Amend the Domestic Abuse Bill!

I have never seen such unanimous comments on a blog; they are nothing like sport or politics, which have much disagreement. They are are not taking a legalistic approach to the matter, even though the issue is about new law touching parenting. It is a moral issue about children, which is relevant because it is abuse mainly in the home, which is not being addressed, prevented, or cured. In the first three weeks of the petition 668 reasons were written (only two off the mark). I have gone through all the comments on the petition, having never seen such a one-sided set, written by both genders, different races, various nationalities, and observers or those involved. There are many alienated ex-children, parents, and grandparents here: it could happen to you! e.g.                         'claire cole

• 1 week ago
• This is not right and I've seen many females doing this to decent Dads'and the following word analysis reveals the whole thrust:

allege 8x, accuse 2x, false 10x, against 18x, stop x44, law 19x, legal 9x, court 65x, corrupt 10x, CAFCASS 6x, social 10x, just 27x, equal 12x, fair 18x, family 93x, separate 12x, contact 20x, adult 16x, child 482x, son 54x, daughter x44, parent 333, mother 71x, mum 8, father 45x, dad 25x, gender 8x, system 58x, right 57x, wrong 15x, see 105x, hear 23x, not 105x, n't 52x, love 74x, safe 32x, protect 19x, care 19x, weapon (child as) 14x, abuse 181x, suffer 39x, damage 32x, harm 25x, hurt 18x, manipulate 14x, feel 15x, cruel 6x, hell 10x, emotion 33x, personal 10x, psychology x17, mental 33x, alienate 141x, crime 15x, victim 29x, perpetrate 3x, truth 15x, life/live 66x, long 23x, need 102x, should 64, must 19x, ought 6x.

These are the immediate contributions of a cross-section of untutored men and women, but now there is a large body of research into how children can be maltreated, recognized by NICE https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng76/chapter/About-this-guideline, the website of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS) https://www.cafcass.gov.uk/grown-ups/parents-and-carers/divorce-and-separation/parental-alienation/, and the World Health Organization in its revised classification of diseases, ICD-11:

QE52.0 Caregiver-child relationship problem

Substantial and sustained dissatisfaction within a caregiver-child relationship associated with significant disturbance in functioning.

Matching Terms: parent-child relationship problem,

• Caregiver-child relationship problem with current parent or caregiver
• Caregiver-child relationship problem with former parent or caregiver.

Certain feminist NGOs are trying to remove it. However I am now shocked to see that there is not a single white male, or expert in child psychology, in the 15 posts of senior management and board of CAFCASS. Please support Philip Davies' (MP for Shipley) tabled amendments to the tendentious Domestic Abuse Bill (which will undoubtedly be enacted in some form).

House of Commons

NOTICES OF AMENDMENTS

given up to and including Tuesday 28 April 2020                       

Davies is trying:

• to specify what constitutes domestic abuse,
• to remove economic abuse except by a carer or gambler, inject gender-neutrality, and
• to include Parental Alienation, false allegations of domestic abuse, and preventing child contact.           

“(4A)  “Psychological, emotional or other abuse” includes but is not limited to—

• (a)  Parental Alienation, or
• (b)   False allegations of domestic abuse by A against B, or
• (c)   A deliberately preventing B having contact with their child or children for no good reason.”

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment gives specific examples of domestic abuse – parental alienation, false allegations 

of domestic abuse and the prevention of contact with a parent for no good reason.

Philip Davies

“(4B)   “Parental Alienation” is defined as a child’s resistance or hostility towards parent B which is not justified and is the result of psychological manipulation by parent A.”

       Please sign the petition! https://chng.it/JBdXhdG9 via @UKChange

[11:06, 23/06/2020] Ben Knighton

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