Young people who have suffered due to inhumane court rulings involving PAS are speaking out.

EXCERPT: They are not the only ones. This month, the NOW Foundation joined other leading organizations working on family law and family violence in a complaint filed against the United States with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The complaint charges that U.S. courts are failing to protect the life, liberties, security, and other human rights of abused mothers and children by frequently awarding child custody to abusers and child molesters. PAS is one predominant strategy being used by lawyers to place children in such danger. A recent Newsweek article noted the finding of a Harvard study that in custody cases involving documented spousal abuse, 54% granted custody to the batterer, and parental alienation was used as an argument in nearly every single one.

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