CUSTODY EVALUATIONS IN ABUSE CASES: Good Science/Bad Science Joan S. Meier

Excerpts Page 7- 8 " Parental Alienation (Syndrome) 

• PAS has been widely discredited as unscientific by numerous professional bodies and individuals
• Instead, “parental alienation” is now used in almost exactly the same way
• There is little dispute that some parents denigrate each other to the children, especially in divorce

BUT:  There is no valid science underlying PAS, or the use of “PA” as a basis for discrediting allegations of abuse, nor as an explanation for children’s fears" see hard Copy https://drive.google.com/file/d/13Nd7qPGXfmpWaEzwWV9Ta2vtSEhRUMZ3P3U62dabRqbG235MkaDTu9gxCQ_mUuxZz_Ss7FMue9xqFKai/view