Parental and familial alienation

What it asks

What the petitioner did first

1. 3 Sep 2020
   Public Petitions Committee

   New Petitions
   1 mention

1. Scotland63 59.4%
2. England16 15.1%
3. United Kingdom15 14.2%
4. Ireland5 4.7%
5. Wales2 1.9%
6. United States2 1.9%
7. Australia2 1.9%
8. Netherlands1 0.9%

1. Samantha Kerr 22 Jan 2020
   Parental & Familial Alienation and Domestic Abuse including psychological coercive control of children by the abuser and third parties are intrinsically linked and the home and those closely connected to the child can be the very source and trigger for Children's Mental Health issues.
2. Samantha Kerr 22 Jan 2020
   Children who are in an alienated position or who are at risk of this are very likely to want someone to intervene on their behalf.
3. Salifu Joof 22 Jan 2020
   Let me know anything or update me
4. Samantha Kerr 23 Jan 2020
   Parental and familial alienation is no respecter of gender.
5. Samantha Kerr 25 Jan 2020
   There are good parents and bad parents:
   
   There are abusive men,
   There are abusive women,
   There are men who alienate,
   There are women who alienate,
   
   There are men that falsely accuse,
   There are women who falsely accuse,
   
   No wonder kids grow up with mental health problems!
   Its our job to stop the abuse
6. Lynn Watson 29 Jan 2020
   a family member has been severely alienated from me, my family & friends. Nobody 'official' is the least bit interested
   - school made things worse. Social work say school will deal with it. GP has 'never heard of parental alienation'. It's horribly real & causing long-term term trauma to children...
7. Samantha Cummins 31 Jan 2020
   Parental alienation shouldn't be happening. No matter of gender.
8. Karan Simson 6 Feb 2020
   Parents using their children against living and caring grandparents as pawns are creating adverse childhood experiences and trauma .
9. Tracy Ord 6 Feb 2020
   Lets do something about this Scotland
   Parent alienation and family alienation is on the rise Fathers has less rights than animals
10. Steve ord 6 Feb 2020
    Lets get parents and family the help they need
11. Andy Delaney 6 Feb 2020
    It's the kids who are damaged parental alienation is abuse
12. Marie Toolan 6 Feb 2020
    This should be the case all over!!!
13. Craig heaney 6 Feb 2020
    Disgusting that the government allow this to happen especially when the absent parent has to.pay so much to.a child they cant see.
14. Lillian Cummins 7 Feb 2020
    Bout time this awful venomous situation is addressed and dealt with, all parents should have by law 50 50 access to their children and their upbringing, the injustice is immense and unless it is proved a person is a risk to their children then this alienation should be dealt with by law, the costs of parents going to court is extortionate and help should be available to arbitrate in disputes and both parties by law have to attend or get arrested, instead of dragging on for years through courts and having to pay huge legal costs, just get the parents sat down and sort out visitation agreements, that is what is best for the children
15. Dr Will Kay 13 Feb 2020
    Parental Alienation is absolutely out of control in Scotland. The refusal of the Scottish Government to recognise it places Scotland as a joke nation in the eyes of the rest of the developed world, and the developing world where it is recognised and already legislated as a criminal offence in many countries. It is totally destructive and detrimental to the wellbeing of the children subjected to it
    - and it is a clear instance of the one of the worst forms of psychological child abuse!
16. Joseph Mandava 13 Feb 2020
    Parental Alienation breeds a generation of damaged children. If we are serious about tackling crime, mental health, suicide among others, this problem must be addressed soon rather than later.
17. Salifu Joof 13 Feb 2020
    Please help to stop family alienation
18. Ken Thomson 15 Feb 2020
    If you have never heard of Parental Alienation (PA) these are some reasons why
    Family law cases are heard in private recorded on camera to protect the privacy of the family. Only officers of the court, the parties to the case, legal representation, witnesses, expert witnesses etc. will be in the courtroom while the case is being heard.
19. Samantha Kerr 15 Feb 2020
    False allegations of domestic abuse are often used to initiate and coverup Parental Alienation in a relationship breakdown.
    Parental Alienators who make false allegations and perpetrate PA do not want PA recognised as they may be prosecuted in future for offences.
    Parental Alienation can be very subtle & often the perpetrator comes across as the Victim and a Good Parent.
    This ensures the State Departments inability to cope with complexity of PA.
20. Samantha Kerr 16 Feb 2020
    IT IS WELL KNOWN in this field that generic therapies fail alienated children and families and that adapted therapies that fit the dynamic are those that demonstrate clear resolution of the psychological splitting that underpins parental alienation.
21. Samantha Kerr 16 Feb 2020
    Therefore case specific models of commissioned intervention are those that are adapted to the therapy requirements of the child and family. To do otherwise is to risk further harming already abused children and parents.
22. Som Khare 17 Feb 2020
    Parental Alienation should be recognised by the judiciary across the world as a crime on children and adequate measures should be adopted to avoid it.
23. Martin Baker 28 Feb 2020
    Parental Alienation is the single biggest threat to the psychological and emotional health of our nation's children.
    Quite simply parental alienation is child abuse. And it rips families apart. It is non gender specific in that it can be perpetrated by both women and men, both Mums and Dads.
    Children alienated and separated from a parent often then become alienated in turn from that parents family, one half of their own family.
    In my personal experience its not fit for purpose. The Scottish Parliament also needs to recognise that parental alienation can involve the alienating parent using false allegations of abuse or domestic violence against the other parent to coercively control the alienated parent. Womens Aid don't accept this fact, even when an alienated Mother is coercively controlled by an alienating Father. Parental Alienation needs to be recognised for the severe form of psychological and emotional abuse it is. Now.