Throw her into an institution

Just throw her into an institution? This is cooperative parenting? This is in the best interest of the child?

"Dear Mom...I had to go to Susan Boyans EEEEEUUUU!!!! She said that you had a sickness. I yelled at her alot and said she was lieng and eager for money. She said I was desparate. So I yelled at her more. Then she said if I did that more I would be put in an institution so I stopped."

A fit, primary caretaker, a mom who raised her daughter from infancy for 11 years hasn't seen this child, her daughter for two years thanks to Susan Boyan's Cooperative Parenting techniques. Boyan uses the thoroughly debunked junk science of the now deceased Dr. Richard Gardner, who wrote Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) as a legal strategy to protect pedophiles from criminal prosecution by switching the venue to family courts.

Among Gardner's children techniques are deprogramming and Threat Therapy and recommending that children and mothers be sent to juvenile detention centers and jail for reporting abuse.

"Therapists who work with PAS children must be comfortable with alternative methods of therapy, therapy that involves an authoritarian approach to the treatment.... They must be comfortable working without the traditional confidentiality so necessary to standard treatment. They must be comfortable threatening alienating parents as well as children that there will be consequences if they violate the court-ordered visitation program. Such therapists must be comfortable with confrontational approaches, the purpose of which is to deprogram PAS children.... What is in their best interests in PAS cases is that the children be forced to visit with the alienated parent. Therapists who are not comfortable with what I call "threat therapy" should not be working with PAS families.

For more on how Gardner's Threat Therapy worked as a legal child custody leading to a teenager's suicide, click here.

And Boyan's Cooperative Parenting is expensive, $70 per hour for a 'psychoeducational' approach.

For 2 bits and a wheaties box top, anyone can be a parent coordinator. Actually, all it costs is $425 and three days of your time, except at Los Angeles Collaborative Family Law Association's Collaborative Family Law Interdisciplinary Training Two-Day Experiential Training, which only saps two days of your time and energy and is $100-200 more expensive.

I blogged about Boyan a few weeks ago. You can read about it here. Then I read the following letter from a 12-year-old girl who misses her mom. She's old enough to decide who she wants to live with in the State of Georgia. See HB 369:

(3)(A) In all cases in which the child has reached the age of 14 years, the child shall have the right to select the parent with whom he or she desires to live. The child´s selection shall be controlling, unless the parent so selected is determined not to be a fit and proper person to have the custody of the child.

(B) In all cases in which the child has reached the age of at least 11 but not 14 years, the court shall consider the desires, if any, and educational needs of the child in determining which parent shall have custody. The court shall have complete discretion in making this determination, and the child´s desires are not controlling. The court shall further have broad discretion as to how the child´s desires are to be considered, including through the report of a guardian ad litem. The best interest of the child standard shall be controlling.

(C) The desire of a child who has reached the age of 11 years but not 14 years shall not, in and of itself, constitute a material change of conditions or circumstances in any action seeking a modification or change in the custody of that child.

For more on Cooperative Law click on the following links and please do read the child's letter to her mom.