lostdad

I hope I have proved my credentials in objecting to the use of unregulated experts since 2019. If any court acted on her 'diagnosis' alone then that court judgment should indeed be overturned. Judges make findings about allegations, be they with regard to allegations of physical or sexual abuse or alienating behaviour. It is not for Gill or any other expert to 'find' that abuse etc happened, that is the court's role. Something has indeed gone very wrong if allegations of serious abuse were not assessed and determined by the court. But to claim, as the Commissioner appears to do, that parental alienation does not exist, is simply wrong.

There is no ‘diagnosis’. The issue is a child refuses to see a parent. If there is no obvious reason such as abuse, then the courts need to examine what is going on. Is one parent manipulating the child against the other? It happens. Men and women do it. Psychologists can be useful in offering suggestions for a way forward but there is no ‘diagnosis’ of parental alienation - just sadly infinite ways that relationships go sour and children are used as weapons against the other parent.