Parental Alienation as part of the Domestic Abuse ACT 2021 The new Domestic Abuse Act 2021 is a landmark piece of legislation intended to protect all citizens throughout England. Importantly the Act recognises children as victims in their own right and underlines just how critical it is...
Watching the Mad Men series on Amazon Prime - the fictional story of an advertising agency in the 1950's - underlines just how much progress we have made as a society in the last seventy years.Undoubtedly patriarchal and sexist - female characters are either stay-at-home...
This is the briefing sent by the London victims commissioner to Peers in the House of Lords which led to the removal of Baroness Meyer’s amendment to rightly include the destructive and brutal behaviours of parental alienation into our new Domestic Abuse Bill.Please read it...
Leading child safety campaigner, Good Egg Safety CIC, has today launched a new publication to provide support and assistance to parents, grandparents and wider family members who have been emotionally cut off from their children following separation or divorce.It follows a study undertaken last year...
With kind permission from an alienated mother (from Matchmothers) “My ex-husband and I had an acrimonious divorce and four years in court over the residency of our children. I lost and then my ex-husband refused me contact with our eldest son. For TEN long years, we had no...
"I was 6 when my mum left my dad. I remember him taking me and my older sister to her bed sit and we begged her to come home. That’s one of the few times I saw my dad cry. After that we saw her every other weekend.After...
"I have just read Baroness Meyer’s speech in the House of Lord’s debate during the second reading of the Domestic Abuse Bill. Her resonant words reminded me of the important work we did together to bring attention to the important issue of parental abduction and...
"I received a copy of the UK Parental Alienation Study in 2020 and this was particularly helpful and insightful in going over the issues that occur in a breakdown of the relationship between a child and a parent.Some of the evidence presented in the study covers the rationale...
Today, the 5th January, during the second reading of our new Domestic Abuse Bill, Sophie Francis Cranfield from the Womens Federation England will be making representation in the House of Lords for the 'removal of presumption of contact'. On face value, no one would disagree it...
It's hard to appreciate the immense value loving parents bring to our lives when it’s all we’ve ever known. It's so easy to take such unconditional love and nurture for granted. Only now, working in the toxic space of ‘parental alienation’, where a good, safe parent...
