Maternal Deprivation Research

There have been numerous studies regarding Maternal Deprivation, with a large source of information coming from Bowlby, based on Spitz and Goldfarb, and also from unethical animal experimentation. Overwhelmingly, research shows that severing this natural bond between a mother and child causes severe emotional and behavioral problems, such as depression and psychosis. The phrase maternal deprivation is the terminology used in the early work of psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, John Bowlby on the effects of separating infants and young children from their mother. Some of the research was previously used to discourage mothers from working or using childcare, but it seems important to revive these studies as children are being deprived of their mothers intentionally by abusive men who claim to be “parentally alienated” in an ongoing scandal that rivals that of the Catholic Priest sexual abuse cover up.  

Maternal Deprivation Abuse (MDA), has been identified as occurring with great frequency in legal proceedings, with specific unethical lawyers, psychologists, and judges perpetrating the the same scam on mother after mother with similar horrific results for the children. There has been death by suicide, suicide attempts, depression, academic distress, retaliation by a child against a PAS claiming father, and untold misery for the victimized children and mothers.

Based on Bolwby’s theories, Maternally Deprivation affects children as follows:

• Complete or almost complete deprivation could “entirely cripple the capacity to make relationships.”
• Partial deprivation could result in acute anxiety, depression, neediness and powerful emotions which the child could not regulate.
• The end product of such psychic disturbance could be neurosis and instability of character.(Bowlby J. (1951) pps. 11–12)

 

“Mother love in infancy and childhood is as important for mental health as are vitamins and proteins for physical health.” (Bowlby, 1953.)  Child psychoanalyst John Bowlby (1907–1990). 

 

Maternal Deprivation Abuse

Maternal Deprivation, or Motherlessness, is occurring with alarming frequency due to the unethical treatment of women and children in family court. Maternal Deprivation is inflicting abuse by severing the mother-child bond. It is a form of abuse that men inflict on both the mother and children, especially men who claim they are “parentally alienated” from their children when there are complaints of abusive treatment by the father.

Maternal Deprivation occurs when men seek to keep their children from being raised by their mothers who are the children’s natural caretakers. Some men murder the mothers of their own children. Others seek to sever the maternal bonds by making false allegations of fictitious psychological syndromes in a deliberate effort to change custody and/or keep the child from having contact with their mother when there are legal proceedings. A twisted form of Maternal Deprivation is to kill the children, so that the mother will be left to suffer. Sometimes there are family annihilation murders where the father kills the children and himself (or dies by cop), but the mother is not killed because she has received protective orders and her children have not as in the case of Jessica Gonzales.  

In seeking to define this form of abuse certain common elements are found in the Maternal Deprivation scenario as follows:

• History of domestic abuse that could be physical, psychological, sexual, and/or social abuse occurring on or off again, occasionally, or chronically which could be mild, moderate, or severe, including homicidal and/or suicidal threats. 
• Legal proceedings relating to abuse
• Hiring of “Fathers Rights” attorney
• Use of “Hired Gun” mental health professionals to make accusations of psychological disorder against the mother and children in deliberate effort to excuse abuse and change custody or grant visitation that is contrary to safety concerns. Another name for these unethical professionals are “Whores of the Courts“
• Raising claims of “psychological disorders” against the mother such as “Parental Alienation Syndrome” (PAS), Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome, Malicious Mother Syndrome, Lying Litigant Syndrome, Hostile Aggressive Parenting or any other mother-blaming psychological disorder that can be used by the unethical professional to re-victimize the victims.
• Infliction of “Legal Abuse” by continually and excessively filing motions so that the mother continually has to defend herself and her child(ren) causing financial and emotional devastation.
• Can occur in response to child support legal proceedings as retaliation.

The intent of “Maternal Deprivation” is to punish the mother and the child for revealing the abuse and to falsely claim that they are not abusive. This very commonly occurs as there are more and more “abuse-excuse” parental alienation accusing professionals who use this scientifically invalid theory over and over to achieve specific goals of the person paying them. Maternal Deprivation can also occur in response to child support legal proceedings. When occurring in this manner, Maternal Deprivation is a response to the financial demands as retaliation. Suddenly the father who had little prior involvement wants to take the kids half the time to avoid child support obligations, etc. When the men are really abusive, they ask for sole custody and demand the mother of the child pay them.

