Link to article can be found here.

There is a new ‘research’ group called SHERA who undertake research and propagate hostility to ‘parental alienation’ which they see as a form of ‘domestic abuse perpetrator behaviour’.  

They propose new terminology: ‘Child and Mother Sabotage’ (CAMS) as ‘a preferable term for how perpetrator fathers intentionally sabotage the child-mother connection’ and ‘Court and Perpetrator Induced Trauma’ for what mothers suffer in court when there are abuse allegations.   

They say “The system is loaded against abused women. Courts are unsympathetic to them, and the men’s rights group Families Need Fathers was recently attended by the Family Court President and CAFCASS representatives….’  Victimhood in action.

Members can read Karen Woodall’s debunking of this damaging concept. (LINK) 

As our supporters well know, we are very emphatically not a ‘men’s rights group’. Rather we support the clause of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, that: 

‘States parties shall respect the rights of a children who is separated from one or both parents to maintain personal relations and direct contact with both parents on a regular basis, except if it is contrary to the child’s best interests.’  

We contrast the large sample size and more rigorous research methods of, for example, Ben Hine’s research with that of SHERA, which uses very small samples of cases to fit a pre-determined narrative. 

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