Parental Alienation Syndrome

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Prolog

Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) is a collection of behaviors where one parent turns a child against the other parent. So when one parent deprives their  child of a healthy relationship with the other parent, the child may experience chronic psychological distress leading to the deterioration of the parental relationship. Since distress can affect physical health, health care professionals must not overlook the possibility that the child has been subjected to abuse by the custodial parent.

The Details

Blocking or inhibiting contact with the children – The custodial parent blocks or discourages contact between children and the other parent. The most heinous word in family law is ‘visitation’. With this word, the non custodial parent and his (or her) children become mutual guests under the oversight of the custodial parent and the courts.

Only a father can imbue certain intangible qualities to his children that a mother cannot. The corollary that a mother can imbue intangible qualities is also true. Children benefit most when their parents work and act together for their children, rather than two biological parents in conflict acting separately. This is the well-known phenomenon of synergism where the sum of the efforts of persons working together is greater than the sum of each person working alone. This is also called teamwork.

Berating the other parent in the presence of children – Comments such as ‘your mother is no-good’ or ‘your father has abandoned us’ are degrading to the child who respect the parent. What the controlling parent is saying to the child is that their feelings toward the other parent are wrong. The controlling parent’s intent is to berate and change the child’s view of the other parent. This conflict between the controlling parent’s demands and what the child knows and believes can lead to later conflicts in the child’s life.

Threatening children with withdrawal of home, love, and support – J. Michael Bone and Michael R. Walsh came up with a simple statement. “My way or the highway.” That says it all. What the controlling parent is saying is that the child must think the way I do, believe as I do, and feel as I do or else! The ‘else’ word is a threat.

Teaching or forcing the child to fear or reject the other parent – The most prevalent tactic is coercion. Through repetition, the controlling parent relates false accounts of abuse by the other parent. When repeated, this deception can become accepted fact that replaces the child’s own true experiences – my way or no way. This tactic is not acceptable.  A similar tactic is that the instigator tells a child that they cannot have contact with the innocent parent unless the child admits that he or she abused them. This is a guaranteed losing strategy for the child and the innocent parents. When the child is forced to admit that abuse occurred then the child cannot have further contact. This is called Catch-22, or my way or no way.

False Allegations of Abuse

The problem is that many courts ignore false allegations against fathers and men. False allegations of domestic violence and child abuse are common in family law proceedings and the person making the allegation (predominately female) far too often succeeds. This is a low risk tactic because the courts rarely hold false accusers accountable for their conduct.

I have found that mediators, social workers, police and probation officers extensively quote the accuser and ignore the facts given by the falsely accused person. Worse, they deliberately fabricate statements and then attribute these fabricated statements to the falsely accused party. I have seen sixty-three (63) separate occurrences where such persons used the same text and just filled in the blanks, changing only the name. Many judges fail to act in good faith and sometimes courts alter signed documents and testimony given under an oath of truthfulness.

The core of this issue is that one spouse wants to control the other through child custody and the money and the property they gain to receive. A key factor in false allegations of spousal abuse and in Parental Alienation Syndrome is that the controlling party is incapable of civility and truthfulness about their partner. These abusers are selfish and do not care what their spouse or children feel.

A false accusation can give an abusive woman exclusive control of the children and the property.  This gives them a nearly insurmountable advantage in the legal system. Our misandrious courts often treat innocent males as the guilty party and do not require proof that an accusation is true.  The problem is that false allegations of abuse, even when recanted or proven false, can devastatingly affect the victim and their children.  This can bring about permanent physical, emotional, and economic effects.  The problem is that those who lie or abet such conduct are rarely punished.

So with a stroke of a pen, a female can get her spouse out of her life and assure herself of control of the children. That power extends to her control of her husband, his earnings, and his property. Our support laws are structured to account for household income rather than the ex-husband’s income alone. Child support is taxable to the payer and not the recipient. With those so easily made signatures. The ex-wife can increase her tax-free income from combined incomes of her former husband and his current spouse or a live-in partner.

The problem is exacerbated in states having high child support guidelines, high wages, and high cost of living. Higher wages bring higher tax rates yet most payers of child support cannot claim children as dependents. Moving to other states that have a lower cost of living is not an option for non custodial parents because court ordered child support payments remain unchanged. Worse, moving to another region with a lower cost of living may trigger a court review that increases child support payments.