Although some people call this “Maternal Alienation”, a distinction needs to be made as the pro-pedophilia “Parental Alienation Syndrome” and the use of the word “Alienation” are most often used AGAINST battered women and abused children. There needs to be a distinction between the phony psychological syndrome and the intentional infliction of abuse on a mother and child by intentionally severing their natural bond. This distinction can best be made by NOT using the label of “Alienation” which will always be associated with the pro-pedophilia monster Doctor Richard Gardner.

Some of the characteristics of the especially heinous abusers who inflict Maternal Deprivation include but are not limited to the following:

• Angry
• Abusive
• Violent
• Coercive
• Controlling
• Threatening
• Intimidating
• Demanding
• Domineering
• Harassing
• Stalking
• Tyrannical
• Oppressive
• Forceful
• Manipulative
• Deceptive
• Unethical
• Un-empathetic (Lacks Empathy)
• Entitled
• Immature
• Self-centered
• Neglectful
• Guilt inducing
• Pushy
• Intentionally tries to humiliate mother and/or child
• Harsh, rigid and punitive parenting style
• Outrage at child’s challenge of authority
• May use force to reassert parental position
• Dismissive of child’s feelings and negative attitudes
• Vents rage, blames mother for “brainwashing” child and takes no responsibility
• Challenges child’s beliefs and/or attitudes and tries to convince them otherwise
• Inept and unempathic pursuit of child, pushes calls and letters, unannounced or embarrassing visits 

There is a distinct overlap of the intimate terrorist type domestic violence abuser with the Maternal Deprivation abusers as follows:

 

• Coercion and threats
• Intimidation
• Emotional abuse
• Isolation
• Minimizing, denying and blaming (Hallmarks of PAS)
• Using children
• Economic abuse
• Male privilege

The people who most often engage in Maternal Deprivation Abuse are most often: 

• Abusive men
• Vindictive second wives who don’t want to deal with the real mother of the children
• Paternal grandparents who raised dysfunctional children (abusers)

The effects of Maternal Deprivation often cause the children to become psychotic, depressed, and sometimes suicidal or to have suicidal ideations. Another terrible reaction is when the child retaliates against the parent who accuses Parental Alienation Syndrome as in a Texas case where the child killed his father. Other times when the Maternal Deprivation abuser completely takes over the will of the child by using brainwashing techniques similar to those used in prison camps where deprivation and isolation are used to force ideological changes in captives, these children often have a sort of trauma-bonding with the abuser and model their behavior. Sometimes these children will also abuse the mother in the same manner as the father. Another generation is created to carry on the abuse, and will likely do the same to their own spouse and children.

 

 

 

For more articles involving Maternal Deprivation:

Failure of Family Court System Leads To Death and Devastation

Doctor Who Intentionally Severs Bonds With Mothers Is a Monster

Child in imminent fear shoots father – vindicated in appeal – PAS fraud nightmare

Cincinatti PAS

VAWnet Joan Meier on PAS-Parental Alienation Syndrome & Parental Alienation: Research Reviews

And many more articles throughout Battered Mothers Lose Children to Abusers and all the links on the sidebar.

Maternal Deprivation Abuse will be featured on BMLCTA Blog in an effort to wipe out this heinous crime against mothers and children.

 

Doctor Who Intentionally Severs Bonds With Mothers Is a Monster

This Dr. Harry Harlow was not just unsympathetic, but a monster just like the unethical doctors who forcefully remove children from loving mothers by claiming parental alienation to give them to their abusers. Why do they do this? Because they get paid by the abuser to do this! It’s a fraud on the courts that needs to end!

