Deborah Rowe - the ultimate alienated parent?

Seems to us the ultimate alienated parent in the United States is Deborah Rowe, former wife of Michael Jackson.

Also seems to us, that although people have worked to educate the legislature and media about parental alienation, including Parental Alienation Awareness Day, there's a long way to go.

This includes members of the California State Legislature. We remember the day Amber Alerts were instituted, a California State Senator appeared on NBC Nightly News and said parents should be excluded from Amber Alerts.

We are unsure why California legislators don't quite get it, but currently the Senate Judiciary Committee a Bill 612, sponsored by Jim Beall, which would eliminate the civil rights of a parent who were alienated from their chidren, to sue.

We do not understand this as the Supreme Court in other states, have been making custody rulings which include recognizing parental alienation, for years.

Our feeling is legislators were influenced by lobbyists who are unclear that parental alienation is an action, not a mental problem. Lobbyists have deliberately mis-characterized parental alienation, with cozy names as "protective parents" or the New York based, Stop Family Violence. This worries us tremendously as we do not understand why any member of the legislator would deprive parents who were deliberately alienated from their children, the civil right to sue.

We encourage all to write to Judiciary committee and ask they kill this bill. We also encourage media to investigate parental alienation both as a litigation producing opportunity for various therapists, and judges who do not readily address the matter.

The Senate Judiciary Committee includes:

Chairman
Ellen Corbett or call her at: (916) 651-4010


Co-Chair: Tom Harmon or call him at: (916) 651-4035. Ask for Tiffany Conklin

You may call the others:

Mark Leno: 916-651-4003 ask for Barry
Dean Florez: 916-651-4016 ask for Che Salinas
Mimi Walters: 916-651-4033 Garth is on vacation, ask for for Gina Zari