I have just looked at the information on the Dash Foundation Web site for the first time and feel compelled to express my admiration and gratitude for your courage and generosity in carrying on a crucial campaign against one of the most sinister threats to children in our society: PAS.

I, like you, am one of those “passive” parents on the receiving end of PAS. However, I believe I may have managed to wake up in time to save my child from the worst consequences of PAS. There was a costly and frustratingly slow and unnecessarily prolonged trial that resulted with the judge recognizing all the damage that had been and would continue to be perpetrated against the child and, yet, the judge decided to leave the child with the perpetrator parent without granting me even supervised access. I am happy to say that the Supreme Court judge’s decision was overturned on appeal. However, our ordeal is far from over as the Supreme Court of British Columbia seems all to willing to continue to empower the abusive parent to carry on her cruel campaign to destroy our child’s chances to heal emotionally and mentally.

I believe that the children of PAS are ultimately victimized by a cynical and self-serving judicial system. I only wish I had the means to embark on a campaign to bring about much needed legislation to stop the judicial system from using children’s lives as a pretext to engage in the financial exploitation of parents.

- Marcus.