From the Top Ten Unethical Psychological Experiments
The Well of Despair 1960

     Dr. Harry Harlow was an unsympathetic person, using terms like the rape rack and iron maiden in his experiments. He is most well-known for the experiments he conducted on rhesus monkeys concerning social isolation. Dr. Harlow took infant rhesus monkeys who had already bonded with their mothers and placed them in a stainless steel vertical chamber device alone with no contact in order to sever those bonds. They were kept in the chambers for up to one year. Many of these monkeys came out of the chamber psychotic, and many did not recover. Dr. Harlow concluded that even a happy, normal childhood was no defense against depression, while science writer Deborah Blum called these, common sense results.
     Gene Sackett of the University of Washington in Seattle, one of Harlows doctoral students, stated he believes the animal liberation movement in the U.S. was born as a result of Harlows experiments. William Mason, one of Harlows students, said that Harlow kept this going to the point where it was clear to many people that the work was really violating ordinary sensibilities, that anybody with respect for life or people would find this offensive. Its as if he sat down and said, Im only going to be around another ten years. What Id like to do, then, is leave a great big mess behind. If that was his aim, he did a perfect job.

Any doctor removing a child from their mother using the fraudulent theory of parental alienation or other phony psychobabble BS needs to be exposed for the monsters they are. They come up with phony rhetoric and say it in a convincing manner, much like they did back in Salem when they accused women of witchcraft.  

This Parental Alienation Custody Change Fraud is going to go down in history as one of the most unethical psychological social engineering experiments of all time. The scandal is on the same level as the cover up of sexual abuse by the Catholic Church. It’s time people start to wake up and recognize that these doctors are covering up for all types of domestic abuse against women and children for PROFIT.

If you click on the links regarding Dr. Harry Harlow, you will find out that he received awards from psychological associations. Maybe this will start to get people thinking that there are groups of people doing unethical experiments and they do support each other on their theories and cover up for each other. The APA also published the Rind Study which tried to justify child sexual abuse as being acceptable and not that harmful to children. There is a common thread between all of these sick studies that push quack theories to justify unacceptable behavior. Only with Parental Alienation Theory, the whole idea is to call the victims liars which re-victimizes them. All that is needed to do this is to pay an unethical doctor to testify who will ignore real evidence and substitute in their fraudulent rhetoric.

When people realized the horrible treatment of animals that Harlow inflicted, the result was an animal liberation movement. What needs to happen as a result of these unethical parental alienation scams is for children to have a liberation movement and demand to have rights to be heard and to make their own decisions.

And Intentionally Scaring Monkeys

Deputy Paul Terry told his wife if he can’t have the kids, no one can.

From Behind the Blue Wall

In another horrible Florida case, Judge Bob Wattles believes a man was abused over the mother whose children’s lives were in danger. 

Deputy Paul Terry told his wife if he can’t have the kids, no one can.

Woman Talks To Local 6 About Husband Killing Their Children
Woman Wants Others To Learn From Story
local6.com
Stephen Stock
November 4, 2008
UPDATED: November 6, 2008

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A woman whose estranged husband shot and killed their two children before killing himself talked to Local 6 News in an effort to help others who are dealing with personal tragedies.

Leigh Ann Dyal discussed the story with Local 6 News reporter Donald Forbes in her first television interview since the incident.

Dyal’s estranged husband, Paul Terry, who was a detective and 14-year veteran of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, shot and killed their two children with his department-issued gun while the children were sleeping in their mother’s bed in their Windermere home in 2005.

Terry shot Elyse Erin Terry, 10, and Ian Tyler Terry, 8, before shooting himself 12 hours later.

“Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought he would have taken a gun and shot them in the head,” Dyal said. “I made deals with the devil, just to have (my children) come back for just one day — just one day — please let me have my children for one more day. And they’re not here, and they’ll never be here, and I’ve had to accept that — and it’s the hardest thing. People say the hardest thing you do is bury your children. They are 100 percent correct.”

Dyal said she still has questions about the shootings.

“Which one did he shoot first? Did my other child wake up? Who did he choose first? Why did he do it? What was the reasoning behind it? They are questions that I ask myself constantly, and there are no answers,” Dyal said.

Dyal said she suffered through years of mental abuse and told Terry on Sept. 19, 2005, that she was filing for a divorce.

“Those were his last words to me on that night, ‘Well, if I can’t have (the children), nobody can have them.,” Dyal said.

