylan Farrow for working with Woody Allen on Mighty Aphrodite despite having been aware of Farrow's allegations of sexual
abuse against her adopted
father.
Among their company is
Father James Lavelle (Brendan Gleeson), a good priest, who has been targeted to be murdered by one of his parishioners as an act of revenge
against the Church for the sexual
abuse the parishioner suffered as a child.
A severely disabled man who was born as the result of
abuse by a
father against his daughter has recently won the right to claim compensation in a landmark legal ruling.
J.P.'s persistence in her claim that her children had been sexually
abused by their
father was held
against her by the Director because she thought the manner in which J.P. continued to act on her belief caused and would continue to cause emotional harm to the children.
The claimant's claim
against her mother was for negligent failure to protect her
against abuse from the
father.
A mother, after reporting the
father for sexual
abuse, was disbelieved and jailed for 3 years for meeting her daughter
against court orders.
Bruce Tregoning represented a
Father against whom 14 allegations of serious
abuse (including sexual
abuse)
against his two children had been made by the mother; necessitating a 4 day fact finding hearing involving several professional witnesses attending Court including a NYAS Caseworker (Guardian).
As the Court put it, the litigation record was «replete with allegations of
abuse perpetrated by Mr. V.»
against the
father, mother and their children.
SB v A Local Authority & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 1269: Responding to a
father's appeal
against findings of sexual
abuse perpetrated on his daughter with learning disabilities.
FAMILY LAW — CHILDREN — with whom the child lives — where there are allegations the
father and paternal grandmother sexually
abused the child — whether there is an unacceptable risk of harm to the child in the
father's care — where the child has speech and language delays — where the child had spent unsupervised time with the
father after separation — where the parties entered into final Consent Orders in October 2015 — where the allegations arose after that — where the child has been spending supervised time with the
father since October 2016 — where the mother obtained a domestic violence protection order
against the
father in 2015 — where an order for equal shared parental responsibility is not in the child's best interests — where an unacceptable risk of harm is not found — where the mother is granted sole parental responsibility — where the child will continue to live primarily with the mother and spend unsupervised time with the
father on an increasing basis
... After concluding his investigation, the evaluator found that mother had a «seriously impaired capacity for reality testing» and met the diagnostic criteria for a «Delusional Disorder of a persecutory (nonbizarre) type»; that the two older children had become enmeshed in mother's battle
against father; that the children were not credible reporters because they were colluding with mother to generate false allegations
against father; and that the extent of mother's enmeshment and role reversal with the two older children constituted a form of emotional child
abuse.
Advocates
against child
abuse, such as Carol Bruch, have reacted strongly to PAS by saying that there is no such «syndrome,» and instead it is often seen as the rejected parent's (usually the
father's) own abusive behavior which caused the child to appropriately feel estranged from that parent, including: child sexual
abuse, physical
abuse, or simply extremely poor parenting.
Battle lines were drawn and it wasn't surprising that the alienation issue quickly became a clash between women's rights advocates
against abuse of women and children, and
father's rights advocates
against parental alienation of the children.
The oldest child testified by deposition about sexual
abuse allegations
against Father....
The natural consequence of [Mother's] conduct in lodging false reports of [sexual]
abuse against [
Father] was the alienation of [V.C.] from [her father].&
Father] was the alienation of [V.C.] from [her
father].&
father].»
Pregnancy and birth, particularly of a first child, is a period of major lifestyle changes that can be stressful for mothers and
fathers.15 — 17 The highest rates of child neglect and violent
abuse occur when children are under 5 years of age, 18, 19 with the most serious cases of injury and death caused by parental violence
against children occurring when infants are under 1 year of age.20
no
father shud b kept away frm ther child, every farthes name shud b on the d / o / b and his surname shud b the childs surname, im in the middle ov a dispute at this very moment, and the law is very very rong
against a willin
father... Parental Alienation needs to be recognised by CAFCASS and the courts as child
abuse!!!
This evaluation failed to substantiate
abuse of the children by the
father or the step - mother and implicated the mother in excessively influencing the children's statements
against the
father.
The case vignette of Mr. and Mrs. C in Part (I) I described how the behavior of their daughter, V, became increasingly bizarre and self - destructive especially after her
father gained sole custody in dependency court based on false allegations of sexual
abuse against Mrs. C's new husband.
Leving also notes that there are many false sexual
abuse allegations that are levied
against fathers.
Research results show that
father closeness serves a protective factor
against the use and
abuse of alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, and hard - drugs during adolescence.
Both custody evaluators and judges are urged to reinterpret all
abuse as PA, and many attorneys for
fathers as well as
fathers» rights groups will push abusers to recast all
abuse allegations
against them as PA..
We wish we could overwhelmingly support the tool, which has some exemplary aspects, but the tool also definitely has some dangerous aspects that can be used
against battered women and children who are victims of child sexual
abuse (CSA), particularly when molested by their
fathers.
According to PAS theory, if a parent (usually mom) accuses the other (usually dad) of sexual
abuse, this «turns the child
against the
father,» hence, mom's «influence over the child should be halted.»
Sadly at home there's been turmoil, including a wrongful death lawsuit
against the touring company that hired Dr Conrad Murray to care for her
father, and 30 - year - old choreographer Wade Robson claiming he was
abused by Michael Jackson, even though he denied it during the pop star's molestation trial in 2005.