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The effect of abusive men and their resort to crying “parental alienation” to further abuse women via the family court system needs serious investigation. They are some of the most vicious and dangerously obsessed abusers I’ve encountered.
This current study seems designed to map, validate and legitimate the term. It’s a term largely used by abusive men and their legal teams to force women to interact with their abusers and this is accepted and utilised by the court https://www.pas-intervention.org/uploads/2/2/5/4/22545256/briefing_-_research_on_parental_alienation_in_the_uk.pdf
There should never be an obligation for women who have been abused to be encouraged or forced into a “therapeutic” environment/process with her abuser and particularly not when those facilitating are not acting to protect her from further abuse.
It seems really important that as part of moves to address domestic abuse as part of the Domestic Abuse Bill that an examination and complete overhaul Family Court is imminently implemented to redress women’s unjust and unsafe treatment there. This study will only
Further embed the abuse of women by the court and make the term “parental alienation” - which is a last tool of abuse by desperate and dangerous Men - an accepted and respected term. It is not. There is a reasons these men should not be around women or their children.
And the courts need to wake up and bloody well stop its use by abusive men and their legal representatives before more women and children are harmed by it.
Perhaps feminist legals and women’s sector workers including volunteers and social workers/counsellors etc could fill in this survey to stand up for women against the use of “parental alienation” to further abuse them and their children. https://uow-survey.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/parental-alienation-national-survey-final
