Children need BOTH safe parents to live their best lives.
Janis James MBE
Chief Executive of Good Egg Safety. A non-profit Community Interest Company. Passionate about social justice and uncompromising about keeping children, young adults and their families, safe from harm. Views my own.
When, as a society, did we come to believe that vulnerable young children should be burdened with the choice of which parent they want to be with when their parents split up.
Let's consider this for a brief moment...
The award winning film 'Sophie's Choice' presented a narrative where a mother in a concentration camp was forced to choose which child should live and which child should die. Any parent who watched it, would be filled with natural horror and revulsion.
Yet, every day, children are removed from a healthy loving parent (we are not referring to abusive parents here) through any perverse means possible, by a parent intent on eradicating the other parent from their children's life.
Fuelled by anger, revenge, and sheer spite, they craft their web of misinformation to persuade their children the other parent is 'scary' or 'irresponsible' or 'uncaring'. The end result from the drip drip of poison, is a child who starts to resist contact.
In many thousands of cases throughout the UK, that resistance becomes permanent. The alienated mother or father who was targeted, lives in a world where their children are alive yet they are effectively bereaved. That parent, in the alienated child's world, has ceased to exist.
Parental alienation is real, and it's happening right now. Innocent children who should have nothing more to think about than having fun and enjoying the precious short time before adulthood, are being forced to make that choice.
We are working with like minded partners and leading experts in this field, to shine a light on this child protection issue and raise public awareness. To ensure we all recognise it for what it is. Psychological abuse and coercive (of both child and victim parent) which creates a lifetime of pain.
It needs to happen soon; before yet another generation of children are robbed of their natural familial inheritance.
TOC / OU / OTT Shift Supervisor London Media Centre at Encompass Digital Media UK EMEA
4 年Together you bring a child into this world. Together you support that child. Some may have experienced a miscarriage. That experience many, many, many years ago, when as a husband I could only look on at Amritpal in a hospital ward surrounded by equipment. A would be Father, husband, man, Engineer totally and utterly useless. My biggest fear then was Amritpal would come back to this clown to try again. We had two daughters and a son. A fair financial settlement was Never an issue with me. Try convincing Family Law Solicitors of that. Reform is needed and questionable conduct urgently investigated. People’s reputation and relationships are wrecked.