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To: Nicole Jacobs - Domestic Abuse Commissioner
Keep parental alienation in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 Guidance Notes
The serious harm caused to victim parents and their children through the behaviours known as parental alienation, is well documented.
There are over 1200 peer reviewed scientific papers, books, articles and victim stories which evidence its grim reality.
Please take the time to speak to victim mothers, fathers or children; it is critical you do so before parental alienation is removed from DA Act Guidance.
Your statutory role is to PROTECT victims of abuse. We have thousands waiting to speak with you.
The Domestic Abuse Act includes protecting children from harm in abusive relationships. It recognises the harm of psychological abuse and coercive control. The descriptive term parental alienation and inclusion of alienating behaviours, enables victims to self - identify.
It informs statutory organisations to ensure they recognise it and act quickly to prevent it.
This is not a ‘gender issue’. It affects both safe mothers and fathers.
It is an urgent child protection issue and we respectfully ask that you listen to victims.
Why is this important?
Parental alienation is a global issue and many enlightened countries like Switzerland, Israel, Brazil and Gibraltar have rightly made it unlawful.
As child safety campaigners, Good Egg Safety CIC commissioned research which generated over 1500 respondents in the UK.
The findings, interrogated at source by a leading academic ( Professor) and highly qualified Child Psychologist) evidenced one of the worst child safety issues we have ever encountered in two decades of campaigning.
Each individual story where children have been prevented from maintaining a close bond with a much loved parent following parental separation, is a tragedy.
Adults who were alienated as children talk about their extreme trauma which resulted in:
Suicide ideation
Low self worth
Extreme guilt
Anxiety
Drug / alcohol abuse
Promiscuity
Difficulty in future relationships
Lack of trust.
This is the appalling legacy parental alienation bequeaths children who are forced to choose which parent to love.
It is their inalienable human right to be loved by both their parents, when it is safe for them to do so.
According to the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (2019) over half (52%) of family court enforcement orders had no safeguarding issues. No existing domestic abuse.
Countless others where safeguarding issues were raised, were based on false allegations.
We can evidence this and we ask you to consider it carefully, in order to protect all victims from harm and, most especially, their children.
Thank you.
How it will be delivered
Via all social media platforms and groups who support victim mothers and fathers.
