In this article from the Law Society Gazette it is clear that court professionals know whats happening in Family Courts. It would be easy to make changes based on this understanding, yet many still continue to place children in unsafe situations and use the disreputable label 'parental alienation'.
"Beck adds: ‘The more worrying problems are the way we’re treating harm within Children Act proceedings; effectively, the way we’re dealing with domestic abuse. That’s a much bigger problem. We still don’t have trauma-informed courts, and many of the measures to protect victims within the court process are not working as well as they should because of resource constraints.
‘One area that is going very wrong is this new wave of so called “parental alienation” allegations, often used in a way which effectively silences allegations of abuse before they are made. Parents who may have experienced abuse are concerned at not being able to prove that abuse. They fear that they will be accused of so-called alienation, and a child reluctant to go to see an abusive parent may be forced to do so against their will.’ "
We wonder why they are so reluctant to change and end the harm caused to abuse victims.
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