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.

 

Is this Cook County Illinois Custody Change Fraud?

This post is from Courthouse Forum – it is another example of  alleged fraud following the same pattern of a corrupt Guardian Ad Litem getting unethical psychological evaluators to write reports biased against battered mothers.  This scam can also be pulled by an unethical attorney representing the batterer, but it is nearly impossible to fend off this fraud when it is being done by the GAL. Anyone wishing to expose this same pattern of legal abuse and fraud, please include the state and county where this is occuring, and the names of the unethical psychologists, unethical lawyers, unethical GALs, and colluding judges in a message to parentalalienationfraud@gmail.com.

I hope that the someone in the know will post the name(s) of the psychological evaluator(s) and GAL(s) involved in the comments section.

Retaliation for exposing judicial corruption: three moms on terrorist list

Three moms who are victims of domestic violence and who lawfully fought for their abused children’s and their own federally-protected rights to freedom from abuse have been falsely labeled by Cook County , Domestic Relations Judge Karen G. Shields as “threats to judges” and “terrorists.”

The report was subpoenaed in April of 2007 which alleges that the three moms engaged in “intimidation of a public official” and “being in restricted areas of the courthouse” without dates or times of the alleged acts. The police report reads that Judge Shields reported a “reasonable apprehension of future bodily harm” by the IFCAA co-members or “another unknown IFCAA associate.” Yet this same false police Judge Shields actually states: “She has not observed or been aware of any overt threats made by MEHRINGER or MANNIX but she is concerned.”

The three moms naively entered the family courts in the year 2000 seeking justice and have found themselves stuck in a system that punishes mothers and exploits children for the financial gain of those who work within the legal system.

They are the moms’ of seven male children, who were once thriving under their care as the primary caretakers. Since entering the so called “family courts” they have either lost custody of their children or have had limited time with their children as a result of their above average income husbands/ex-husbands who were able to use their financial ability to hire high-powered attorneys and psychologists who created false reports.

While we all try to protect our children from harm within our own immediate families, our experiences have shown that children in custody disputes are preyed upon by court-appointed Child attorneys, Custody Evaluators and therapists in a pattern of practice that only benefits them.

In a well established pattern of practice of actors in the Cook County racketeering enterprise, Judge Karen G. Shields uses the legal system as a form of extortion and coercion under duress by keeping families tied up in litigation for years until the parties either are forced to come to an agreement and/or they are financially destroyed. All judgments and orders are by “Agreement” therefore nothing can be appealed and Judge Shield’s unlawful acts remain unexposed and her record appears clean. Pleadings languish un- adjudicated for years without due process of law in a form of coercion under the duress of impoverishment thereby forcing agreed orders and settlements. If litigants fight for their legal rights they are retaliated against just like Judge Karen G. Shields did to the three moms.

The established pattern of practice begins with the appointment of a child attorney whether one is needed or not.  The law states that in most cases one parent can act in the best interest of the children and a court-appointed attorney is not worth the cost.

Our experience has shown that families that are appointed a child attorney recommends a custody evaluator who will create fraudulent reports and use their personal influence to determine the outcome of the evaluation that is supposed to be based on facts and findings of the parties involved. It is by this mechanism that the exploited families endure years and years of unnecessary litigation.

One aspect of the pattern of practice is that families of domestic violence are particularly targeted and exploited in that fraudulent evaluations are created against the protective parent, the significant majority of the time the mothers, without any evidence to support the allegations.

It is also our experience that the evaluators recommend custody to the abuser with full knowledge that the abusive parent will use the legal system as an extension of abuse by filing numerous unsupported pleadings to financially and emotionally destroy the protective parent. The protective parent in most cases is the mother who will then keep the industry going by spending any amount of money to try and protect her children.

Our children’s best interests are being represented by child attorneys and child custody evaluators who have their own agenda at interest. Our children have no recourse for a fraudulent outcome.

The flawed rational for appointing a child attorney and/or child custody evaluator is that parents entering the system, who were presumed competent to raise their children are somehow automatically transformed into whatever label’s the evaluator stigmatizes the un-favored parent in order control the outcome of the case.

As a result, we co-founded and are co-members of a grassroots; non-profit organization named the Illinois Family Court Accountability Advocates (IFCCA) whose objective is to inform, educate, court watch, and support each other.

Forced to represent ourselves after many years of on going litigation we began to document on court transcript all the unlawful, dishonest actions of the family courts. We tried to seek relief and have our cases moved out of the Daley Center to no avail.

We have suffered sever criminal judicial retaliation for exposing the family courts as a racketeering enterprise that is causing irreparable harm to us and especially our children such that Associate Judge Karen G. Shields, who is the daughter of convicted Operation Gambat ex-judge David Shields, initiated a false police report against us on August 16, 2006 in retaliation for the lawful court filings with attached evidence and witnesses of alleged illicit acts by Judge Shields (and others).

On February 27, 2008, the First District Appellate Court issued an opinion in Cook County Case No. 98 CH 11007, Mary Carr and Mario D’Agostino v Michael Lynch, et al., for which, on October 13, 2006, one of the moms testified as a witness, victim, and informant of the corruption in Chicago’s family court for which testimony the aforementioned opinion stated in pertinent part, “Although Mannix did not provide Lynch with any information regarding Judge White, she produced direct evidence regarding several other judges’ involvement in the bribery scheme,” [this evidence includes Judge Karen G. Shields] You can obtain the opinion on the Internet as well as at the Lake County Recorder’s Office Document 6324306 which is some of the “direct evidence” obtained from an organized crime family informant which was the basis of the testimony that resulted in the above finding of judicial crimes.

Judge Shields had a Cook County Sheriff’s Police (CCSP) detective issue a fraudulent Intelligence Bulletin with the moms drivers’ license pictures and personal information and distributed it throughout Cook and Lake Counties court houses. The three moms names and information was turned over to the Illinois Statewide Terrorism Intelligence Agency.

How can moms fighting for justice be on a terrorist list? Any family court judge who puts three exemplary moms, who have no criminal records, on a state wide terrorist list must be covering something up. An investigation should be conducted.

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