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- Parental Alienation Syndrome: What Professionals Need to Know Part 2 of 2
- Conclusion
- PAS is an unproven theory that can threaten the integrity of the criminal justice system and the safety of abused children. Prosecutors should educate themselves about PAS and be prepared to argue against its admission in court. In cases where PAS testimony is admitted, it is a prosecutor’s responsibility to educate the judge and jury about the shortfalls of this theory. As more criminal courts refuse to admit PAS evidence, more protection will be afforded to victims of sexual abuse in our court system.
- Parental Alienation Syndrome: What Professionals Need to Know Part 1 of 2
- 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.
- Child custody for sex offenders By Judith A. Reisman, Ph.D.
- Inevitably, Gardner’s sole experimental authority for this PAS theory
- is Alfred C. Kinsey. In fact, Gardner largely plagiarizes Chapters 5 in
- Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Female (1953) to show child
- molestation is normal.
- No reputable scientific organization has validated PAS. Even the
- American Psychiatric Association rejects the scientific reliability of
- Gardner’s PAS. O’Meara further quotes numerous professional critics of
- PAS, typified by of Jon Conte, University of Washington psychologist,
- “PAS is not research-based, and it has done a great injustice to the
- family and the justice system.”
- Legal scholars are also aware of PAS’ danger. To quote John E.B.
- Myers, a professor at McGeorge School of Law, University of Pacific,
- California, PAS “increases exponentially the skepticism of society
- generally about whether child abuse exists.”
- As a further indication that PAS is nothing but pseudo science we
- need only look at some of Gardner’s other “scientific findings.” Gardner
- uses recent “sonograms that showed baby boys holding their penises in
- utero” as an example of such boys’ sexual desire or activity.
- Read more at http://www.wnd.com/1999/04/2738/#GgovIcVkXt9y8Rla.99
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