Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Petition for a national Safe Child Act safe child act 2012


Petition for a national Safe Child Act
safe child act 2012 
Petition for a national Safe Child Act
safe child act 2012 
The heart of the proposal is the requirement that professionals used to provide expertise and advice to the court are knowledgeable about the five subjects required for an understanding of domestic violence. These are:
1. Knowing what behaviors are associated with higher risk of lethality or injury.
2. Domestic violence dynamics
3. The effects of domestic violence on children.
4. Recognizing domestic violence
5. Batterer narratives.
With these provisions the courts can stop sending children to live with dangerous abusers. Instead of pressuring mothers to cooperate with their abusers they can be using their power and authority to require him to stop his abuse if he wants to have a relationship with the children. It is important for legislators and court professionals to understand that children do not need both parents equally. They need the safe parent more than the abusive one and their primary attachment figure more than their other parent. It is certainly high time the courts start making decisions that are truly based on what is really in the best interests of the children. 
by Barry Goldstein

Saturday, May 5, 2012

PETITION: It is time to stop tragic theory use in family court


PETITION: It is time to stop tragic theory use in family court

To: Families, communities, citizens, parents, States, family courts , ext.

I hereby petition for an immediate federal investigation into all case's of inappropriate syndrome use (parental alienation theory, false memory theory,,ext.) where children may have been placed in harm's way with inappropriate syndrome use.

An immediate de-funding of all agency's, organization's, non-profits, and not for profit's that were derived out of inappropriate syndrome use or for inappropriate syndrome therapy aka deprogramming centers, supervised visitation centers, gals, ext.
Including a reversal of all bills and laws based on inappropriate syndrome's.

And the immediate implementation of the National safe child act by Barry Goldstein to assure no family suffer again from these tragic theory's.
It is time to stop tragic theory use in family court
http://www.causes.com/causes/659087-safe-child-act-2012/actions/1649101
There are children and families that have been placed in harms way with inappropriate Syndrome use and every minute count's. 
There lives have been placed in harms way by tragic theory use . 
It is time to stop tragic theory use in family court please sign and spread the word for the many families affected by this thank you 

Use of Inappropriate Syndrome Testimony 
As early as September of 1989 Dr. Gary Melton and Susan Limber in an article entitled "Psychologists' Involvement in Cases of Child Maltreatment" [American Psychologist Vol. 44, No. 9, pp. 1225-1233] commented on the inappropriate use by therapists of syndromes that are not found in the various versions of Diagnosis and Statistical Manual. There have been a proliferation of such syndromes over the last several years. At this point using syndromes which are not appropriately researched or acknowledged by the profession is below the standard of care. Among the syndromes which are controversial and which should not be represented as accepted in the therapist community are Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome, Parental Alienation Syndrome, [Wiederholt v. Fischer 169 WIS 2d 524, 45 N.W. 2d 442 (1992)], False Memory Syndrome, and Malicious Mother Syndrome. 
http://kspope.com/ethics/malpractice.php 

Published February 23, 2007 
The Truth About Parental Alienation 
by Irene Weiser 
The truth about parental alienation, custody and abuse. 
Proponents of Parental Alienation portray parental alienation as a destructive family dynamic, usually manifesting during custody battles, in which one parent purportedly turns the child’s sentiments against the other parent. Failure to recognize and correct this dynamic by ensuring that the child has a relationship with both parents, they claim, will cause great harm to the child. 
Indeed, nothing can be further from the truth. Parental Alienation is a discredited, pseudo-psychological theory whose application in custody determinations has caused great harm to children. 
http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/custody-abuse/parental-alienation/the-truth-about-parental-alienation 


Parental Alienation Syndrome: What Professionals Need to Know Part 1 of 2 

By Erika Rivera Ragland1 & Hope Fields2 
Excerpts 
Conclusion 

At best, PAS is a nondiagnostic “syndrome” that only explains the behavior of the child and the mother when there is a known false allegation.20 It is a courtroom diagnosis befitting adversaries involved in legal sparring. It is not capable of lending itself to hard data or inclusion in the forthcoming DSM-V. 

In short, PAS is an untested theory that, unchallenged, can have far-reaching consequences for children seeking protection and legal vindication in courts of law. 

Prosecutors and other child abuse professionals should educate themselves, their colleagues and clients when confronting PAS in the legal realm. Part 2 of this newsletter will address the case law on this subject. For more in-depth and comprehensive treatment of these issues, contact the National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse. 


National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Rejects PAS 
September 11, 2006 
The theory positing the existence of "PAS" has been discredited by the scientific community and hence fails to meet Daubert and Frye standards and should be ruled inadmissible. Quite apart from its scientific invalidity, PAS inappropriately asks the court to assume that the children's behaviors and attitudes toward the parent who claims to be "alienated" have no grounding in reality. It also diverts attention away from the behaviors of the abusive parent, who may have directly influenced the children's responses by acting in violent, disrespectful, intimidating, humiliating and/or discrediting ways toward the children themselves, or the children's other parent. 
http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/custody-abuse/parental-alienation/national-council-of-juvenile-and-family-court-judges-rejects-pas 

"Using Saunders’ Report to Protect Children Excerpts section "Legal Representation," 
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