Four days later, Terry had a 2-inch gash on his neck and claimed that his wife had attacked him. He got a restraining order against her, which placed the children in his temporary custody. The shootings occurred about two weeks later.

“I had to bury my children because somebody took it upon themselves to do whatever they could to ruin my life just because they could,” Dyal said.

Dyal said she hopes others can learn from her story.

“You can exist,” Dyal said.

“Is that what it is? Existing?” Forbes asked.

“Some days I just feel like I exist. I just bang into walls some days. My mind is not where it should be. I just find I always have to have a goal to look forward to,” Dyal said.

Three months after the shootings, Dyal moved back into the home where her children were killed.

“I can look around and have a good memory. It’s not horrible memories — that’s what people don’t understand. People think I would have these horrible memories,” Dyal said. “I sit in their bedrooms and look around and remember tucking them at night.”

Dyal said her home is filled with photos of her children and their toys.

“This is what I have. I know my children are in heaven but this is all I have — this box, and I don’t even know what to do with their urns. I’m at such a loss. Everybody says you have to move on, but it’s very difficult,” Dyal said.

Dyal said she cries almost every day over the loss of family but keeps pressing on.

“I want to give hope to people and to honor my children that I can survive. You can survive, people. (You) can survive a catastrophic loss,” Dyal said. “Talk to yourself every day. You force yourself to get out of bed — that is a big step because there are many days I want to stay in bed.”

Dyal said she no longer blames herself.

“Three years later I know that I am going to see my children again in heaven, and my former husband will never see them again because he is rotting in hell,” Dyal said.

Dyal said she sometimes “hears” her children helping her move on.

“I just hear them telling me, ‘Mommy, you’re OK. We’re OK, we’re OK. You’re going to be OK,” Dyal said.

Dyal, who has remarried, said hope is the biggest lesson others who are struggling can learn.

http://www.local6.com/problemsolvers/17888011/detail.html

Records: Violence Began Long Before Murder-Suicide
POSTED: 7:09 pm EDT October 11, 2005
WESH.COM

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Orange County Sheriff’s Office is reeling from the suicide of a deputy and the murders of his two children. All three died from gunshot wounds to the head, the Medical Examiner said.

Records from Deputy Paul Terry’s personnel file and from divorce proceedings show a man of contradictions.

He was a 14-year sheriff’s office veteran with much training in guns and conflict, yet he said he feared his wife, WESH 2 News reported.

He earned commendations, yet his supervisors took him to task for being self-serving and not being a team player.

But none of those records give any indication Terry would kill his children and then himself.

Records show the violence inside Terry’s Windermere home began long before Monday’s double-murder suicide. The WESH 2 I-Team obtained call records dating back to 2001 showing deputies responded 10 different times to Paul and Leigh Ann Terry’s home.

Reports show four of those calls were to investigate domestic abuse. No criminal charges were ever filed against anyone.

Judge Bob Wattles became involved when Paul Terry asked for and received a temporary injunction to protect himself from his wife. In court records, Terry stated he feared for his own and his children’s safety. As proof, he filed grainy black-and-white photos which he claimed show where his wife cut his neck.

Terry’s wife, Leigh Ann, vehemently denied those charges, and Wattles found little evidence to support.

“I began to be convinced that Mrs. Terry wasn’t as bad as the paperwork was saying she was,” Wattles said.

Wattles had ordered Paul Terry to bring his two children, Ian and Elyse, to his courtroom Monday afternoon for a child custody hearing in Paul and Leigh Ann’s Terry’s marital separation fight.

When they didn’t show, the court held a hearing about the custody of the two children without them.

“If I had any concern or thought at all that it was going to be anything close to this, even violence against Mrs. Terry out of the house, we would have taken whatever measures necessary to protect the children and Mrs. Terry,” Wattles said.

Another contradiction is the fact that Terry’s personnel file is stuffed full of commendations and letters from citizens thanking him for various instances of service. But that same file also has supervisors taking Terry to task for not being a team player, being slow to clear cases as a detective and being too concerned with earning commendations and letters of praise than solving cases.

http://www.wesh.com/news/5086747/detail.html

To read more on this story, click on Behind the Blue Wall