Italy Bans Use of the Term 'Parental Alienation'

Is this part of a safe parent movement sweeping the world?

Screenshot of a 2021 EuroWeekly article on the passage of Spanish law banning the use of the term parental alienation

This past week Italy banned the use of the term parental alienation. It’s another example of a safe parent law, which have popped up the world over.

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Italy bans parental alienation syndrome in court! #BanPA

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#Italy: The 'parental alienation syndrome is banned, a historic sentence.” @repubblica @nfvlcgwu @onemomsbattle @MomsProtective @caproparents @UNSRVAW @unwomenchief @UN_Women @momsfightback @JaneDoeFilms @MomsProtective https://t.co/UZIIYtXNix

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#Italy: The 'parental alienation syndrome is banned, a historic sentence.” @repubblica @nfvlcgwu @onemomsbattle @MomsProtective @caproparents @UNSRVAW @unwomenchief @UN_Women @momsfightback @JaneDoeFilms @MomsProtective

repubblica.itCaso Massaro, la Cassazione dà ragione alla mamma: “Illegittima l’alienazione parentale”La donna, vittima di violenza, da 9 anni lottava con la giustizia per non farsi portare via il figlio come richiesto dall’ex compagno. Pd: “La ’Pa…

In 2021, an Italian court called parental alienation “unscientific” and “Nazi like”.

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Italy rebuts parental alienation theory as an unscientific "Nazi Theory"in domestic abuse cases. The court ruled that the theory relies on misogynistic stereotypes & contravenes the Istanbul convention. Europe is rejecting PA as an unsafe theory! Pls RT! dire.it/19-05-2021/635…

Here is more from an English translation of an Italian newspaper from 2021.

After the sentence 13274 of 2019 with which the Cassation established that the exclusive custody of a minor to a parent cannot be based only on the diagnosis of parental alienation syndrome (pas) or 'malevolent mother' syndrome, by the Supreme Court comes another verdict intended to make jurisprudence in the disavowal of what has been defined by many as an 'unscientific construct', which however continues to be used in the courts to remove children from their mothers.

This time the Supreme Court, with an order, pronounces itself to annul a decree of the Court of Appeal of Venice of December 2019 which established the super-exclusive custody of Ruth's father (the name is invented, ed), the child taken alone 6 years from Patricia (the name is invented, ed) on the basis of a first provision of the Court of Treviso that followed the conclusions of the second Ctu (Technical consultant of the office, ed), accusing the woman of being a 'malevolent mother' . An order, the 13217 of 2021, which, for the lawyer Antonio Voltaggio, Patricia's lawyer, "is an almost fatal blow to the pas, which is compared to a Nazi theory".

"The Territorial Court - reads the ordinance - referred to 'serious repercussions and effects on the minor', to 'wicked conduct' by the mother without however indicating and specifying them, as well as behavior 'marked by serious deficiencies in parenting with will aimed at estranging the minor from the father '[…] by failing to clarify what were the specific prejudices for the psycho-physical development of the minor, however without considering the possible consequences of a sudden abduction of the minor from the mother ”.

The Italian decision comes a month after a health agency in Brazil also recommended banning its use. Part of a press release at the time stated.

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.