Response to Cafcass clarification on parental alienation
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.
We are pleased to see the reissue of Cafcass position on parental alienation -- an issue which seriously psychologically harms countless children in contested court hearings.
There is nothing 'false' about the social media post. These are the views of a person with huge influence who sits on your advisory group - yet believes parental alienation 'is a con'.
The quote we use is taken from a public blog for Womens Aid (SAFE) and describes these behaviours as a 'strategy of domestic abuse', which it undoubtedly is.
The crucial issue here is it is gender biased when there is no difference between the devastating experiences of thousands of victim parents we work alongside:
1. Parental alienation is a strategy of domestic abuse - evidenced by Dr Barnetts own writing.
2. She now sits on your advisory group with a conflict of interest.
3. If we do not raise awareness of this conflict and also evidence how her work, which has been deconstructed to show much of it is flawed - tens of thousands of children will be adversely impacted.
See 'The language of deceit, division and dominance'.
We believe child protection supersedes all other considerations.
https://www.cafcass.gov.uk/.../cafcass-reissues-position.../