Signs of Parental Alienation Syndrome
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Dr. Richard Gardner discovered a new form of psychological abuse effecting families nationwide. He called it Parental Alienation Syndrome, P.A.S, first in 1985.
People guilty of Parental Alienation Syndrome use their children against the other party. There are three different types of psychological abusers: naive, active, and obsessive. Naive do not realize they are doing it, active are doing it under the impression they are acting in the children's best interest, and the obsessive just want to destroy the other party completely.
This is accomplished in three stages: Mild, Moderate, and Severe. Mild stages will feature a child that doesn't willingly go with the other party, but eventually does. They exhibit emotions of superiority over the visitational parent and are generally well behaved. Moderate is a little worse, as the child starts to really rebell against the visiting party and their family. Severe is the worst, when the child refuses to step anywhere around the visiting party.
Guilty parties refuse to comply with court orders and feel they are not in the wrong. They verbally affront the visiting party in front of their children, without regard to the welfare of the child.
If found guilty of Parental Alienation Syndrome, the guilty parties risk losing all rights to their children and can be forced into supervised visitations. If they continue their abuse, they can even spend time in jail.
Children effected by this abuse could end up depressed, alone, and ultimately suicidal. The reality is this effects all aspects of the children's health and should be dealt with promptly.
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This is definitely true, unfortunately many parents don't realize they're doing it.
Did not understand some elements, this being a new concept for me. Can you give us examples?
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Ron2helpu,
Thanks for getting the word about PA out to as many as we can. Maybe your article will help save a child from this abuse.
Great and Informative page about PAS.
Thank you for taking the time to write this.
Hi my name is Danny,I need help Ijust got out of prison because my ex I feel has the worst case off PAS ever.This is only one off many times I have been put in jail or prison and finaly fond not guilty of any charge and then let go.But I am finaly out of monye and need to know if there is some kind of help for people that have no more monye?I live in northern California please if some one can help please feel free to call me anytime at 530-409-8654 Thank You!
My husband and I have been fighting PAS for 3 years. Its so hard to believe my husband and I both work for a justice system so corrupt and abusive to the children. The laws need to change. I encourage everybody to write their Governor's, tell them your stories. There must be something in the water in Northern California, or maybe the prison's, it affects both sides of the fence.
I'm the mother of a 15 year old boy who has been more and more unjustifiably hostile towards me over the past few years. His father, whom I separated from in 1997 and later divorced, has always been abusive towards me, but has escalated and transferred his agenda to my son.
It became obvious last Monday in court in my attempts to modify the parenting agreement to 50/50 as it had been too vague and I had not seen my son more than a few days this summer, that this is a classic case of PAS. Unfortunately, I didn't have an attorney as I could not afford one and legal aid is swamped, and the judge was oblivious to the situation and interviewed my son at the hearing at my ex's request. I handed the judge a note from my live-in boyfriend of 6 years who stated that my son undeniably had all the obvious traits listed on your website before they went in, but he barely looked at it.
The hearing went forward with my son's testimony that I am abusive (!!!!!) and unloving, etc., backed up by a statement my ex husband wrote up full of defamatory lies and statements supposedly by my son, that they had both signed, and the judge let it be entered as evidence and never even looked at or asked about my mountain of evidence that I gave him. Now I am horrified that he is going to give full custody to my ex and his new girlfriend (who testified eloquently against me when she hardly knows me). I won't know the outcome for a few days, but I have a very bad feeling the judge will give credence to all this and I will lose my son forever.
He's already in the advance stages of PAS effects evidenced by what I have just been reading on the subject. The interesting fact is that I have also carried the financial burden of raising my son alone. The father has never contributed to anything but food when he stays with him, some clothing, and elaborate gifts over the years, while I have contributed close to $200K. And the fact is he has the means to contribute, yet denies this and hides his income. So I finally filed with the DA for a mere $150.00 a month in child support last year, which he had never paid, as I am having difficulty in covering the bills these days, and he went ballistic and had not spoken to me since. He was found in contempt of court for this just a few weeks earlier by the same judge we just saw in this hearing, and he has not yet entered the judgement on this matter as of yesterday. The suspense is killing me.
This is truly a parent's worst nightmare.
scoop says:
3 years ago
You know the childeren are the people I feel bad for and they should not have to suffer like that.