And yet, PAS keeps making appearances in courts across the country, subverting and perverting the pursuit of justice one family at a time

EXCERPT: And yet, PAS keeps making appearances in courts across the country, subverting and perverting the pursuit of justice one family at a time. According to the Children's Legal Rights Journal, a North Carolina court incarcerated a teenage girl who refused to visit her father, and a New Jersey court suspended a mother's contact with her two children, granting sole custody to the father despite "'foreseeable emotional upset and possible trauma'" to the children (Hoult, 1). In Pennsylvania, a court ordered a teenager into "PAS treatment," and he subsequently hung himself.

Sick Joke or Sick Reality?

Below the Belt: A Biweekly Column by NOW President Kim Gandy
May 17, 2007
http://www.now.org/news/note/051707.html