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Originally Posted by Quantum Boy
I'm not going to part-dox myself on an aggressive right-leaning forum Parmy ffs
On the rest of it all I will say is; everyone you will talk to will have their personal examples of "unfairly-maligned alienated parent" and that's exactly what's led to family courts being weaponised and effectively used to further control and abuse ex-partners, it's a horrendous situation that's been going on unchecked for a long, long time and because of exactly what this thread is about : the courts are behind closed doors, and people are not allowed to talk about what goes on there.
I could share stories with you of children screaming and wetting themselves whilst being dragged off (occasionally with police escort) for a judge-mandated weekend stay with a parent, and the other parent not only being unable to do anything about it without being arrested, but being unable to even publicly TALK about it without being in contempt of court. Real horror stories that you would not like to believe. And the argument is always that "some contact is better than none", and that the real danger is "parents not getting along".
Hopefully this will change now and some of these abuses of power will be higlighted.
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The one thing that they do differently nowadays here that they didn't do when Gavin was going through his stuff is the judges order a Section 7 report much more readily when parents seem to be at war with each other. It's basically a very detailed report carried out by professionals, extensive interviews with both parents and the children (if they're old enough) and they send this back to the judge with their own recommendations. It's a much better system then just listening to both parents in the courtroom and the judge trying to decide which one is lying.
It is very sad though when parents can't put their **** aside for the sake of their kids but like I said both of them have to do that for it to work