Feminists and other hate groups are doing women and children a great disservice by allowing "hate speech" that equates Parental Alienation by one one parent as the excuse of "abusers" when most everyone involved in Family Court knows that there are some mentally ill individuals who deliberately make false allegations in court to keep children away from the other parent.

Parental Alienation Syndrome is real and all too common

By Letters to the Editor/Staten Island Adva...

March 30, 2010, 4:51AM

By DENNIS NEWMAN,
TOMPKINSVILLE




Avemaria LaMonica [Your Opinion, March 6] dons a thickly opaque political blinder, disavowing increasing evidence, current developments in her own field and in law, and common sense, just to assert that parental alienation syndrome (PAS) is “junk science” “discounted by the courts.”

PAS — there are other names for it — simply put, is one parent’s turning a child against the other, with the manipulated child actively participating in rejecting the formerly loved parent. While there are not yet good statistics, in divorce it is tragically familiar, seemingly as commonly “American” as apple pie.

Family Court Review’s January 2010 special issue is entirely devoted to child alienation. Andrew Shepard, professor of law and director of the Center for Children, Families and the Law at Hofstra Law School, in the March 11, issue of the New York Law Journal, addresses head-on the political ideology LaMonica espouses: “What is concerning is that the feminist advocates who, in the name of helping women, deny that alienation exists, do a great disservice to not only the many mothers who are unjustifiably alienated from their children, and often by abusive men, but more importantly do a disservice to the children.”