American Mothers Political Party: richard warshak

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iolence advocates involved were scratching our head, wondering WTF!  We all searched and finally found a comment on Rights for Mothers, specifically on a post that was about a Kansas mother who had her children taken…yes, the father was making claims of “PAS” and has managed to keep the children from their mother for almost a year now by the way.  The comment was left by another victim of Judge Patrick Walters, the Kansas mother’s judge.  Since the blogger from Rights for Mothers doesn’t CENSOR comments that have to do with a post, the commenter was allowed to have his say.  Something that Warshak won’t do.  Here are the two comments:

Many of the domestic violence advocates involved were scratching our head, wondering WTF!  We all searched and finally found a comment on Rights for Mothers, specifically on a post that was about a Kansas mother who had her children taken…yes, the father was making claims of “PAS” and has managed to keep the children from their mother for almost a year now by the way.  The comment was left by another victim of Judge Patrick Walters, the Kansas mother’s judge.  Since the blogger from Rights for Mothers doesn’t CENSOR comments that have to do with a post, the commenter was allowed to have his say.  Something that Warshak won’t do.  Here are the two comments:

“In fact, one website claims a conspiracy of Masonic judges who, in every family court across North America (I am not exaggerating), automatically give custody to pedophiliac fathers who in turn pimp their children to pedophiliac members of the Illuminati (the group profiled in Dan Brown’s novel Angels & Demons). I am not kidding. . . . Nor are they.”

Dear Dr. Warshak has put out an “answer” to the critics.  LOL, what was wrong with just posting the factual comments that were left on the Huffington Post article that were left by domestic violence advocates, then answering them there. Instead, he went to one of his favorite cheerleaders, Monika Logan, PAD blogger to speak on this (Monika, who is also in Texas, also into “parental alienation”).  More about this later.

First, in Warshak’s rant, part of it included this: Read more at pasisascam.wordpress.com

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f "parental alienation" existed in the the intact family (which you theorists have verified that it does occur in absence of divorce), why should it be such a focus now that the parents are separated/divorced? And who are you going to rely on to tell you the truth about what occurred within the family: the "alienated parent" who may have an agenda, the "alienator" who has no obligation to tell you a damn thing, the child who YOU are now "bringing into adult conflict," or people outside the family who often don't have a clue what is going on (as evidenced by the many murders that occur where the neighbors and community thought that the perp was such a nice guy)  If no counseling was mandated during the relationship why should it be ORDERED after one? How does this not step on parental/family and children's rights? And don't you think this is creating a big business for the court system? For example, in some states, parents must attend a mandatory divorce class before the paperwork is finalized. Who is raking in all this money? Read more at www.randijames.com

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Dear Dr. Warshak, I have been accused of parental alienation because my adolescent child won't visit his father, my ex husband. If my son's father is an alcoholic and chronic cheater that is into child porn, and my son knows about at least 2 out of 3 of what I mentioned, how do you suggest that I promote the relationship between father and son in order to remove the parental alienation label? I mean seriously, it's not my fault that my ex is a sick fucking asshole. I just don't want it to rub off on my our son (<--see, I'm trying!). Read more at www.randijames.com

Whiny whiny then he got spanked

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First he pouted…. Whiney, Whiney Dr. Richard Warshak

Whiney, Whiney Dr. Richard Warshak—HE alone responsible for Censorship of Comments on Huffington Post

WHY IS DR. RICHARD WARSHAK WHINING WHEN HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR CENSORING COMMENTS ON THE HUFFINGTON POST?

Poor Richard Warshak.  He asked for commenters to come to his Huffington Post article and comment.  A few of us did, and he refused to post the comments.  He censored out everything that didn’t show adoration for him.  That is what he wanted.  Afterall, he has a book and “expert testimony” services to sell.  Now he is whining about those who he censored…there are many that are upset about this.

Then he got spanked….

The discredited “diagnosis” of PAS (or an allegation of “parental alienation”), quite apart from its scientific invalidity, inappropriately asks the court to assume that the child’s behaviors and attitudes toward the parent who claims to be “alienated” have no grounding in reality. It also diverts attention away from the behaviors of the abusive parent, who may have directly influenced the child’s responses by acting in violent, disrespectful, intimidating, humiliating, or discrediting ways toward the child or the other parent. The task for the court is to distinguish between situations in which the child is critical of one parent because they have been inappropriately manipulated by the other (taking care not to rely solely on subtle indications) , and situations in which the child has his or her own legitimate grounds for criticism or fear of a parent, which will likely be the case when that parent has perpetrated domestic violence. Those grounds do not become less legitimate because the abused parent shares them, and seeks to advocate for the child by voicing his or her concerns. Read more at mamaliberty.wordpress.com

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So look at this. After all the attention Richard Warshak's critics have received - including dominating Google searches - he finally addresses them - and completely misses the boat. His comments are indented and in italics. My responses are in between.

http://trishwilson.typepad.com/blog/2010/12/richard-warshak-responds-to-critics-and-the-countess-responds-to-him.html

Richard Warshak Responds To Critics - And The Countess Responds To Him Read more at huffington.posterous.com

"If the mother has reacted to the abuse in a hysterical fashion, or used it as an excuse for a campaign of denigration of the father, then the therapist does well to try and 'sober her up'... Her hysterics... will contribute to the child's feeling that a heinous crime has been committed and will thereby lessen the likelihood of any kind of rapproachment with the father. One has to do everything possible to help her put the 'crime' in proper perspective. She has to be helped to appreciate that in most societies in the history of the world, [men having sex with children] was ubiquitous, and this is still the case." -- Richard A. Gardner, in True and False Accusations of Child Sex Abuse (1992), pp. 584-585

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Parental alienation theory is about shutting up and censoring victims of child abuse. "Having a relationship with the father" is posited as more important than avoiding child rape. More quotes from Richard Gardner, Richard Warshak's mentor. Yoshimisu Huffington asks: how many cats, do you think, actually have harmed infants, versus homo sapien males? And yet we cats aren't allowed in the nursery! More: Do children "need" two parents? Before applying "treatment" for parental alienation, doesn't it have to be established -- rather than assumed -- that the specific child in question actually is suffering a harm that needs to be addressed? Read more at huffington.posterous.com

In light of Dr. Richard Warshak continuing to censor most comments that oppose him or question him in any way, discussion must continue on the many other websites that have been covering this issue that the Huffington Post continues to ignore. Here is an interesting article to read, especially since I have been reading Warshak is denying any involvement in a “treatment” center.

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Speaker’s Corner: Does the Warshak workshop work?

Dr. Richard Gardner, a New York psychiatrist, proposed a theory in the early 1980s that some alienation was irrational in that the accepted parent had brainwashed the children to the extent that the cure was to deprogram them of their rejection of the other parent. Read more at rightsformothers.com