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cbabe

(4,228 posts)
Sun Sep 1, 2024, 09:37 PM Sep 2024

Parental alienation fake therapy similar to conversion therapy.

Fake diagnosis similar to conversion therapy. Happening a lot in family court. Big bucks to be made.
5:54 PM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-court-ordered-therapy-that-separates-kids-from-a-parent-they-love-stirs-a-backlash/ar-AA1pntaG

A Court-Ordered Therapy That Separates Kids from a Parent They Love Stirs a Backlash



The treatment the Nielsens underwent is part of an industry of intensive “reunification therapy” that has sprung up during the past decade and is ordered by family courts to settle custody fights. Services like Building Family Bridges, where the Nielsens were forced to go, use videos and exercises to try to break a child’s pattern of rejecting a parent. The child is then ordered to live with that parent for an extended period and barred from having contact with the other parent. A battle has erupted over the approach in courtrooms and statehouses across the country.

After Tori told her story at a hearing with Arizona lawmakers earlier this year, the Republican-led legislature passed a measure prohibiting courts from ordering any reunification treatment that cuts off a child from the parent they prefer unless both parents agree. It was signed by Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs in April. Utah, New Hampshire and Tennessee approved similar proposals this year. California and Colorado passed laws restricting reunification treatment in 2023.

Some legal experts and family advocacy groups say the treatment is too extreme and traumatizes children. Child-abuse researchers have raised concerns that the operations, which can cost families tens of thousands of dollars, are unregulated and use pseudoscience to sway courts into believing they can help kids and parents.

“Children are being court-ordered into costly, unregulated reunification treatments or ‘camps,’ which force them into contact with a parent who they often fear for good reason,” said Danielle Pollack, policy manager for the National Family Violence Law Center at George Washington University, which supports restricting the treatment.

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(Not only a woman’s issue. Fathers are more likely to be abused by the courts as mothers’ rights are generally seen as ‘sacred’.)

Follow up as requested:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19409802

Woman jailed for objecting to court-ordered "reunification therapy" between molester father and children

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keithbvadu2

(40,311 posts)
5. Woman jailed for objecting to court-ordered "reunification therapy" between molester father and children
Sun Sep 1, 2024, 10:36 PM
Sep 2024

Woman jailed for objecting to court-ordered "reunification therapy" between molester father and children

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219409802

cbabe

(4,228 posts)
6. Thanks for posting. Also in op above which is direct follow-up as requested by other du-er. This info needs wide
Mon Sep 2, 2024, 09:37 AM
Sep 2024

exposure so court victimized families can learn they’re not alone and there are some places that can help.

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