OFFICIAL RECOGNITION OF THE
RETALIATED PROTECTIVE MOTHER PROBLEM

CA NOW has formed a statewide Family Law Task Force to investigate and reform corruption and gender bias in the courts.

NOW anti-PAS resolution

National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges [anti-PAS] Guide, "The discredited "diagnosis" of "PAS" (or allegation of "parental alienation"), quite apart from its scientific invalidity, 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. "

American Judges Association  Studies show batterers convince authorities that the victim is unfit, undeserving of sole custody in approximately 70% of challenged cases and that in approximately one-half of abusive families, some form of physical and/or sexual abuse of children exists.

Model Code of the Family Violence Project, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCFCJ, 1998) "rebuttable presumption that it is detrimental to the child, not in the best interest of the child to be placed in sole custody, joint legal custody, or joint physical custody with the perpetrator of family violence"

Beware of Family Court: What Victims and Advocates Should Know, Women's Justice Center