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Saturday, April 21, 2007

This is an article...

...that I wrote for an online men's magazine. I wrote it in 2005 so that's how long I've known that Basinger was being an ass to Baldwin. I think that more people need to become aware of Parental Alienation Syndrome and the courts need to become familiar with it. Men, if you ALL start going to court and using that term where it applies, the courts will have to look it up. Tell anyone that you know who is going through this...I think that all men of marrying age should be aware of this syndrome so that it can be fought before it gets too bad:

Kim Basinger seems to love backing causes, and now it would seem as though she is now vying for the title, “Saint of Mothers Who Assassinate Father/Child Relationships For No Good Reason”. After co-parenting daughter Ireland for 10 years, Basinger has decided that father Alec Baldwin is no longer worthy of the role of father because there has not been enough “consideration for my time and work commitments” and Baldwin’s presence is a “disruption to Ireland’s life.”Court documents filed by Baldwin request the “disruption” of “co-parenting counseling” and a change in therapists. Co-parenting counseling seems quite reasonable to most people. Especially considering the history of the couple who have been bickering over the 10 year old since their 2001 divorce.

Of course, we are not privy to any of the particulars in the case. But one would expect that had Mr. Baldwin committed some hideous infraction in the time since the brutal divorce, Basinger would have seen to it that the media was aware of the situation. So, in this case, surely no news is good news. Yet Basinger's attorney fills 69 pages of court documents with reasons why she should not attend co-parenting classes with her ex. (of course more recently, Alec did make a mistake...if that the WORST thing that he's, Basinger should be pleased. I can think of a few things that she's done that I consider worse. Like she's never lost it in front of her kid. Right.)

Basinger seems to be leading the charge of women who seek to remove superfluous husbands by proxy. They effectively take away all access to their children from father’s who are guilty of nothing more than existing past their usefullness. Beyond child support, these women are convinced that the men with whom they produced these children serve no purpose. So, these men are banished from the lives of their children by women who find them to be more of an inconvenience than an asset.

Shortly after these men become burdens to their wives, all too often, they come home to an empty house. Phone calls fail to verify the location of the man’s family. That’s because the men don’t seem to call the people who DO know what’s going on, the police. Of course, he needn’t call them, they’re on their way over to arrest him for domestic violence or something worse. Now, the first step is done. He’s out of the house.

The next step is to keep him out of the house and that takes a very long time. But, as an affront to women who are truly victimized, these women manipulate the court system for years in their efforts. The more sadistic of these women begin poisoning the minds of innocent children. A “victimized” wife can get a man out of the house overnight. It takes a “victimized” child to keep them out for good.

The brainwashing that these children receive is extremely effective. It takes some particularly accomplished manipulation to evoke such “obsessional hatred”, that it “extends to the targeted parent's extended family without any guilt or remorse.”

In The Parental Alienation Directory, Dr. Douglas Darnall states that the young victims of mothers consumed with hatred, "have no capacity to feel guilty about how they behave towards the targeted parent or forgive any past indiscretions." Dr, Darnell describes a pattern of behavior that he has termed Parental Alienation Syndrome and it is not a pretty picture. Although men most assuredly have the ability to exact this behavior upon children, for whatever reasons, the majority of parents who inflict PAS upon children are women.

Loving mothers want to see their children surrounded by as many people who love them as possible. But the mother’s who cause children to have “difficulty making any differentiations between...personal experiences with the targeted parent” and “what they are told by the Obsessed Alienator.”, are more concerned with some fantasy life where the father simply does not exist than with the welfare of the children. In a society where we chastise men for not rising to the occasion when they father a child, how can we let these mothers off the hook when they steal not only the father, but the father’s entire family from the child? Grandmother’s, Grandfather’s, aunt’s and uncle’s are all fair game for these women.

When the accusations fly, the extended family is not immune. A women in metropolitan Atlanta accused her daughter’s grandparents of standing by while the father, “struck her once, throwing her to the ground. Then, he struck her again and she fell to the ground again.” In this devastatingly classic case of Parental Alienation Syndrome, this particular father is about the give up on his daughter after two years of fighting with his ex wife. He has been arrested 3 times, his elderly parents have been named in abuse accusations filed with the Paulding County Georgia court. During the Christmas holidays, the counselor ordered by Paulding County told this father that “the best Christmas gift that you can give your daughter is to stay away during the holidays.”

When Alec Baldwin requests a change in counselors, it’s entirely possible that he may have good cause. With “therapists” out there telling fathers that they can best serve their child by “staying away”, perhaps Baldwin’s request should be given due consideration.

Unfortunately, “severe alienation is usually irreversible” and more and more men like the Paulding County Georgia father are throwing up their hands in utter desperation after years of false accusations and alienation from their children. Until judges and therapists, along with the public in general, recognize PAS for the crime that it is, father’s without Baldwin’s resources will continue to “stay away”. Hopefully, Baldwin himself will continue...to the best of his ability...to be a “disruption” in his daughter’s life.

For more information, go to:

http://www.parentalalienation.com/pasdirectory.htm

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Meg

Thank you so much for this article! My brother has been dealing with an ex-wife just like you described. I didn't know there was a name for it. I am going to send this to my brother right now. Thanks again.

April 21, 2007  
Blogger Hoots Musings said...

Hi Meg,
Hoots here. My husband's ex is just like Kim B. She has it now where the kids got mad at him for sending one more money at Christmas than the other. They are equals when it comes to material things but not when it comes to the youngest being a total brainwashed brat. She chooses not to have anything to do with my husband but by golly she sure hollered about not getting an equal amount.

My husband is a saint to have lived with this wicked woman for 20 years. She kicked him out and has told the kids he left. We take the high road and know some day she will self destruct and pray the girls see her for the shallow, materialistic, evil woman that she is.

April 23, 2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I hadn't even heard of Parental Alienation until a few weeks ago, although I have experienced it both as a child of divorce, and as a divorced parent.

Then, about a month ago, my company, Conference Call University was asked to produce a Teleseminar event called “Being A Better Dad”.

One of the topics in this four-part course is Parental Alienation Syndrome, to be discussed with Dr. J. Michael Bone, an expert in the matter.

With the recent spotlight on Alec Baldwin, and his newly-announced fight against Parental Alienation, this information seems more timely than ever.

The blogosphere is blazing with all manner of opinion and thoughts on this matter, but I can’t wait to hear what Dr. Bone, a real expert on the subject, has to say about all of this.

If you want to check it out, it’s at http://www.DadsInfo.com

April 27, 2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

HINT: If your ex is pulling this chances are she or he is Personality Disordered a la Cluster B variety.
So both of you go see a shrink and take an MMPI. The proof's in the lying your ex will be found doing all over gawds creation because they're too 'smart' to be dumb enough to comprehend their fake answers are smack up against built in "F" (for "Fake" or "Fuck You") Scales in the instrument.
There. My good deed for the day.
TW

May 15, 2012  
Blogger Meg Kelso said...

You know...I used to work on a unit that had the computerized MMPI and when I was bored, I would take it myself. Sometimes I answered questions like I thought they should be answered, sometimes I answered them randomly and once, I actually did it right. I answered every single question honestly. That computer knew EVERY SINGLE TIME exactly what I was doing. I find the MMPI to be an stunningly accurate predictor of a persons true self. I would give everyone I met that test if I could.

When I answered honestly, it created a glowingly positive overview of my inner brain. Amazing.

May 15, 2012  

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