By ANDREW JOHN TEAGUE, d.a.d.s. and NAAP
Deliberate physical child abuse is described as non-accidental physical injury by the UK courts.
The same should be said when children go through psychological abuse.
The non-accidental psychological injury in the child.
Child abuse is child abuse whatever the form.
More and more often children are being set up to beat on the doors of the mental health industry.
Psychologically manipulating any child is abuse…
Psychological abuse covers far more than manipulation.
Some examples:
brainwashing
denigration
continued domestic abuse
sexual abuse
Any form of abuse on a child will have a detrimental affect on the child psychologically.
Physical abuse has visible signs but even they can be missed hidden. when looking at the psychological injury in the child it is harder to identify.
Many professionals in the family court often don’t even look explore or bother.
A child who has been manipulated – in affect tortured – giving a statement to a professional.
“I don’t want to see my dad/mum I just want to be left alone.”
Often there is no real reason given. ‘Expressed wish’ of the child is given as the excuse for no contact.
How can any professional justify giving easy, lame wishes, especially when, more often than not, children are manipulated.
Child splitting.
The only excuse is simply the child is ‘forced coached’. The child becomes the vessel of the controlling parent’s narrative.
Judges who sit on benches across the UK fail to protect children from harm.
Social workers in public law will remove children from both parents on the risk of future emotional harm. Flip the coin to private secret courts and the forgotten children are failed, failed and failed again.
There are a number of examples – let’s explore.
“I don’t want to see my dad/mum I just want to be left alone.”
If anyone is clued-up. Stockholm Syndrome… this is where a person develops the unhealthy attachment with the abductor.
This I very often a survival mechanism. The abductor will often be a stranger but can be a parent or relative.
There are experts in many fields to unravel the damage caused to children.
Often this is at great expense within the family court arena. This cost is expected to be met by parents who simply can not pull large amounts of money out of their pocket.
An ever-failing court system where judges make bad judgements and no one is the wiser.
Often the judgements are made over shoddy homework.
Social workers and family court advisors often see an easy way ahead by targeting the targeted parent.
A term I use is ‘the dead blind monkey on Mars can see it’. Everyone else simply ignores it, Ostrich Syndrome.
Having been involved in many cases and been there myself – seeing our daughter hurting – I believe the whole system needs to be changed to protect children.
