Make A Difference
“Any attempt at alienating the children from the other
parent should be seen as a direct and willful violation of one of the prime duties
of parenthood.”
J. Michael Bone and Michael R. Walsh, Parental Alienation Syndrome:
How to Detect It and What to Do About It, 1999.
I wrote A Kidnapped Mind to try and help other parents, and to try to make
a difference. It is my last gift to beautiful, brown eyed Dash.
Children subjected to Parental Alienation are taught, daily, via denigration and
outright lies, to believe that the other parent is unfair, uncaring and unreliable.
After a while the script has that parent becoming idiotic and stupid, then evil and dangerous. Eventually
they are transformed into someone worthy of complete and permanent rejection. A
child assimilates the destruction of that once deeply loving relationship through
self-loathing, and rebellion, isolation and crushing depression follow soon after.
This is child abuse.
Dr. Reena Sommer, renowned divorce and custody consultant, said at the May, 2006,
book launch for A Kidnapped Mind:
“Parental Alienation Syndrome is not about the politics
of gender, nor is it about the amount of support owing or about legal posturing.
Parental Alienation is about parents who place their own selfish needs above those
of their defenseless children and in doing so, they deny them their right to love
and be loved by both parents.”
Having already lost one parent and faced with losing the other, PAS children live
every day in fear. Raising awareness of the drivers and effects of Parental Alienation
Syndrome is the first step to changing the fatal flaws in our legal system that
lets it flourish. If my book, A Kidnapped Mind, can save even one child
from what Dash lived, then my family’s struggle will not have been in vain.
Emotional abuse of children is a disease we can cure. We can help children suffering
with PAS.
Other books about Parental Alienation Syndrome have been written, but mine is the
only one written directly from true experience. To get the message out, I wanted
to put a human face on this important issue. Preventing or stopping alienation begins
with knowledge, and the selected resources and links here are designed to help visitors
to this site educate themselves and others about the alienated child.
The Dash Foundation was created in order to continue the process of education, on
a bigger scale. The Dash Foundation is committed to making a difference by working
with the judiciary, supporting research and encouraging legislation. Change has
begun within government and the legal system but there is still much work to do.
All profits from A Kidnapped Mind go to The Dash
Foundation.