When divorce and domestic violence are before the court,
the children can often serve as the vehicle for the
perpetrator to save face and maintain control over the
family. Sound familiar?
If you are in family court with an abusive partner, or
abusive ex-partner, and there are children involved, you
will want to know what this article reveals. Here is how
your children can be leveraged to carry out a perpetrator's
agenda in family court.
Laying the Foundation to Maintain Control over the Family
Let's say the perpetrator establishes that he wants to ask
the court for sole custody of your minor children whom he
has also abused, either directly or indirectly. In many
cases this so-called asking may happen even if the
perpetrator is not a candidate for custody.
Now once the pleading is before the court, and typically
for a long time (could be years), the chase is
on—even though a so-called custody battle is
technically not underway.
What is underway is a mission to create a scenario to
establish that the perpetrator (whether or not a candidate
for custody by law) is indeed an eligible person for
custody because:
a) this parent is the only parent left b) the other parent
is crazy or is a felon c) this parent is a victim of
parental alienation syndrome ...or, any combination of the
above.
Most typically, we see counsel seeking to establish items b
& c in combination, as this makes for a more substantial
case. And further, this strategy is often a best first
measure to carry out a perpetrator's mission of eliminating
the protective parent from their children's lives.
Crazing Making Legal Psychiatric Ploys
Now if after psychiatric evaluations, there is no evidence
that the mother (the gender most often in this position) is
"crazy" because the evaluating psychiatrist cannot—or
will not—find any psychiatric pathology, then the
rush is on to find—or create—"the craziness" in
the children.
The strategy here is that if we can't show that the mother
is crazy, we'll establish that the children are either
crazy or going crazy under her care. This is how children
become casualties in an abuser's use of the court to
control and batter their victims.
Now making a child crazy can take days, months or years.
And if there are two or more children involved, making more
than one child psychologically unstable makes for even a
stronger case, even if you are the recognized psychological
parent of your children.
If you have witnessed this legal psychiatric ploy in your
divorce proceeding or a glimpse of it coming, learn to
block it and protect your children and yourself before the
ploy spirals out of control.
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For information on how to block legal psychiatric ploys
used to yank children from protective parents, visit
http://www.DomesticViolenceDivorce.com . Dr. Jeanne King,
Ph.D., psychologist, author and speaker, helps individuals
recognize and end family abuse at home and in court.
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