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Psychological abuse — including demeaning, bullying and humiliating — may be the most prevalent form of child maltreatment.
Yet it’s among the hardest to identify or to treat
It may be the most common kind of child abuse — and the most challenging to deal with. But psychological abuse, or emotional abuse, rarely gets the kind of attention that sexual or physical abuse receives.
That’s the message of a trio of pediatricians, who write this week in the journal Pediatrics with a clarion call to other family doctors and child specialists: stay alert to the signs of psychological maltreatment. Its effects can be every bit as devastating as those of other abuse.
Psychological maltreatment can include terrorizing, belittling or neglecting a child, the pediatrician authors say.
(MORE:Child Abuse Pediatricians Recommend Basic Parenting Classes to Reduce Maltreatment and Neglect)
“We are talking about extremes and the likelihood of harm, or risk of harm, resulting from the kinds of behavior that make a child feel worthless, unloved or unwanted,” Harriet MacMillan, one of the three pediatrician authors, told reporters.
What makes this kind maltreatment so challenging for pediatricians and for social services staff, however, is that it’s not defined by any one specific event, but rather by the nature of the relationship between caregiver and child. That makes it unusually hard to identify.
Keeping a child in a constant state of fear is abuse, for example. But even the most loving parent will occasionally lose their cool and yell. Likewise, depriving a child of ordinary social interaction is also abuse, but there’s nothing wrong with sending a school-aged boy to stew alone in his room for an hour after he hits a younger sibling. All of this means that, for an outsider who observes even some dubious parenting practice, it can be hard to tell whether a relationship is actually abusive, or whether you’ve simply caught a family on a bad day.
(MORE:How Child Abuse Primes the Brain for Future Mental Illness)
Psychological abuse can also include what you might call “corrupting a child” — encouraging children to use illicit drugs, for example, or to engage in other illegal activities.
In their Pediatrics paper, MacMillan and co-authors say that 8% to 9% of women and 4% of men reported severe psychological abuse in childhood when the question was posed in general-population surveys of the U.S. and Britain. A number of U.S. surveys have also found that more adults claim they faced psychological maltreatment as kids than claim they experienced any other form of abuse. This suggests that psychological maltreatment may be the most common form of abuse inflicted on kids.
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I’ve been fighting now for over 10 years. My oldest is now 21 and wants nothing to do with me. She hates me. My worst nightmare has come true. I have spent every dime, every ounce of energy, and every minute fighting for my 2 children who I love with all my heart and soul. My ex has put my kids through every alienation tactic there is. My kids had no chance of coming through this with anything but hatred for me. I will never give up on them.
After 10 years of fighting and to get to this point, most people don’t understand why I won’t stop, especially since my oldest rejects me. They no longer give me comments of hope and seem to think I have issues. They know nothing about PA or PAS. I wish more people would get to know about it, without having to go through it, but I guess that’s the only way people learn about it is when they are going through it. 10 years ago, there wasn’t a name for it and people really looked at me as a bad person to loose my children. I am not a bad parent, I am a fabulous Mom. My children were happy and healthy and a little bit spoiled. My ex had me arrested for something I didn’t do and used that case against me in our custody case. Once he got full custody that criminal case against me was dropped. His lawyer knew exactly what to do to get him full custody. He used that false allegation against me the whole way. 3 months after moving in with their Father, his girlfriend became my 7 and 11 yr old kid’s mom and I became Angie.
I only want you to know that it doesn’t matter what sex the alienating parent is. There are just as evil Fathers out there alienating Mothers too. I have been screwed by the court system. My lawyers have told me, “the Judge HATES you!” This explains why he got away with never doing what he was ordered to do and won every time we went to court and something was taken from me every time, until I had no rights as a parent and no money. I had the Judge say twice that she didn’t care if it was fair.
