Alienating Behaviours Support Group For victims of Parental Alienation LINK TO GROUP INVITE
Founding/first meeting of our second ‘niche group’* was held on 24 April. Warm thanks and congratulations to the drivers of it – trustees Greg Downing and Ian Findlay. Ian started with an outline of the issues in the form of a Power Point presentation, and this was followed up by questions and discussions. Excellent support and advice were given.
The next meeting will be on 29th May on Zoom. You can join the Support group in the link provided above. This will cover how to present the issues in court. Including how to combat allegations that the issue is simply one of an excluded parent trying to prolong his abuse of the mother of the children they had together. And sometimes trying to destroy the credentials of any professional who claims that alienation has happened.
Register for the next online meeting here. LINK
Why the change to ‘alienating behaviours’ from PA? Because this more accurately describes the range of actions that sometimes result in a child appearing to reject a relationship with a parent and their wider family. Parental Alienation requires a professional diagnosis while alienating behaviours can be identified much more easily. These can range from deliberate coaching to a child simply responding to an insufficiently concealed preference of the parent with whom they mainly live and whom they – very naturally – love, to coaching, threats and worse. It’s the term CAFCASS now uses. Also, because ‘Parental Alienation’ and still more if ‘syndrome’, is added are terms that have been captured by the enemies of Shared Parenting to misrepresent what is at stake.
* ‘Niche group’ is the name our charity uses for advice forums for people confronted with a particular aspect of the struggle for children to retain relationships with loved and loving parents after separation.
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