Parental alienation: The impact on parents
Dr. Edward Kruk continues his series on the reality and damages of parental alienation, this time on both the alienated and alienating parent.
Dr. Edward Kruk continues his series on the reality and damages of parental alienation, this time on both the alienated and alienating parent.
Professor Edward Kruk looks at the damage done when a child is taught to hate or treat one of their parents with contempt: it’s an insidious form of child abuse.
You should be very careful when talking to kids. Responsibility is an obligation; an availability; an act of listening, taking account. The only time we listen to our children is when we need evidence to correct and control them.
Under both “patriarchal” and feminist cultures, the presumption of equal custody has never existed. Tom James examines the historical records.
We continue the series of Men’s Review excerpts below with this piece discussing the unbalanced financial and parental burdens placed on fathers. – PW * * * The Man Always Pays by Vertir About a hundred thousand men are sentenced for life to the bondage of maintenance orders. Try to imagine the welter of misery …
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I could tell by the way these kids responded to me that every one of them was a damn fine kid just bleeding for some attention, and specifically from a father.
I think most of us know that a man is seen as a loser, and not relationship material, if it is found out that he doesn’t have his own place and instead lives with his parents. The stereotype of such a man is often a basement-dweller without a job and/or a girlfriend, and one who …
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If God is dead, all things are permitted. —Ivan Karamazov in The Brothers Karamazov There is a father absence crisis in society, observes the National Fatherhood Initiative. “According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 18.3 million children, 1 in 4, live without a biological, step, or adoptive father in the home,” it reports. This is generating a …
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Contrary to popular belief, there was never a time in American history when courts treated children as the “property” of their fathers so that mothers had to wage a decades-long Equal Rights campaign to win the right to have the custody of their own children. As explained in my book, The History of Custody Law, …