We continue to see prolific and gender biased misinformation about the serious psychological abuse and coercive control dynamic - commonly referred to as 'parental alienation' - which renders so many precious and vulnerable children 'hostage' in a post separation landscape. Where they are simply not allowed to maintain a...
According to Women's Aid, "coercive control is an act or a pattern of acts of assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation or other abuse that is used to harm, punish, or frighten their victim It is a particularly insidious form of post-separation abuse". Here is why Parental...
There is a battle raging. A propaganda battle as surprising in its intensity, as its polarisation. A battle which has consequences for our very humanity. Between good and evil. Between right and wrong. Between truth and fiction. It is important we take note. The future of our children...
We all recognise the urgency of tackling domestic abuse. Society has come a long way from the 'behind closed doors' scenario where it was unspoken, stigmatised and when police often discounted it as a 'domestic'. Campaigns have raised public awareness to high levels and we understand that...
We would agree with sentiments expressed in recent blogs, that it is essential any campaigns to tackle parental alienation are effective. Too much is riding on this issue to be anything but. Which is why, after a year of research, we are yet to launch our...
Jennifer Freyd at the Centre for Advanced Study in Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University, confirms that a favourite tactic of abusers now has a name. DARVO -an acronym for Deny, Attack and Reverse the Victim and Offender. In her experience, any manipulative character (be they narcissist, psychopath,...
What are we doing to our children? The Children’s' Commissioner Anne Longfield, recently released the first report in fourteen years into children’s mental health and well-being. This report identified serious issues none of us can afford to ignore. It found that one in eight children in the UK -...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrlF4wmETV8 We commend and applaud Philip Davies MP for speaking truth and sanity into the new Domestic Abuse Bill, earlier this week. This included, among other things: 1. All victims of domestic abuse. There are almost 800,000 male victims of abuse. That's almost Wembley Stadium packed to capacity...
Truth. Something we were brought up to believe was important. Truth and integrity as solid foundations on which to build our lives. Something to instil into our children to guide them, like a shining beacon, through the challenges and rigours of life. When did 'truth' become so easy...
https://youtu.be/QHAXjJzd46M We believe it’s a scandal that children, precious and vulnerable, are prevented from maintaining close loving bonds with both parents and wider family post separation, by one parent determined to expunge the other parent from their child’s life. Children need secure attachments with both safe parents in order...
