[HelgaDE]

Has anyone here experience pa/pas? If so have you been successful at beating this in the courts? Whats your methods? Tell me your story, please

A very close friend of mine is experiencing this with her 2 sons. Fortunately 1 of her sons gotten older he seems to waking up from the brainwash that his father placed on him a few years ago. Unfortunately however my friends youngest son seems to be having a major impact on him from the brainwash that his father placed on him. The youngest son that I knew (lets call him Joe) would never use the F word to his mother. Since his time with his father he is getting progressively worsen. Not that long ago he was hospitalized for pulling out a knife to his mother. Joe is obviously suffering from the worst case of PAS according to what said on http://www.paskids.com/pas/stage3.php

The courts seems to be failing not just for my close friend but its also failing for Joe.

Just how can you fight for this kind of child abuse in the courts when the American Psychological Association doesn't even recognize this as a real problem according to their statement at http://www.apa.org/releases/passyndrome.html?

I want to help my friend so bad but theirs so much that I can do to help her during this event. It kills me because I truly love her kids. I view them as my little brothers and sisters because I'm the only child.

[sunrise]

Originally Posted by HelgaDE

Just how can you fight for this kind of child abuse in the courts when the American Psychological Association doesn't even recognize this as a real problem according to their statement at http://www.apa.org/releases/passyndrome.html?

I think it's just the term that they don't recognize. Any new syndrome has to be around awhile before it makes it into the official lists and so on. However, that doesn't mean that they don't recognize that this behavior from a parent would be emotionally and mentally damaging to the child. The information in the first link you gave shows that it is. I don't think a psychologist would doubt that this behavior from a parent is harmful to a child.

In court, probably your friend would need to have psychological evaluation of the child to show damage and psych eval of the father. This could be ordered by the court. Your friend might have to undergo psych evaluation herself so as to make it reciprocal (psych eval of both parents to determine their fitness to parent). It is not necessary that the term PAS be used in order for a psych eval to be done and emotional harm to be found. It might be best to leave this term out of her efforts, since the lawyers might get hung up in symantics if your friend insists on using the term. Better just to go with evidence like symptoms and harm done.

[HelgaDE]

Thanks for replying to my thread Sunrise.

That's exactly the problem. The waiting games before it makes it to their list of illnesses and etc. While more kids are being corrupted by their obsessively and mentally ill alienated parent who wants nothing more then to give hell to the other parent. It's like their life mission to make the other parent life a living hell and to do that is to get their kids to turn against the other parent and actually getting away with it. It's quite sick and barbaric.

My close friends ex husband is already in a couple of contempts for violating the courts ruling and it takes 30 days for the ex husband and his lawyers to explain the contempt charges... it's enough time to do even more damage to the poor kid.

As far as psychological evaluation on the kid.. He was evaluated at the hospital and fortunately he was evaluated by someone who knows about PAS and even told my friend that he has suspicious of the condition that the kid is suffering with. The kid and both of the parents are in therapy... I honestly don't think it will do any good. I feel that the kid would recover if his father loses 100% custody over him and only have supervised visitations.

My friend is getting so financially tired of spending thousands on lawyer fees while the ex husband is taking an advantage of his job position and having tax payers like I pay for his lawyer fees.