Sommerauer71: Hi hrt41
You and I have discussed your case before.
Catherine Meyer is a lady who had her children taken from her, 11 years ago.
By her ex husband.
My own children were taken by mine, to another country, it took me a long time to have them returned.
Anyway, her boys, she has not seen for 11 years.
She is married to the ex British Ambassador to the US.
She has been through many courts to have her boys returned, to no avail.
They are so severly alienated, they are now adults.
Parental Alienation Syndrome is something that is not recognised, but exists...
I could get no court in the UK to recognise this, I had to wait, for a long time to get my children back. And all over money, it took me four long, long years to recover their minds, with love, patience and support...
I cannot and will not support any person who uses their children as pawns, as a personal ATM machine, contact and child support are two very different areas.
Coming from two parents who fought over me, bitterly and being dragged from country to country as a little one, and then to have it happen to my own children is something that pains me.
To bring me to a point, about judges, people are right, they in Family Law, want an easy solution, the more difficult cases are allowed to slip through the net.
And what are natural, loving relationships, are allowed to be eroded...
And that is where it sticks in my heart, we cannot stop what the other parent says, but Family Law, in the UK and the US could be changed, to benefit the children.
A subject that runs very deep with me, very deep as I know it does you.
Yeah, and they talk about doing what's best for the child...but I look at it and wonder if what happened really was the best. My youngest son ended up in a residential treatment facility out of state for over a year instead of getting the chance to come back & live with me to see if that would help him. After all his time there, they've said he won't be able to live on his own for several years yet (they diagnosed him with aspergers while he was on metrazipine & risperdahl).
All I can do is wait & see if they're ever able to make the decision to contact me.
In the meantime....life goes on and I've got to try and make the best of it and find someone to share my life with and be happy.
So.....how's your weekend been?
