More fun Parental Alienation
Battered Women's Justice Project is a wonderful organisation, and I recommend everyone who has ever known a victim of Domestic Violence check it out. They have a great post on the subject of Parental Alienation which I wrote about last week.
A sample of the common sense:
Blaming “parental alienation” shifts the focus away from Baldwin’s choice - a hurtful tirade - and onto the imagined behavior of his child’s mother, suggesting she caused the child to reject him. This focus is indeed widespread and unfortunate. Rosenblum failed to mention that Richard Gardner, the originator of these buzz words, self-published his work, and the American Psychological Association has found it lacking in scientific evidence. In addition, even Gardner himself said “parental alienation” was not at issue when actual abuse was present. Just maybe an eleven year old child has her own reasons to reject her father.