Custodial parents can often improve their living standard by moving to states or regions that have a lower cost of living and still collect the same court ordered tax-free child support payments. Child support payments are often based on the extent of contact that the non custodial parent has with their child (or children). Moving away and false accusations are tactics that have exacted larger child support payments.

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Raising Awareness of Parental Alienation and Hostile Aggressive Parenting

Source: Parental alienation Awareness Organization (PAAO)

This is Parental Alienation ( PAS)

Did You Know That…
Parental Alienation is a form of Child Abuse? 

Parental alienation (or Hostile Aggressive Parenting) is a group of behaviors that are damaging to children’s mental and emotional well-being, and can interfere with a relationship of a child and either parent. These behaviors most often accompany high conflict marriages, separation or divorce.

These behaviors whether verbal or non-verbal, cause a child to be mentally manipulated or bullied into believing a loving parent is the cause of all their problems, and/or the enemy, to be feared, hated, disrespected and/or avoided.

Parental alienation and hostile aggressive parenting deprive children of their right to be loved by and showing love for both of their parents. The destructive actions by an alienating parent or other third person (like another family member, or even a well meaning mental health care worker) can become abusive to the child – as the alienating behaviors are disturbing, confusing and often frightening, to the child, and can rob the child of their sense of security and safety leading to maladaptive emotional or psychiatric reactions.

Most people do not know about Parental Alienation and Hostile Aggressive Parenting until they experience it. Parental Alienation Awareness is put forth to help raise awareness about the growth in the problem of targeting children and their relationship in healthy and loving parent/child bond.

You can also find more information about parental alienation here: A Family`s Heartbreak

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Parental abduction emotionally hard for kids

Source: KBOI2.com

BOISE — Nine months ago, Marco Alcalde’s ex-wife abducted his seven-year-old son Max Gian. Alcalde hasn’t seen the boy since then but is already making plans for when his son comes home.

“I need to be ready, so I’ve done some things,” Alcalde said. “I’ve lined up a psychologist.”

Experts say that’s a wise move because the psychological toll on a child from parental abduction can be devastating.

In the Wednesday kidnapping of Luca Principali, for example, police say he seemed to recognize his mother at the door but didn’t want to go.

Dr. Thomas Young with the Warm Springs Counseling Center says such a moment can be extremely hard on a child emotionally.

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Parental Alienation Syndrome ( PAS ) – Repairing the child-parent relationship after traumatic separation / alienation

By Jeff Opperman, For Counseling Today

The concept of Parental Alienation Syndrome is pretty simple — one parent deliberately damages, and in some cases destroys, the previously healthy, loving relationship between his or her child and the child’s other parent. In a severe PAS case, the alienating parent and child work together to successfully eliminate the previously loved Mom or Dad from the child’s life. Their campaign is aimed at destroying Mom or Dad’s position as a loving parent and responsible adult.

Richard A. Gardner, a private practitioner and attending psychiatrist at New York’s Presbyterian Hospital, coined the term Parental Alienation Syndrome almost 20 years ago to describe the breakdown of previously normal, loving parent/child relationship during divorce and child custody cases. However, the United States judicial system pays little, if any, attention to PAS. The legal and psychological communities, not to mention family members and well-meaning friends, often mistakenly dismiss PAS as the typical rancor associated with high-conflict divorce and child custody cases. With one of every two marriages ending in divorce, approximately 20 million children are already victims of mild, moderate or severe alienating behavior. Twenty-five million more children will likely face some form of PAS in their futures.

In a severe PAS case, unresolved psychological and emotional issues are at the foundation of the alienating parent’s destructive actions toward the previously loved other parent. “During a divorce, the alienating parent feels an intense level of abandonment and betrayal,” said David Israel, a Connecticut clinical psychologist who specializes in child advocacy and family mediation. “This parent’s main missions become filling the void left by the divorce and destroying a relationship that is loved and cherished by the other parent.

“The alienating parent uses his or her child to fill the emptiness in order to keep from feeling abandoned,” he added. “Emotionally speaking, the child sees the parent as a victim and feels obligated to take care of the parent. The child takes on much more than he or she should take on – worrying about the parent, defending the parent and making sure the parent is OK. During this time, the child becomes emotionally dependent on the alienating parent — looking to the parent for acknowledgement and praise on how well he or she is performing the new responsibilities. So you have a very unhealthy situation where the parent is emotionally dependent on the child and vice versa. This unhealthy dependency between parent and child is the foundation of PAS.”

