Canada: Gender bias evident in parental alienation cases

Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2009-03-30 21:31

Article here. Excerpt:

'JUSTICE REPORTER — A study of alienated children has found that mothers were significantly more likely to be the parent who emotionally poisoned their children than were fathers.

Toronto family lawyer Gene Colman told a Toronto symposium yesterday that of 74 court rulings that found parental alienation since 1987, the mother was the alienator in 50 cases. The father was the alienating parent in 24.

"I'm not trying to dump on moms," Mr. Colman told about 150 psychologists, family lawyers, mediators and activist parents. "I'm just saying, that is what the data reveal."

In parental alienation syndrome, an estranged parent systematically brainwashes a child into hating the other parent. The profile of the syndrome escalated over the past year, after three Ontario judges ordered that children be removed from an alienating parent and taken to U.S. clinics for deprogramming therapy.'

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posted in wrong area.

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Submitted by Hunchback on Tue, 2009-03-31 14:09

I think this is not enough in itself to say mothers alienate at a greater rate than fathers. The importan tparts of the article are the ones that speak to gender bias in the courts in cases where PAS is involved.
-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Thu, 2009-04-02 02:18