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What Can Court Do About PASAfter the article Children with Fathers in Family Have Head Start in Life”, appeared in Sunday Times on May 22, 2000, Great Britain has started taking PAS seriously. Among other discussions people want to know what court can do about instigating parental alienation. Parental alienation is a heinous crime according to psychologists and sociologists. It defies the whole concept of family system. It has long term and short term effects on children, victimized parent, and the family system. PA is a social problem where the child is alienated from one parent. This happens when one parent hates another parent and turns the child against that parent. In most of the cases this strategy is used during the divorce battle to win child custody, or post divorce to cut off the child from the other parent for vengeance. Maggie was a child alienated from her father during childhood. She was always told by her mother that her father was nasty, drunkard, and did not love Maggie. Like other children Maggie also had blind faith on her mother. Post divorce Maggie never met her father. However, she always missed the love and guardianship of a father. Maggie became a loner and very introvert. There are many children like Maggie who are subjected to parental alienation and start suffering from negative personality traits. Maggie’s father who loved the daughter so much was deprived of his daughters love. He became depressed and alcoholic. The poor guy was deeply hurt to see so much hatred in Maggie’s eyes. So many such adults and children are undergoing the effects of parental alienation. Children grow up to be alienated adults hating one of their parents. Although they miss the company of that parent in life but hatred stops him from getting close to him. There is an acute sense of deprivation. Isn’t this less than a crime that a person is negatively portrayed in front of his child? The child is manipulated to believe that the other parent is not worth the relationship. This is misrepresentation and character assassination, but who pays heed to such family issues. The question is what can court do about PAS? Can Family Court come forward and punish the grave offence of alienating the child from one parent. The truth is that the court does not consider PA as an admissible offence as there is rarely any evidence against it. The cases require a patient and in depth analysis to realise the consequences of this alienation. It should definitely be punishable as the other person is being misrepresented in the eyes of his child for no fault of his own. Until and unless the court makes parental alienation a punishable act obsessed parents will keep committing this grave mistake without realizing that they are doing bad to the child by defying the family system. I think all of us should raise our voice and ask that what the court can do about PAS. Why can’t the family court take action against cases where the child is being alienated from the other parent?
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