Interesting. Extracts:

Ivan Lewis, the former Labour MP investigated over sexual harassment allegations now running as an independent member of parliament used the debate to bring up parental alienation, and offered this view:

“I have only recently become involved in this campaign on parental alienation. Hundreds if not thousands of parents are estranged from their children because the resident parent seeks to manipulate the child against a non-resident parent for no reason whatsoever.  Is it not time that we found a legal framework… to tackle this problem?”

A significant majority of resident parents are still mothers, which has led those engaged in the parental alienation debate to view gender as an inherent characteristic of those engaging in alienating behaviour. Data suggests that there are around 1.8 million single parents, of which 90% are single mothers…

David Gauke [Justice Secretary, sponsor of The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill]:

“This Bill is by no means anti-marriage…. [it]  is a Bill for anyone who agrees that the end of a relationship should be a time of reflection, and not of manufactured conflict.”

“The current requirement incentivises that sense of attribution of fault, which does nothing to ensure that the relationship between the two parents can be as strong as possible, and it is the children who lose out in those circumstances.”

“In the context of domestic abuse, for example, it is striking how the likes of Women’s Aid have been very supportive of these measures because of their concern that there might be women trapped in marriages who do not want to attribute blame because they feel that may result in a further deterioration in the relationship.” [J4MB emphasis]

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