Betrayal of the Child
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements 3
Introduction 6
Notes to the First Edition 6
Betrayal of the Child Part I 1
Chapter 1 1
Family Dissolution and Betrayal of our Children’s Best Interests 1
Male Denial 1
Association of Children’s and Father’s Rights 10
The Disappearance of Fatherhood 15
Gender Warfare and Fatherlessness 22
Devaluation: Man as Thing or Person? 23
The Linguistic Merry-go-Round 24
Divorce and The De-Personalization of Fathers 28
The Psychiatric & Psychological Literature on the Child 33
Chapter 2 33
A Brief Primer on Gender Function, Child & Family 34
Our Man in Vienna: Freud and the Child 37
The Early Literature and Melanie Klein 37
Adler and Child Affection 39
Tender Years Doctrine 41
The Link Between Early Psychiatric Theory and Modern Family Law 41
Bowlby and the Theory of Attachment to Mother 44
A Critical View of The Works of Goldstein, Freud and Solnit 46
Interaction-The Literature and Male Judges 54
Later Research and Studies Challenging and Rebutting the Conclusions of Goldstein, Freud & Solnit 56
Modern Consensus on Joint Custody as the Least Detrimental Alternative 59
The Importance of Father 65
Maternal Nurturance Problems 71
Consequences of Parental Rights Deprivations on Children 75
Chapter 3 75
Psychological Damage Due to Enforced Father Absence 80
Short, Medium and Long-Term Damage 91
Parental Alienation Syndrome 95
Gardner and a Typical Case of Parental Alienation Syndrome 95
The Search for Father 101
Quest for the Missing Parent 102
Cycles of Deprivation 104
The Case of Duncan Brown and his Mother 105
The High Incidence of Anti-social behavior and crime 107
Loss of Economic and Educational Opportunity 110
The Myth of the Dead-Beat Dad 110
The Phenomena of Parental Child Abduction 115
Chapter 4 115
The Scandal of International & National Parental Child Abduction 115
The Three Models of Parental Abduction 118
Men don’t abduct children, women do! 122
Parental Child Abduction Laws 125
The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 126
English Child Custody & Abduction Act of 1984 133
PKPA (Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act) 18 USC § 1204 133
The Conspiracy of Silence 134
State Department 135