The targeted parent is left mourning the loss of the child. The child isn’t dead, but a loving, caring, sensitive child is now an angry, bitter extension of the alienating parent. The love the alienated parent and child shared is gone. The alienated parent is desperate — willing to try anything to repair the relationship with the child. However, repairing that relationship with old behaviors and traditional family therapy is virtually impossible.

“The common goal of traditional family during a divorce is to help the divorcing spouses co-parent for the best interests of the child,” Israel said. “However, in PAS families, the parents do not have — nor do they share — that common goal. The severely alienating parent and child have their own agenda — they want to keep the targeted parent out of the child’s life. They may initially convince a competent therapist of the righteousness of their position, but a good clinician will discover inconsistencies in their story. When the parent and child realize the clinician is challenging them instead of passively listening and supporting them, they stop cooperating. At that point, the therapist must recommend more dramatic measures.”

 

How dramatic? In order for a severely alienated child to rebuild his or her relationship with the alienated parent, the child must be removed from the alienating parent’s sphere of influence. The child must live full-time with the alienated parent. The child can’t call, visit or have any contact with the alienating parent — until the child is strong enough to withstand that parent’s negative and destructive influence.

 

And the sound you just heard was many judges gasping in indignation and disbelief.

In today’s courtrooms, judges are unlikely to award custody of the child to the targeted parent and remove the child from the only place the child considers home. They believe such a radical course of action will somehow damage the child. Despite the fact that there is no clinical evidence to suggest that placing a severely alienated PAS child with his or her one emotionally healthy parent will harm the child, most judges would rather not further upset a child already reeling over the breakup of his or her family.

“No judge will take the necessary steps to address a severe case of PAS until a case is so bad that the child is completely alienated from the parent,” said Pamela Hoch, founder of the Rachel Foundation, a non-profit organization in Gaithersburg, Md., that specializes in reintegrating alienated children and parents. “Many times I tell a parent, ‘It must get worse before it can get better.’ Usually the child will act out excessively about visiting the alienated parent. The child may send the most toxic hate mail imaginable to the parent. A judge usually must see that type of behavior before he or she will consider taking the necessary draconian steps to successfully resolve the case.”

Reintegrating an alienated child and parent takes extensive physical contact — normal day-to-day contact — between the child and parent. The alienated child must rediscover a healthy, loving relationship with the alienated parent in order to eventually have loving relationships with both parents on his or her own terms. “In our program we take the view that alienated children aren’t unhealthy,” Hoch said. “These children are just trying to survive as hostages in an alienation situation. We don’t believe these children are sick.”

Any reintegration program first must overcome the child’s acting out and mistrust. Second, it must focus on education rather than therapy. Then the child and parent must rediscover good communication skills. Finally, the child must build bridges to a new life that includes the formerly alienated parent, the parent’s extended family and friends and, one day, the alienating parent.

The process begins after the judge gives the alienated parent full custody of the child. Transferring the child from the alienating parent to the alienated parent is often the most difficult, and stressful, part of the process for both child and parent.

In many cases, the local police department and child welfare agency must be notified before a transfer. A controlled environment during the transfer is essential on the practical, psychological and law enforcement levels. All children refuse to go in the beginning. A severely alienated child will scream during a transfer, “I’m being kidnapped; I’m being abducted.” A parent needs strong, knowledgeable and trained people along the route to ensure an orderly transfer to the parent’s home, a rented facility or even a hotel room. The goal should be to get the child into the new environment safely and as quickly as possible.

The alienated parent shouldn’t take part in the transfer. This way, the child doesn’t have the familiar target against whom to direct his or her anger and bad behavior. Instead, the child should deal with a facilitator — a neutral third party. A facilitator may be a mental health professional or may be someone working with a mental health professional. Typically, the Rachel Foundation uses someone older — a non-threatening grandfather or grandmother type — to explain to the child in very concrete, no-nonsense language, “This is happening, and there is nothing you can do about it. We know this is unpleasant for you, and we’re here to help you get through it. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t going to happen or be any less unpleasant.”

Naturally, the facilitator must overcome the child’s mistrust. The child also needs to cool off and regain control of his or her emotions. A child may need anywhere from two hours to two weeks to cool down. During this part of the process, the facilitator should focus on education rather than on therapy. The facilitator needs to inform the child in age-appropriate language what will happen next. Much like a project manager in a business meeting, the facilitator should outline the goals, objectives and parameters of the project — breaking down larger objectives into smaller, more manageable tasks.

