"We Know What You Don't Know" Family Law and Family Violence: Outdated, Misled Family Law and family violence commentary in Australia relies on outdated and misleading concepts. Considering parental alienation as a form of coercive-controlling family violence and child psychological maltreatment requiring specific assessment and … [Read more...]
Alienating Father Makes Mother Terrified of her Son
(Correction) Alienation made "M" terrified of her son and her alienating ex-partner. Family Violence Services and Family Law could not help "M" remediate her alienated teenage son's relationship with her. His father coerced her son into falsely claiming she violently abused him. He corrupted his relationship with his son to make his son think … [Read more...]
Alienation Abuse: Suddenly She Wanted to See Her Father
"D" (identity suppressed )is an alienated father. He couldn't believe his luck when his 15-year-old daughter suddenly wanted to spend the weekend with him but it turned out to be alienation abuse. She had refused to see him ever since his ex-partner declared to him, with their daughter by her side, that their relationship was over and he should … [Read more...]
Response to UN Special Rapporteur’s Call for Input: Custody Cases, Violence against Women and Children
False Presumptions about Violence Against Women and Parental Alienation The Special Rapporteur's Call for Input on Violence against Women and Violence Against Children is ideologically biased against parental alienation. It relies on faulty and false presumptions and denies the long-established evidence and research base for parental alienation … [Read more...]
Family Violence Orders: Should You Really Apply For Them?
In our work with targeted -alienated parents, we have found that alienating parents may allege family violence against them. They may subject them to multiple Family Violence Protection Orders to exclude them from a relationship with their children. Such orders include intervention orders, apprehended violence orders or violence restraining orders. … [Read more...]
‘The Pinball Machine’: How The ‘House’ Wins The Alienation Game
Introducing 'The Pinball Machine", a bum-on-seat autobiographical page-turner about the author, Trevor Cooper's international journey into 'the game' to save his daughter from the ravages of child psychological abuse by alienation. SPOILER ALERT: He returns from near-oblivion without her. Check it out at https://www.trevorcooperauthor.com I … [Read more...]
CLOSING: Research into the Lived Experience of Parental Alienation in a Social Context
Thank you to all those targeted mothers, fathers and caregivers who responded to the anonymous survey and who volunteered to be considered for interviews. Both arms of the research, the quantitative research using anonymous surveys and the qualitative research by semi-structured interviews received a high number of responses. The number of people … [Read more...]
Parental Alienation Symposium Adelaide University 2017
I am thankful to the University of Adelaide, Australia and SAHMRI for hosting the parental alienation symposium in September 2017. In the video, I am presenting to a group of approximately 100 alienated parents, extended family members, legal and affiliated professionals and practitioners who have a stake (personal and professional) in … [Read more...]
Parental Alienation:Evidence Based Reunification Available in Australia
The first Family Bridges programme for Alienated Children and Families (FBAC) has been conducted in Australia under the orders of a Family Court in Australia. For this family, children can now enjoy a loving relationship with the parent from whom they were alienated, for the first time in many years. A team of accredited facilitators is … [Read more...]
Festive Greetings to Adult Alienated Children
From The Parents Whom You Have Rejected Well, another festive season has arrived, another family occasion at which you are not present. This time it is different. We are not setting a place for you at our tables in the hope that by some miracle you might reverse your rejection of us and of your extended families. This time you are not … [Read more...]
