UN finds a global parental alienation industry

There is profit to be made all over the world by placing children in abuser's hands.

Richard Gardner is the pro pedophile quack who popularized the term parental alienation.

There is a parental alienation industry in the US.

This has been well documented by me and others. Here is part of an article I wrote in 2018.

There is a great deal of controversy surrounding parental alienation, including its very existence, but this profile intends to expose the parental alienation industry- court actors, non-profits, and the media allies that carry the water of monstrous abusers- which ignores abuse spinning it into parental alienation.

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“Michigan is providing dads with legal assistance and Montrose County, Colorado Fatherhood Program match up fathers with ‘Fatherhood Coaches’ who also just happen to be attorneys who want to help them with their child support and custody problems.” {Anne} Stevenson said. “Programs like the Massachusetts Department of Probation provide ‘treatment’ to thousands of untreatable, incurable and violent sociopaths targeting their victim through the courts.”

In Illinois, fatherhood.gov money is funneled through the Illinois Coalition for Responsible Fatherhood (ICRF) which is run by noted father’s rights attorney Jeffrey Leving.

“Although groups cannot use TANF money for attorneys, the literature shows that some groups like the Illinois Coalition provides fathers with legal advice and exceptional access to judges.” Stevenson said.

“Parental alienation often arises after a divorce, as one angry, vengeful parent tries to turn the children against the other parent, destroying the loving bonds the children and the target parent once enjoyed.” Leving wrote in 2007, in an article defending Alec Baldwin, after his rant against his daughter Ireland went viral.

In the US, a cadre of lawyers, psychologists, therapists, and social workers, all work together to propagate the term, apply it in as many child custody cases as possible, and then get themselves appointed to these cases to charges hundreds of dollars per hour.

This cabal is fueled by the group: the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC)

Parental Alienation is also big business for the AFCC. “Overcoming Barriers” is a five-day boot camp for families deemed to have parental alienation. The entire family, including the two divorcing parents, is sent into a camp ground with no cell phones or other electronics to reconnect. Often this boot camp is compulsory, so if a judge orders it and you want to ever see your kids again, participation is mandatory. The cost of this boot camp is $10,000. The boot camp was founded by AFCC member Matthew Sullivan, and its board members include AFCC members Robin Deutsch, Peggie Ward, Marjorie Slabach, Jeffrey Solison, and Barbara Jo Fidler.

The camp was featured in the January 2010 issue of the AFCC newsletter written by Sullivan, Ward and Deutsch.

“As for alienation, again, AFCC does not take a position,” executive director Salem told me, “but if you examine the July 2001 or January 2010 issues of Family Court Review you will learn that many of our members have generally rejected Gardner’s conceptualization of PAS, which is where the controversy began.”

Richard Ducote, a Pittsburgh attorney who cross-examined Gardner shortly before his death, said that by 2002 PAS supporters were arguing that PAS had moved beyond Gardner, thereby making a rejection of him irrelevant to the concept.

Meanwhile, parental alienation has been the topic of numerous AFCC conferences: the 2010 National AFCC conference in New York and a 2011 Massachusetts AFCC conference. A 2011 Conference in Philadelphia held in conjunction with the American Association of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) was entitled, “Understanding and Responding to Parental Alienation.” When asked, 98 percent of the 300 respondents at the 2010 national conference replied yes to the question, “Do you think that some children are manipulated by one parent to irrationally and unjustifiably reject the other parent?”

Dr. Silberg, who has attended numerous AFCC conferences, said it’s a matter of priorities: “What I see is that AFCC training is more heavy on alienation and less heavy on spotting abuse.”

AFCC is a global group. It’s no surprise that all over the world parental alienation has been misused in much the same way as it has in the US.

I have already covered this to some extent. In 2021, Megan Fox and I interviewed Liz Perkins, from England’s The Daily Express. Her long running investigation led to significant reforms of family courts in England. She found parental alienation used there in much the same way it is here. She speaks about it approximately thirty-one minutes in.

Megan and I also interviewed Grant Wyeth from Australia. He has studied the courts in his home country and around the world, finding the misuse of parental alienation prevalent.

Now, the United Nations (UN) has produced a report, finding that much of the first world has allowed professionals to take over courts and misuse parental alienation. These pseudoscientists force kids to live in abusive homes while enriching themselves.