Quote From: silencedmotherOne of the most disturbing scandals in the history of our court system has already been investigated. Lots of people know about it but no one has been able to do anything about it - yet.
Around the 1970's, a quack named "Dr". Richard Gardner - who was pro-pedophile - invested large amounts of his time to promote his warped ideas. Just Google Custody Prep for Moms and take a look at their links or articles section. There's a plethora of information about how child abuse cases are mishandled in our family courts- mostly because of Gardner's wacky ideas about children and sexuality.
In Connecticut, there is a "regional family trial docket" in Middletown, CT where the state's family courts send custody cases involving domestic violence and/or sexual abuse. Many attorneys and court evaluators working with those cases call them "contested" or "high conflict" custody cases. However, the custody cases which involve domestic violence and or child abuse are not "contested" or "high conflict" cases. They involve victims of child abuse and domestic violence and, instead of being handled by experts in child abuse and domestic violence, they are handled by pro-Gardner attorneys and court evaluators in an adversarial family court system.
Most everyone knows that when a non-family member sexually abuses a child, the child is usually protected. However, most people in this country have no idea that when the sexual predator is the child's father, and when there is a question of who gets custody of the child, our family court system is a place where attorneys and court evaluators freely use Gardner's ideas of "the sexuality of children" and "parental alienation of 'affection' " to take abused children from protective mothers to place them with their abusers.
If you are reading this and can do something to investigate and expose "PAS" set-up once and for all, you will be a hero. The set-up has been going on since the 1970's when Gardner first began to offer lectures and publish his weird ideas. No one has been able to do anything about protecting our nation's children from it.
Please help in any way you can. Thank you.
Unfortunately PAS is very real.
I am a Noncustodial Mom who has/had gone over 10 years without seeing my oldest sons.
My Ex husband abused me physically and emotionally and it didn't stop when we divorced. He was granted custody of our children and went on to abuse not only me but them as well by with holding visitations. Several years of court battles, false accusations, GAL involvement (one sided), moving and leaving me with no info on my childrens where abouts, etc. made all the matters worse. The courts SHOULD have recognized PAS in that "era" AND it should very well be recognized now.
Here we are all these years later and R. Gardner is still getting no respect for his "diagnosis" nor treatments for the children/families that have had to go through it. =(
