I was actually holding my breath while I watched Dianne Sawyer interview Alec Baldwin on 20/20 on Friday. Father's Rights organizations and Mr. Baldwin himself have hyped up the coming out of his book and the incessant support of Parental Alienation syndrome, expectedly.
PAS wasn't explained in detail, at least as far as the show edits chose to display. And I do not think that Dr. Gardner was discussed--if so, very minimally. The focus was more on Mr. Baldwin, and his actions after his divorce.
While I cannot claim to know everyone's pain, there are certain actions that I pick up on...Mr. Baldwin was sweating on his face rather profusely throughout the interview. His eyes looked tired and beady. His posture was erect. And then there was this hand behind the very bright red ear movement that he did twice.
What does this mean? Maybe nothing. Surely I can relate: It is like being on trial...sitting there, trying to get your story out, but already believing that the listening ears are against you...so you brace yourself for the battle...almost seemingly attacking prematurely.
Or maybe, you sit there and lie your ass off.
But can it be a lie if you really believe what you are saying?
Who really knows besides Ms. Bassinger, Mr. Baldwin, and their daughter?
Anyway, the lady who gave the dissenting view about PAS, is someone I definitely met in D.C. I felt so relieved to see that 20/20 would let someone else get heard, because the actual damage of the publicity of PAS could be far impacting. We know how it is when celebrities jump on bandwagons and fight for a cause....there are followers that believe in them like the second coming of Christ.
I'm tired today, though not as frightened as I felt yesterday evening. No more PAS.
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2 advocates for peace:
Perhaps you haven't been exposed don't know what parental alienation is. I think do.
It's your twelve year old daughter coming into your house telling you exactly how much you pay in monthly child support, and saying "and that's not even enough to feed me."
Its your daughter being informed of the child support amount immediately after her mother's return from a vacation to Carnival in Venice, Cinque Terra and Florence with her paramour, when in the family courtroom the mother said it was a free trip to a friend's house in Zurich.
It's your daughter telling you "I don't need Mom's help to hate you" after she was recently informed of a September 2008 hearing.
It's taking the younger daughter out for her fourteenth birthday dinner, and the PAS-affected daughter not responding to the invitation. That's when you understand PAS and Alec Baldwin.
It's your sixth grade daughter going to a local amusement park with a classmate and his family, and having her mother stipulate in a custody order that your daughter isn't allowed to be in your house alone longer than thirty minutes alone, because the daughter will be calling her boyfriend to have sex while unmonitored - and the mother later stating the custody stipulation was the father's part. (Having sex is a bit of projection on the mother's part given her past liassons, but considering that the same daughter had a broken leg at four years old due to her mother's negligence and another daughter nearly abducted from a local park while her mother was talking on a park bench, it's a conjured concern).
It's your freshman daughter's mother calling you to say you weren't welcome at the High School Open House, stating in the daugher's presence "this is why [your daughter] says you are stalking her".
It's your daughter's mother helping her paramour move out of his martital residence while his wife is at her mother's funeral, with both adults knowing that the paramour's 18-year old daughter from his second marriage will be left for his third wife to take care of through her pregnancy. PAS is when your daughter describes her mother's paramour as her "father equivanent".
No, I've heard that before. Sounds like an unfortunate situation. Doesn't mean it is deserving of a diagnosis for the mother and child. If your neighbor did such a thing, would it be as punishable? PAS is a tool to negate child abuse. Period. Even if one part of PAS was valid, the fact is that it totally excuses one party from the equation.
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