The alienated parent may or may not have contact with the child during the cooling-off period. However once the child calms down, the alienated parent should always be in the picture. The biggest hurdle is breaking down the child’s false beliefs about the alienated parent (i.e., the parent isn’t the violent, dangerous and untrustworthy monster the child believes the parent to be). The facilitator and other adults should take on this task through a series of age-appropriate reality checks. They must lead the child and parent through simple, normal everyday activities. And the tasks should be simple — getting dressed, doing laundry, making dinner, eating dinner together, cleaning up, going to movies, parks and museums. The child and parent should also watch each other interact with other people. This process benefits the parent as much as the child. Don’t forget, in some cases the parent and child haven’t been together in the same room for years. The parent often believes the child is the same child he or she knew before the alienation. That isn’t the case.

 

“In reality, no one can break down a child’s false reality except the child. But by engaging the child and parent in normal activities, the child gets to see for him or herself that the parent doesn’t fit the child’s long-held beliefs. That’s when the child’s false belief system starts to crumble,” Hoch said.

 

The parent and child’s work doesn’t end here. The two still must address the issues that led to their current relationship. The two can’t be fully reintegrated as long as one or both of them continues to sweep unresolved issues under a rug.

Bringing these issues out in the open is tricky. Negative comments about the alienating parent are never a good idea. In fact, the parent may resist saying anything that could damage the new, fragile parent/child relationship. And the child may not feel safe saying anything. Enter the facilitator. The facilitator should act as a communication conduit between the parent and child. When the child starts questioning the differences between his or her distorted memory and his or her new reality, the child will typically broach the subject with someone other than the parent first.

Ultimately, no one — not the facilitator, parent or anyone else — can change the child’s mind about what did or didn’t happen in the past. The only person who can do that is the child. And the only way the child can realize that his or her perception of the parent is wrong is to compare that perception with the new reality in front of his or her eyes. “It could take the child as much as a year for the child to open up to the parent about how he or she felt during the lost time. And finishing that conversation could take years,” Hoch said.

A successful reintegration does not guarantee a successful long-term relationship. The key to long-term success is the child and parent’s pre-PAS relationship. Were the two close? Did they have a healthy and strong bond? If the parent/child relationship was good, then their future looks bright.

Even when the child and parent shared a healthy pre-alienation relationship, their future could be complicated by something Hoch called “the pendulum effect.” If the court allows a child to re-establish contact with the alienating parent too soon, the child begins swinging wildly between the two parents. According to Hoch, the formerly alienated parent must remain calm during these swings and continue sending the child messages filled with love and support.

Another key factor in the long-term success of the reintegration process is bridge relationships. For example, a child alienated from his or her mother may have stayed close to an aunt — the mother’s sister. The aunt becomes the bridge relationship. Siblings also make excellent bridges. Bridge relationships are important because the “bridge” person has loving relationships with both the alienated child and the parent. The bridge person provides a much-needed reality check for a reintegrated child experiencing the pendulum effect. These relationships become particularly important to the long-term success of the reintegration process once the formerly alienated child turns 18 years old and is beyond the court’s jurisdiction.

Jeff Opperman can be reached at: HugstoHeartbreak@aol.com
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PAS – Parental Alienation and Hostile Aggressive Parenting

Source: Parental Alienation Awareness Organization ( PAAO)

Did You Know That…
Parental Alienation is a form of Child Abuse?

Parental alienation (or Hostile Aggressive Parenting) is a group of behaviors that are damaging to children’s mental and emotional well-being, and can interfere with a relationship of a child and either parent. These behaviors most often accompany high conflict marriages, separation or divorce.

These behaviors whether verbal or non-verbal, cause a child to be mentally manipulated or bullied into believing a loving parent is the cause of all their problems, and/or the enemy, to be feared, hated, disrespected and/or avoided.

Parental alienation and hostile aggressive parenting deprive children of their right to be loved by and showing love for both of their parents. The destructive actions by an alienating parent or other third person (like another family member, or even a well meaning mental health care worker) can become abusive to the child – as the alienating behaviors are disturbing, confusing and often frightening, to the child, and can rob the child of their sense of security and safety leading to maladaptive emotional or psychiatric reactions.

