DadsDivorce editor, Rick Ortiz, discusses the book, A Family's Heartbreak: A Parent's Introduction To Parental Alienation Syndrome with author Mike Jeffries.
Jeffries documents the painful experience of watching a beloved child be pulled away through the mind control of a parent who is set on forcing the child to align with them while alienating the non-custodial parent.
Our discussion centers around the author's ongoing struggle to make sense of his situation and remain connected to his child, the technical aspects of writing a book that helps make sense of this bizarre form of abuse to others who are experiencing it, and his hope for the future of his own family and the disintegrated families of other victims of PAS.
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Read Jeffries' book, A Family's Heartbreak: A Parents Introduction to Parental Alienation Syndrome.
We were given a diagnosis of PAS by a social worker, who was unable to act without the mother's consent. We were offered family counselling but would not have been allowed to bring the two girls most abused by the situation without their mother's permission.
When the social worker asked for the permission, the mother replied "I don't know what my daughter has to do with their family needing counselling". And she refused the permission.
I hope that one day, this problem is truly seen and appreciated accordingly for what it is; child abuse.