NOW Fires Back at Fathers & Families over DSM Campaign

**Zuberi** · 9th-March-2010

Article here. Excerpt:
'A group of 50 mental health experts from 10 countries are part of an effort to add Parental Alienation Disorder to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM V), the American Psychiatric Association’s “bible” of diagnoses. This scientific coalition is led by psychiatrist William Bernet, who explains that adding PAD to DSM “would spur insurance coverage, stimulate more systematic research, lend credence to a charge of parental alienation in court, and raise the odds that children would get timely treatment.”
Fathers & Families wants to ensure that the DSM-5 Task Force is aware of the scope and severity of Parental Alienation. To this end, in December we asked our supporters to write the Task Force to urge them to consider including Parental Alienation Disorder in DSM-5. As usual, the response was overwhelming. It also helped lead to progress–while as expected the newly-released draft version does not specifically include Parental Alienation Disorder, the DSM-5 Task Force has now listed Parental Alienation Disorder among the "Conditions Proposed by Outside Sources... that are still under consideration by the work groups."
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The National Organization for Women has learned about our efforts and is concerned about them. They have now sent out an Action Alert to counter our campaign.

Checkout the letter from those retards at N.O.W, it's priceless!

**rohara** · 9th-March-2010

From NOW:

Parental Alienation Syndrome has now morphed into Parental Alienation Disorder thanks to the fathers’ rights organizations who are wildly pushing this through, and why wouldn’t they? It benefits the abuser and discriminates against the victims of abuse, which are overwhelmingly women.

Again, in spite of all of the facts that are now known and being increasingly publisized about domestic violence and child abuse NOW is still counting on the age old smear campaign against all men. Unfortunately it may very well work.

Again from NOW:

This gender specific, abuse excuse, junk science can not be allowed to enter into the scientific community as there is nothing scientific about a syndrome/disorder whose only symptoms are a uterus, divorce papers, and bruises. I ask that you all to take action against legitimizing this outrageous theory by e-mailing the APA and asking your groups to do the same.

I have never heard any assertion, EVER, from any fathers rights group, MRA, or psychologist stating that only women engage in this behavior. It has simply been stated that it is "mostly the mother" that engages in it. But then again, NOW can always count on anti male laguage and feminist hysteria to make an impact. I can only hope that the APA can see through their bullshit!