Have you been psychologically, physically or financially abused by the co-parent of your child or children? Have you been in Family Court?
We are studying relationship abuse, family characteristics and Family Court outcomes and are seeking adults over age 25, who have been separated at least 3 months, who experienced relationship abuse, and who have children from that relationship who are under 16. Volunteers will provide informed consent, complete questionnaires and agree to one 90 minute interview. Participants will be provided with a $20 Target Gift Card as a thank you for participation.
Call Liane Leedom, M.D. 203 615-1633 for more information.
Please contact me ASAP at 203-770-0318 or PASIntervention@aol.com or Info@PAS-Intervention.com
ReplyDeleteI do the work I do as a volunteer because of the permanent damages to my husband's relationship with his children by his ex. For more information on my Tax Exempt Charity work on PAS, please go to www.PAS-Intervention.com
There you will be able to read the first 6 chapters of my book, "Where Did I Go Wrong? How Did I Miss The Signs? Dealing with hostile parenting and parental alienation" You will also have access to import tools and information that I have and others have developed.
In addition, Chapter 3 of my book is the research work I have done that proves PAS is domestic violence in the form of psychological abuse. It is being used to assist in getting PAS into the DSM.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Joan T. Kloth-Zanard
I'm sure you are very sincere in the work that you are doing. However, Richard Gardiner, who was the person who initially defined PAS, did not provide a legitimate scientific basis for the syndrome which would justify its admission into the DSM. Also, should this syndrome exist, how can you differentiate it from purely criminal behavior. Just because behavior is wrong, this doesn't make it a form of mental illness which would justify its inclusion in the DSM. Finally, what steps are you and your group taking to make sure that so called PAS doesn't end up being used improperly against protective mothers as it is being used now?
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ReplyDeleteI'm not a candidate for your study but I did want to take a second and introduce myself. I'm Mike Jeffries, author of A Family's Heartbreak: A Parent's Introduction to Parental Alienation.
Thank you for your efforts to raise awareness of an issue that had been neglected for far too long. If you're interested, I'm happy to have a short conversation and possibly refer you to others, both professionals and litigants, with experience in Connecticut family court system. You can reach me through our website at mike@afamilysheartbreak.com.
Good luck and please keep me posted on your work.
Best,
mike jeffries
Stamford, Connecticut
I'd be interested in your comments on how father's rights groups and abusive men use PAS as a means to take custody from their ex wives and torture and abuse their ex wives and children not only during the pendente lite period, but well beyond that.
ReplyDeleteI have to laugh. When I told the GAL in my case,"I'm being abused." she said to me, "THEY all complain they are being abused." And then continued on to ignore repeated and vicious acts of abuse that my ex committed. But when a guy cries "PAS" that's a reason for the trial court to deprive a woman of the residential custody of her children, even though the evidence that there has been any is practically null, and the mother has been primary caretaker of the children for years. PAS as a concept is practically a religioun in family court. But domestic violence--what is that? Something that happens with blacks, hispanics and uneducated poor people, and even then we can't be sure. I'm not saying alienation doesn't happen. But when trial court shows a recognition of what I have gone through, that is when I'll start worrying about PAS.
ReplyDeleteAnd stop using my blog as a method of advertising. If you have an intelligent comment, or an observation, or an idea you'd like to contribute, that is fine. But otherwise, I don't think it is respectful to misuse my blog in this way.
ReplyDeletePARENTAL ALIENATION IS NOT A MENTAL ILLNESS, IT IS MERELY PURE SPITE AND VINDICTIVENESS
ReplyDeleteI have never been one to excuse damaging if not criminal behavior as founded in some sort of mental illness.
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