If the Judge wasn’t bias, I would have gotten to see my kids, but she made it impossible for me to see them and she enjoyed being so powerful. First she let him move out of state with our kids, then she added extraordinary expenses to what my child support should be. The extra expense was for daycare that my children never went to and for braces that never ended. I am still paying for both. If child support would have been based on my income, I may have been able to afford travelling to see my kids, but I had to pay 70% of my income and the Judge didn’t care.
I am not behind on my child support. even though I’ve had to pay more of my income than is legally acceptable. My oldest moved out of her Father’s house, and got married before she turned 19. I wasn’t told she got married but I quit paying child support for her when she turned 19.
Then I put a motion in to Modify my Child Support. My ex delayed the hearing for over a year. In court the Judge asked me who told me I could quit paying child support for my 20 year old at the time. Needless to say, I had to back pay from when my daughter turn 19 until that day when she said I could quit paying. I became in arrears, just like that. I just finished last month paying child support plus the extraordinary expenses for my 21 year old married daughter who hasn’t lived with her Father in over 2 years. So as you can see things weren’t fair for me either.
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“Children’s Rights” is not just about Fathers, it’s also about Children, Mothers, Families, Public Advocacy, Civil Rights and Liberties. This Children’s Rights Facebook Group, Page and Cause have been created for positive outreach, networking, distribution and discussion of information related to our cause.
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
• A continuing relationship with both parents.
• Be treated not as a piece of property, but as a human being recognized to have unique feelings, ideas, and desires consistent with that of an individual.
• Continuing care and proper guidance from each parent.
• Not to be unduly influenced by either parent to view the other parent differently.
• Express love, friendship, and respect for both parents: freedom from having to hide those stated emotions or made to be ashamed of such.
• An explanation that the impending action of divorce was in no way caused by the child’s actions.
• Not to be the subject and/or source of any and all arguments.
• Continuing, honest feedback with respect to the divorce process and its impact on the changing relationships of the family.
• Maintain regular contact with both parents and a clear explanation for any change in plans and/or cancellations.
• Enjoy a pleasurable relationship with both parents, never to be employed as a manipulative bargaining tool.
• The obligation of being a parent does not end after a divorce.
It is extremely important to understand that the bond of marriage is completely different from that of parents. This is the most common downfall in today’s society, as a dissolution of marriage takes place so does that of parenting.
A WORD ABOUT SELF REPRESENTATION ~ The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been interpreted to provide EVERY AMERICAN with the CONSTITUTIONAL right to self-representation, if they so choose. That privilege, like all other constitutional rights, should be enjoyed without fear of harassment, prejudice, or abuse.
Furthermore, no law, regulation, or policy should exist to abridge or surreptitiously extinguish that right. Self-Represented Litigants have no less of a right to FAIR and MEANINGFUL due process under the federal and state constitutions as those individuals who choose to utilize an attorney for their legal affairs and issues. In fact, NOWHERE in any state or federal constitution does it specify that the hiring of a lawyer is a prerequisite to exercising one’s due process rights.
Democratic principles dictate that we have the right to freely choose between self-representation and hiring a lawyer to handle our legal matters without suffering humiliation, prejudice, or penalization. After all, it is the parties to the litigation that ultimately have to deal with the consequences of the case’s outcome, and not the judge or the lawyers involved in the matter.
Contrary to the view of certain judges and lawyers, those who opt to litigate their own legal matters without an attorney are NOT second-class citizens deserving of contempt and injustice. Instead, they are BRAVE CITIZENS with an inalienable right to have their legal causes adjudicated objectively and justly — with or without a lawyer.
Self-representation can be a difficult, time-consuming, and often frightening experience, especially for those burdened by demanding work schedules, family responsibilities, and other obligations of day-to-day living.
Accordingly, those who engage in the difficult task of self-litigation should be REVERED for their COURAGE and DEDICATION, not scorned or abused.
We also need to amass momentous opposition against those persons, agencies, and institutions who, in the interest of protecting huge profits, careers, and prestige, subject self-litigants to a hostile and often abusive litigation atmosphere calculated to suppress self-representation and force people to become completely and financially dependent on lawyers to gain “paid” access to a taxpayer-funded legal system.
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