Brazilian Health Agency Calls Parental Alienation Unscientific and Recommends Repeal of PA Law

The global fight over the use- and misuse- of parental alienation continues with this latest development in Brazil.

The Brazilian National Health Council (NHC) has recommended the repeal of a 2010 law which criminalized parental alienation.

The recommendation was released in this press release from February 11, 2022, which I have translated.

The press release from the NHC states in part.

Considering the Protocol for Trial with a Gender Perspective 2021, of the National Council of Justice, which recognizes that “the allegation of parental alienation has been a strategy widely used by men who committed aggression and abuse against their ex-partners and children ”, defines and exemplifies Institutional violence as “Violence practiced by institutions” as in the Judiciary when “taxing a woman as vindictive or resentful in disputes involving parental alienation or divorce”;

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the use of the “Parental Alienation Syndrome” has negatively affected countless families, especially women