FNF Newsletter 24th April 2019

Hello Visitor,

Welcome to the third April issue.

In this issue:

As always, thank you for your continued support.
 

With best wishes
 

The Team at FNF

March Against Parental Alienation

March Against Parental Alienation

25th April is International Parental Alienation Awareness Day

Many of you will already be aware from social media that a march on PA Day from the Royal Courts of Justice to Downing Street. It is an opportunity to make this terrible phenomenon more visible so that it can be properly addressed. The assembly point is outside the Royal Courts of Justice on The Strand between 11am and midday when the march will progress to Downing Street. We understand that speakers will include:

Andrew Bridgen MP, Neil McEvon Welsh Assembly Member and parents and representatives of parents who have been affected by parental alienation. There will also be music by singer/songwriter Mark Hegarty.

No doubt there will be FNF supporters there so please join them and make your presence felt.

Make Parental Alienation Illegal - Reminder

If you've not done it yet, please sign a petition to Make Parental Alienation a Criminal Offence

Each year thousands of children, who love both their parents, find themselves orphaned from one parent due to the poisonous behaviour of the other. Children are put under so much pressure to hate a parent that it becomes 'the real love that dare not speak its name' as Bob Geldof once said. It is devastating to target parents whose loving relationships end up slowly but surely being destroyed . It is simply child abuse and a form of coercive control, the effect of which is every bit as harmful as other forms of criminal abuse. This petition addresses this very comomn scourge and deserves everyone's support. Please SIGN THIS PETITION and share it.

Smash the 10,000 Signatures Target

10,000 signatures are needed for the government to have to take notice or at least acknowledge the petition. So please SIGN IT AND SHARE IT. If everyone who receives this email signs and then forwards it to other family members, friends and colleagues who then do so too, we will smash the 10,000 limit and make some progress.

To achieve our objective of ending this abuse we'll also need to keep up our future campaigns, so please encourage family and friends to REGISTER WITH US AT FNF AS WELL, FOR FREE.  They'll be able to receive our Newsletters, progress reports and other updates.

Further Action

Please ask to meet your MP or write to them. Tell them of your experience of parental alienation, tell them how many people have signed the petition to outlaw it and how ineffective family courts currently are at dealing with it. Tell them that the World Health Organisation (WHO) is considering formal recognition of PA and that the recent research by Colorado State University identifies it as both child abuse and a form of intimate partner violence. Suggest that your MP contacts the relevant ministers at the Ministries of Justice and Health to get their response. Please feel free to share any responses you get with us at admin@fnf.org.uk (we will not publish identifying details without your permission).

Thank you!

Parental Alienation - Recent Media

Recent Parental Alienation Articles of Interest 

A case of parental alienation that started in 2012 finally led to the child living with his dad last year when professionals and the court accepted that the mainpulation and hate would not end otherwise. The court report is published after the mother lost her attempt last month to appeal the judgement of the court in yet another attempt to exclude the father from their son's life. The mother had a QC to represent her while the father was a litigant in person. A ray of hope! The Guardian covered the story under the somewhat alarmist headline Boy must leave mother with 'hateful feelings' for father, judge rules.

Allegations of domestic violence form part of the weaponary of parental alienation, leaving family courts having to distinguish the difference between genuine abuse and false or unfounded allegations that are themselves a form of abuse. We hear from dads who have been the subjects of violence, only to find this turned around to suggest that they were the aggressor - attack as a form of defence. New research being published in Canade concludes that the "gender lens" is counter-productive to families and domestic violence is "largely gender symmetric". Authorities such as the police and other organisations dealing with allegations of abuse often demonstrate "gender asummetry" in ignoring men who make complaints or suffer abuse more than when women do. The article on this was published by the Toronto Sun. We have obtained a copy of the research and have requested permission to share it with you.

There was also an article on BBC online (and The Times) about an abduction to Ukraine of daughters being alinenated from their millionaire father. "She is instilling hate in one of the few people who will always love them unconditionally, who is always going to hug them" the father told The Times. "Pappa is bad" said the daughter. Abduction is a feature of alienation, as is moving hundreds of miles to frustrate relationships. Such chocking alienation can affect parents regardless of whether they are poor or multi-millionaires as in this case reported a week ago after the judge gave permission for the mother to be named as the children were suffering significant harm.

Suppot FNF at the London Marathon - Peter's Story

Virgin London Marathon

Peter Pearcy is Running for his children and FNF this Sunday

Peter has four children, two from his first marriage and two from the second. Despite years in family courts he is unable to see two and they are unable to see each other. Such family relationships are unique and irreplaceable - their loss damaging. Peter says "This year I will be running the London Marathon to raise money for FNF so they can continue to help families reunite with their children, please give generously". You can read more of Peter's story and make a donation on his fundraising page. Peter has set himself a target of raising £2,500 and with your help he can do it!