Yesterday on ITV Loose Women, I heard the words I have been saying for 13 years, actually spoken on national TV.
The fact that preventing a child/grandchild from having a loving and caring relationship with their parent/grandparent is Emotional Abuse.
When I first said that I was shouted down by all and sundry.
In my view it has always been a child protection issue.
It is emotional abuse against the children and to the parent/grandparents.
Of course it still remains a political hot potato because radical feminists continue to be a powerful lobby of people, who will fight this statement tooth and nail. They will continue to say that Parental Alienation is a tool used by men within the family court.
No politician will publicly stand up and be counted in this for fear of being accused of discrimination etc.
Maybe some of these ‘ladies’ might like to come and listen in to the calls we take on out helpline. They could listen to distraught grandparents, grandparents asking me what they can do? And their reaction when I say that there is nothing. The grandparent who tells me they no longer want to go on living, that their lives are pointless without their grandchildren.
Or to listen to alienated children, and read letters and emails showing the pain and hurt they feel. Grandchildren who are told that their grandparents have died ,when they haven’t. Grandchildren who have been stopped from going to a grandparents funeral.
The truth sadly, is that these ‘ladies’ don’t care.
These children never forget, how the adults in their lives have let them down. There are no winners in this scenario.
I sincerely hope it will not take another 13 years for something to be done, millions of children, parents and grandparents and extended family are suffering from this injustice.
Children are growing up believing that they are not loved, and are suffering with their mental health, we must continue in being their voice, they must be heard.