Most people do not know about Parental Alienation and Hostile Aggressive Parenting until they experience it. Parental Alienation Awareness is put forth to help raise awareness about the growth in the problem of targeting children and their relationship in healthy and loving parent/child bond.

The Gregory Mantell Show — Parental Alienation (Video 1-3)

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Sharp rise in international parental kidnapping cases

By: Emily Babay

One year ago, Douglass Berg, of Reston, said goodbye to his son and daughter before they boarded a flight with his ex-wife on what was supposed to be a three-week visit to her native Japan. He has not seen the children since.

Stefanie Gardner, a native of Germany, traveled to that country with the two young sons she had been raising in Northern Virginia with her estranged husband, Gregory. Since then, she has refused to allow them to return. He accused her of kidnapping the boys, and a warrant for her arrest was issued in the United States. But a German court has awarded her sole custody.

For an increasing number of parents in the Washington area, child-bearing relationships with a foreign partner are deteriorating into charges of child abductions, and in many cases legal struggles in which the deck is stacked against Americans fighting the laws of another country.

Nationwide, the number of cases is rising dramatically. There were 1,135 international child abductions in fiscal 2009, according to State Department statistics. That’s nearly double the 642 cases reported in 2006.

Foreign travel, military operations and immigration have spurred an increase in international relationships, experts say. And an international city such as Washington, full of embassy personnel and staffers for global companies, is fertile ground for such abductions. But parents of different nationalities raising children together can lead to “cultural differences that people may not be willing to compromise on,” said Donna Linder, executive director of the nonprofit Child Find of America.

Berg told The Washington Examiner that his ex-wife “felt like I was invading her turf” by sharing custody of Gunnar, now age 10, and Kianna, 9, after their divorce. She thought child care was a mom’s responsibility.

“That may be her culture, but that’s certainly not mine,” he said.

Gardner’s attorneys say tensions grew between Gardner and her husband, and he consented to her taking the children to Germany in 2004.

German court documents show that, in 2005, she was awarded custody of Alec, now age 8, and Dominic, now 7. In 2006, a federal warrant was issued for Gardner’s arrest. Her attorneys are trying to get the charge dropped. One of them, Steven Gremminger, said they’ve given authorities information from German courts and the prosecutor “has indicated that she’s having the FBI review that.”

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Alexandria and the FBI declined to comment.

“There’s nothing easy” about international abduction cases, said Stefanie Eye, a State Department division chief for abductions. “You’re dealing with the laws of two or more sovereign nations.” Resolutions are often hard to find.

In 1994, the ex-husband of Catherine Meyer — who would later marry British ambassador Christopher Meyer — abducted her sons to Germany. While in D.C., Catherine Meyer became an advocate on parental abduction issues. Over nine years, she saw her children for just a few hours. The case was only resolved when the boys became adults and free to reunite with her.

That’s the moment Berg is waiting for, he said. He has created Web sites he hopes Gunnar and Kianna will find so “they realize that their father loves them very much and realize I was trying to get ahold of them.”

No one keeps statistics on how often criminal prosecutions are pursued in such cases. But even that doesn’t guarantee a child’s return. The FBI doesn’t have jurisdiction overseas, so it must rely on foreign authorities. Many cases reach an impasse, where children remain with the parent who has them. Often, no one can force an abducting parent to give up a child or return home, said Preston Findlay, a lawyer with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

For the parents on both sides, it’s a frustrating wait.

Gardner is “not a kidnapper, she’s a mom, and a good mom,” Gremminger said. And Berg said he continues to lose sleep wondering if he’ll see his children again. “It’s all you can think about,” he said.

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Parental Abduction – The Philippines

Parental child abduction is not a crime under Philippine law.

Custody disputes are considered civil legal matters that must be resolved between the concerned parties or through the courts in the Philippines. Philippine authorities advise the American Embassy that generally the Philippine courts will give custody of children under the age of seven to the mother, provided there is no evidence that would indicate that the mother is unfit to raise the child. Although there is no treaty in force between the United States and the Philippines on enforcement of judgments, the Philippine courts will also take into consideration child custody decrees issued by foreign courts in deciding disputes regarding children residing in the Philippines.

General Information: The Philippines is not a party to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, nor are there any international or bilateral treaties in force between the Philippines and the United States dealing with international parental child abduction. Therefore, there is no treaty remedy by which the left behind parent would be able to pursue recovery of the child/ren should they be abducted to or wrongfully retained in the Philippines. Once in the Philippines, the child/ren would be completely subject to Philippine law for all matters including custody.

