This is why the anti-dad crowd is so wrong about parental alienation (Sydney Morning Herald, 4/19/13). Well, it’s far from the only reason, but it’s an important one.
Those who reflexively oppose fathers’ rights to custody of … Read the rest
Archive for the ‘Parental Alienation/PAS/PAD’ Category
Parental Alienation Affects Mothers as Well as Fathers
Monday, May 13th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Attorney: Child Support Enforcement ‘Quick and Severe;’ Visitation Enforcement, Not so Much
Monday, May 6th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Here’s a fine article by attorney Joseph Cordell who’s long been a staunch advocate for fathers in family courts (Huffington Post, 5/3/13). There are plenty of attorneys who advertise their support for fathers, but many of those … Read the rest
Shared Parenting Issue Comes to Canadian TV
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Here’s an important alert from our good friends in the Shared Parenting movement to the north. Paulette Macdonald, et al, have been battling for equal parental rights in Canada for many years. This message lets people know about a … Read the rest
Erin Pizzey on the ‘Family Terrorist’
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Anyone who’s ever been through a divorce and anyone who follows events in family courts knows that divorce and custody proceedings are among the most fraught with emotional difficulty. Where one’s loveability is involved and particularly where one’s children … Read the rest
HuffPo: Fathers at Fault for Single Motherhood
Friday, February 1st, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.I read a lot about the family, parents, children, child rearing, family law, the social science of the family, etc. Much of what I read is in some way ill-informed, biased, shallow, etc., but sometimes I run across a … Read the rest
Report Shows Mothers Control Fathers’ Access to Children
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.One last piece on the report “Are We Nearly There Yet, Dad?”
As I’ve said before, the report is about teenage fathers in the United Kingdom and includes the stories of several of those young men. Unsurprisingly, they have … Read the rest
UK: Child Abduction Up 88%; Mothers Commit 70% of It
Friday, December 28th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.International child abduction has gotten to be a big enough problem in England that the government has decided to start a campaign to make people more aware of it. This article reports on the recent British Foreign Office … Read the rest
One Father’s Victory in Family Court
Friday, December 21st, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Just in time for the holidays, Fathers and Families received the below email. It’s that rarest of birds, a custody story with a happy ending. We see so few of those, I’m happy to relay this one to our … Read the rest
Book Shows Reality, Destructive Effects of Parental Alienation Syndrome
Thursday, December 20th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Linda Gottlieb’s excellent book, “The Parental Alienation Syndrome: A Family Therapy and Collaborative Systems Approach to Amelioration,” serves to take down all objections to the concept of parental alienation itself and its many deleterious effects on children. Those include … Read the rest
Text on Parental Alienation Syndrome Lays to Rest Opposition’s Arguments
Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association will not include Parental Alienation Syndrome in its fifth edition. As regular readers of this blog know, there has been a long and contentious debate about whether PAS is … Read the rest
