Parental Alienation Epidemic in Australian Family Law Courts, Expert finds
Life Insurance Quotes - Get Life Insurance Now, Fast Efficient and Reliable. Protect your children's tomorrow by preparing for their interests today. Life Insurance Quotes Australia
Editor Note: The premise that the Julia Gillard-lead Labor Government relied upon to substantially alter the 2006 Family Law (Shared Parental Responsibility) act, and in the process remove penalties against Perjury and Knowingly False Allegations, as well as removing the Friendly Parent provision (otherwise known as the Anti-Parental Alienation provision), was the insistence, as claimed by various womens’ rights zealouts like Michael Flood and Jen McIntosh,  that False Allegations and Parental Alienation were effectively a Myth, and did not occur at all (or only seldomly occurred) in any Australian Family Law proceedings.
This naive, incorrect and in many regards disingenuous claim has been slammed by many family law professionals, including Judges and Magistrates, who claim that the bulk of the work of all jurisdictions dealing with family law proceedings today are spent on just that, dealing with False Allegations, relating to Domestic Abuse and Child Sexual Abuse, and attempting to serve the best interests of children who have been significantly alienated from their parent, due to the ulterior motives of the other parent.
Interestingly,  Professor Nicholas Bala from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, has found that the overwhelming number of cases of False Allegations and Parental Alienation in Australia are the result of the Custodial parent refusing to allow the Non-Custodial parent to play a meaningful parenting role with the children.
One has to ask why the Labor Government was so dismissive of the issue of False Allegations and Parental Alienation in the Australian Family Court system, that not only did they fail to address this epidemic, but they removed the very measures that had been placed in law to minimise this form of institutional abuse.
When it comes to the prevention of Child Abuse in Australia, Julia Gillard has a lot to answer for, because many future instances of this Institutional Child Abuse would not have occur but for the new family law act, which rewards Parental Alienation and Perjury, and is a significant change in law that Julia Gillard championed and pushed through Parliament in the dead of night, despite the objection of the majority of Australians.
=====
WARRING mums and dads are going to unprecedented lengths to poison their children’s minds against each other, Australian research shows.
Courts are struggling to cope with increasingly bitter family law cases involving one parent turning their child against the other.
Behaviour includes false allegations of abuse, constant denigration of the other parent, asking the child to carry hostile messages and spying, according to a visiting academic.
Professor Nicholas Bala, from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, looked at 74 Australian cases of child alienation and has found a significant spike since 2006.
Only half of the claimed cases of alienation are accepted by the courts, Prof Bala will tell an Australian Institute of Family Studies seminar this month.
The Herald Sun revealed in November that courts were increasingly intervening in custody disputes involving warring parents.
Disputes to go before the courts included:
A MOTHER ordered to let her son talk to his father in private.
PARENTS ordered not to let their children watch R-rated movies.
More than 80 per cent of parents found guilty of child alienation have the child living with them. If alienation is proven, it often leads to a change in where the child lives sometimes against their wishes.
“This (abuse) leads to children aligning themselves with the ‘victim’ parent and taking the side of the abusive, powerful parent,” he said.
Susie O’Brien
If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.
Well pointed out Dave.
Ragnvald is clearly part of the child abuse problem in this country.
She/he encourages child abuse by implying that child abuse or child murder is acceptable if the perpetrator is the mother.
Obviously she/he only measures a child’s value by the gender of the child’s abuser.
Sick sick person with sick ideas.
[Reply]
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/a-decade-of-rage/story-e6freuzr-1226279572475
[Reply]
Dave Aldridge Reply:
February 23rd, 2012 at 2:01 pm
As usual of course only children killed by their father or grandfather are mentioned here.what about children like Dean Shillingworth, killed by his mother, and put in a suitcase and dumped in a duckpond, the child of Gabriella Garcia, killed in a murder suicide, who jumped from the same bridge that Mr Freeman killed his daughter from, of course while he was front page for a week and was reviled in the press, while Ms Garcia only recieved scant media coverage and her actions were described as a tragedy.Donna Fitchett who murdered both her sons, Yeedah Topham who didn’t recieve any custodial sentence after trying and eventually succeeding in killing her child, Heather Glendinning who killed both her children in a murder suicide, but who was mentioned in the press as a LOVING MOTHER, or the child who was recently killed by her mother with an axe. im sure i could find many others As always only one side of the story is being told. The fact is that while children are being murdered in equal numbers by men and women, children are being murdered at 2 or 3 times the rate of biological fathers by their biological mothers. You’re sick, Ragnvald.
[Reply]
Howard Beale Reply:
February 23rd, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Second.
Ragnvald clearly has a “call the cops” creepy obsessive mental illness and seriously needs treatment. He/She/It should not be allowed to post here.
[Reply]
Ragnvald Reply:
February 23rd, 2012 at 3:51 pm
–comments have been deleted as they were deemed offensive and inappropriate for an open forum–
Parental Alienation is a HATE crime.
[Reply]
Hey my 3 kids who haven’t seen me in over ten years… look up & read & understand the evil game that is being played out with your lives. You fight it because you’ve been brainwashed to fight it, you’ve been brainwashed to hate me with the power of laws that are essentially designed to break up families & give a false sense of power to women.
I hope you understand one day how your mother has used this system & our circumstances NOT in your interests but merely to hurt me & cover her tracks.
THE TRUTH IS HERE – KNOW IT BEFORE YOU BLOW IT -
[Reply]
So a significant spike has been found after 2006. Hey wasn’t that when JH introduced the shared parenting provisions into family law which at least went part way in stopping a mothers pretty much automatic right to full custody of the children. No coincidence i think, and no prizes for guessing which gender most of the perpetrators of this spike in PA would be.
[Reply]
Child Abuse Syndrome is also a syndrome not recognised by the Australian Family Courts and the Australian Psychological Association.
It however does not mean that Child Abuse does not occur, only that it is not recognised as a psychological/pathological condition.
It is a common misunderstanding by vested interest groups who purport that the debate on PAS somehow means that Parental Alienation itself does not occur.
No Psychological body nor the Family Court itself ever suggested that Parental Alienation does not occur. It is well recognised that Parental Alienation does occur, as is reflected by the volumes of Australian Family Court judgments who have ruled on the basis that Alienation did occur.
The Family Court however does not see it as a disease, but as a matter of choice.
And to suggest that the Family Court has the highest standard of proof is quite remarkable, given that even a first year law student would be aware of the various standards in place in the Family Court that are built on the “better safe than sorry” principle, which results in the lowest standard of proof of all Courts and Tribunals in this country, which is the Family Court is well known as the hub of false allegations of any Court in this country.
If you doubt this, go to law school and listen to the persistent observations of the distinguished lecturers.
[Reply]
One of my barristers told me that false stories (ie. from the opposition) were not always seen as lies, but ‘her’ perception of the events. It’s true Ragnvald that it’s hard to make the perjury label stick in Family Court matters. You may be lucky if you hear the judge (or FM) say, “I find that allegation very hard to believe”
In the absence of even a ‘soft’ judgement by a court regarding blatant perjury, it is then up to the child victims to eventually judge the parent behaviour.
[Reply]
I truly grieve for victims of child sexual, and other, abuses but in my family (war) case my older daughter has already judged me as a non-child molester and her mother as a “false report” writer..my younger daughter also has overheard her mother’s lies to a friend regarding my daughters’ sanitation whilst they are at my home.
No-one other than my daughters seems to see their mother as ill and that her false allegations have resulted in their father being an inadvertent ‘victim of crime’…..perjury.
[Reply]