Note: If your child is abducted to The Philippines, you will have very small chances to win the legal dispute there. The Philippines never returns abducted children. The only way is to re-kidnap the child or to make a deal with your ex spouse. It`s all about money in The Philippines.

 

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Six warning signs of possible child abduction

The incidence of international child abductions is greater than official figures reveal.

Some of the warning signs of impending abduction include:

1. The other parent is planning a trip out of the country with your child;
2. Your ex-spouse is coming from overseas, and you are worried they plan to abduct your child;
3. Your ex-spouse wants you to co-sign your child’s passport without good reason;
4. Your  child is a citizen of a country which allows one parent alone to apply for the child’s passport and you have a fear of child abduction;
5. The other parent has a home, a family or other connections overseas and you are concerned that there is no reason for them to stay in your country;
6. The other parent has no substantial property or employment in your country, and nothing keeping them here.

In addition, you should obtain urgent legal advice if:

1. The other parent has already left the country with your child;
2. You are not sure if they plan to return or if you believe they will not return;
3. There is a link to overseas family or property;
4. There is no other significant link to your country.

If any of the above applies to you, you should make an urgent appointment to see a family lawyer for further advice specific to your situation.

How to search for an abducted child

What steps can you take if you want to know the location of a child who you believe has been abducted? Under the Family Law Act, certain people can apply for a location order in relation to a child. A location order is an order made by a court that requires a person to provide information about a child’s location to the court.

The following people can apply for a location order: (Australia)

• a person who a child is to live with in accordance with a parenting order;
• a person who a child is to spend time with in accordance with a parenting order;
• a person who a child is to communicate with under a parenting order;
• a person who has parental responsibility for a child under a parenting order;
• a grandparent of a child;
• any other person concerned with the care, welfare or development of a child;
• For the purposes of the Child Protection Convention, a person (including the Commonwealth Central Authority) may apply to a court for a location order.

If you suspect a child is about to be abducted and taken out of the country you need to act quickly.

Source: Armstrong Legal

 

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International Parental Child Abduction – Re-Kidnap / Re-Abduction

This is what The U.S Department of State recommend parents of abducted children. We disagree. Recover your child as quick as possible, before they get alienated or worse.

Source: U.S Department of State

We strongly discourage taking desperate and possibly illegal measures to return your child to the United States.  Attempts to re-abduct your child back into the United States may:

• Endanger your child and others;
• Prejudice any future judicial efforts you might wish to make in that country to stabilize the situation; and
• Result in your arrest and imprisonment in that country — If you are arrested, the foreign court will not necessarily give weight to the fact that you might have custody of your child in the United States, nor will the United States Embassy be able to secure your release.

If you do succeed in leaving the foreign country with your child, you and anyone who assisted you may be the target of arrest warrants and extradition requests in the U.S. or any other country where you are found.

Finally, there is no guarantee that the chain of abductions would end with the one committed by you.  A parent who has re-abducted a child may have to go to extraordinary lengths to conceal his or her whereabouts, living in permanent fear that the child may be re-abducted again.

IMPORTANT NOTE: United States Consular officers cannot take possession of a child abducted by a parent or aid parents attempting to act in violation of the laws of a foreign country. Consular officers must act in accordance with the laws of the country to which they are assigned.

Emotional Consequences for Your Child:

If you are contemplating such desperate measures, we advise you to consider the emotional trauma inflicted on a child who is a victim of abduction and re-abduction. We discourage re-abduction not only because it is illegal, but also because of possible psychological harm to the child.

ABP World Group Ltd. can help you if your children are abducted or kidnapped. Our skilled operators can locate and recover your child from any country or region in the world.

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Abducted Children – We can bring them back

ABP International Child Recovery Service

The goal of Abp World Group international child recovery services is to locate, negotiate and recover your missing child.

We can dispatch personnel to most locations in the world; we specialize in locating missing children up to ages 18.

Areas of expertise: Parental abduction, Missing children, Kidnappings,
Runaway children and Counselling.

Unfortunately in this day and time parental kidnapping happens and we are here to help you trough this difficult period.
We are aware parental child abduction can be difficult to resolve, but we use professional operatives with the skills and expertise to help find a resolution.

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