About the organization that started Parental Alienation Awareness Day
The Parental Alienation Awareness Organization ( PAAO ) was
founded by Sarvy Emo of Oakville, Ontario Canada, who learned about Parental Alienation in 2005
through her experience with her close friend's children. Both she
and her close friend were targets of Parental Alienation behaviours.
Because most people do not know about Parental Alienation until they experience
it, the Parental Alienation Awareness Organization was stared to raise awareness and provide education about this growing problem.
Their goal is to educate the general public, schools, police, mental
health counsellors, religious leaders, as well as the perpetrators who
may be unaware of how the negative effect of their alienating behaviours harms
children. Their goal is education. They believe that
with education comes understanding, and will result in lessening
the
emotional and mental abuse of children.
Toronto - A 13-year-old Ontario boy whose
domineering father systematically brainwashed him into hating his
mother can be flown against his will to a U.S. facility that
deprograms children who suffer from parental alienation, an Ontario
Superior Court judge has ruled.
Mr. Justice James Turnbull ordered the boy -
identified only as LS - into the custody of his mother. He said that
the boy urgently needs professional intervention to reverse the
father's attempt to poison his mind toward his mother and, in all
probability, to women in general.
TV Show Parental Alienation - The View - Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin talks about his experience with parental alienation. Alec (
3rd from right) was accompanied by Jill Egizii ( 2nd from right) , president of the Parental Alienation
Awareness Organisation (PAAO) and Mike McCormick, president of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children (ACFC).
A key court decision to grant a father custody of his daughters after the
mother flouted contact orders for four years was today welcomed by
campaigners.
Fathers 4 Justice said that the High Court ruling was a vital victory and
called for more judges to take a similar stance when faced with resistant
parents.
The comments come after Mrs Justice Bracewell transferred the residence of
two young girls to their father because the mother persistently refused him
contact, despite court orders. Read More ..
Courts criticized for recognizing 'parental alienation'
National Post
March 27, 2009
Toronto -- The scope of the courts' reach into family affairs has
long been contentious, but a recent trend in Canada's legal system has
brought a new controversy that has some onlookers praising judges and
others condemning them for accepting what they call "voodoo science."
More than ever before, Canada's judges are recognizing that some
children of divorced and warring parents are not simply living an
unfortunate predicament, but rather are victims of child abuse and
suffering from Parental Alienation Syndrome.
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The 10-year-old Katy boy accused of murdering his father this summer
is now the face of an unofficial psychiatric disorder that may have lead
to his father's death.
Some psychiatrists call it Parental Alienation Syndrome and they say
that's why the son killed Doctor Rick Lohstroh last summer. The syndrome
is basically caused by a bitter parent who poisons a child against the other
parent, usually in cases of divorce.
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By Nicholas Bala, Suzanne Hunt & Carrie McCarney
Faculty of Law
Queens University
Kingston, ON Canada
Alienation cases have been receiving a great deal of public and
professional attention in the past few months in Canada. As with so many
issues in family law, there are two competing, gendered narratives
offered to explain these cases. Men's rights activists claim that
mothers alienate children from their fathers as a way of seeking revenge
for separation, and argue that judges are gender-biased against fathers
in these cases. Feminists tend to dismiss alienation as a fabrication of
abusive fathers who are trying to force contact with children who are
frightened of them and to control the lives of their abused former
partners. While there is some validity to both of these narratives, each
also has significant mythical elements. The reality of these cases is
often highly complex, with both fathers and mothers bearing significant
responsibility for the situation.
Two of the many findings are:
Mothers are twice as likely as fathers to
alienate children from the other parent, but this reflects the fact that
mothers are more likely to have custody or primary care of their
children; in only 2 out of 89 cases was a parent with only access able
to alienate a child from the other parent.
Fathers made more than three
times as many unsubstantiated claims of parental alienation as mothers,
but this too reflects the fact that claims of alienation (substantiated
and unsubstantiated) are usually made by access parents, who are usually
fathers.
Study says such cases should be moved out of court system, handled by
individual judges
The Globe and Mail
May 13, 2009
An escalation in parental alienation allegations is draining valuable
courtroom resources, a major study of 145 alienation cases between
1989-2008 concludes.
"Access problems and alienation cases - especially those which are
more severe - take up a disproportionate amount of judicial time and
energy," said the study, conducted by Queen's University law professor
Nicholas Bala, a respected family law expert.
"One can ask whether the courts should even be trying to
deal with these very challenging cases."
Read More ..
Journal of
Psychosocial Nursing 1994
Parental Alienation Syndrome
A Developmental Analysis of a Vulnerable Population
The American family is changing, and divorce is no small
part of the pattern. In the United States, there are nearly
a million and a half divorces and annulments annually. It is
estimated that 40% to 50% of adults will eventually divorce
. Including the indirect effects on family and friends, the
impact of divorce has ripple effects not only for those
directly involved, but also for society and clinical
nursing.
Many children involved in divorce and
custody litigation undergo thought reform or mild
brainwashing by their parents. This disturbing fact is a
product of the nature of divorce and the disintegration of
the spousal relationship in our culture. Inevitably,
children receive subtly transmitted messages that both
parents have serious criticisms of each other. Read More ..
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Non-custodial parents often face a continuing dilemma, knowing how to
respond to certain mind-programming propaganda that the children receive
from the custodial parent. Every reference to the non-custodial parent is
couched in negative words: "lazy, irresponsible, un-loving, and cheapskate,"
to name a few.
The childrens emotions and behavior patterns that result from this negative
programming have been officially dubbed by the psychological community as
the Parental Alienation Syndrome , and when the parent doing the alienation
has full-time access to the children, the consequences can be devastating
to the relationship between the child and the other parent. It is also devastating
to the child as the child comes to realize that half of who they are, is
a product of that "low life" other parent.
A Developmental Analysis of a Vulnerable Population
The American family is changing, and divorce is no small
part of the pattern. In the United States, there are nearly
a million and a half divorces and annulments annually. It is
estimated that 40% to 50% of adults will eventually divorce
. Including the indirect effects on family and friends, the
impact of divorce has ripple effects not only for those
directly involved, but also for society and clinical
nursing.
Many children involved in divorce and
custody litigation undergo thought reform or mild
brainwashing by their parents. This disturbing fact is a
product of the nature of divorce and the disintegration of
the spousal relationship in our culture. Inevitably,
children receive subtly transmitted messages that both
parents have serious criticisms of each other.
