EEK!! Batterers on the Loose, Screeches the NOW
The National Organization for Women has recently put out an Alert that makes this claim (serious, we’re not making this up):
Recognizing the existence of Parental Alienation Syndrome would benefit “the abuser and discriminates against the victims of abuse, which are overwhelmingly women.”
Here’s the full Alert from NOW’s Tracy Simmons:
I am writing you, the leaders of various groups that represent battered women, for your help in one of the most important matters we will address this year. The American Psychiatric Association is considering adding Parental Alienation to the Diagnosticians book, which would legitimize this legal tactic into a real disorder.
Parental Alienation Syndrome has now morphed into Parental Alienation Disorder thanks to the fathers’ rights organizations who are wildly pushing this through, and why wouldn’t they? It benefits the abuser and discriminates against the victims of abuse, which are overwhelmingly women.
This gender specific, abuse excuse, junk science can not be allowed to enter into the scientific community as there is nothing scientific about a syndrome/disorder whose only symptoms are a uterus, divorce papers, and bruises. I ask that you all to take action against legitimizing this outrageous theory by e-mailing the APA and asking your groups to do the same.
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This gender specific, abuse excuse, junk science can not be allowed…
Who said anything about it being gender specific?
I would think that in any truly abusive circumstance the abusive personality would be the more likely alienator.
Surely NOW should support rather than oppose. If they are true to their abuse rhetoric, that is. Best interests of the children and all that.