Sometimes we are glib. Sometimes we are silly, or outrageous. With a topic like parental alienation, we see no room for silliness; too many Virginia men suffer from being the victim of what clinicians call Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS). PAS pits the normally unbroken circle of family members against one another. If you as a Virginia father are suffering from the ...
The New Year has brought with it many householders determined to stay on budgets, so they sit down in earnest and divvy up paychecks to be spent on housing, food, and so on. If, like Virginia’s legislators, they do this without regard to actual income and expenses, their budgets are doomed. In similar fashion, Virginia’s lawmakers often stipulate programs but do not provide ...
You and your wife divorced several years ago. She has sole custody of Diane and Diego, who are now ages 7 and 11. Diego, during one visitation weekend, tells you he comes home after school and, until his mother (your ex-wife) gets home, he is responsible for Diane. Sometimes that is a matter of minutes; other days, he says, she ...
The word “quiz” has often been claimed to be a purpose-built word to win a bet. Yet we have evidence from the Online Etymology Dictionary1 that this is not the case. Quiz was once used as a noun to describe a person who was a little … off, let’s say. Anyway, we thought you might like to brush up on ...
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks has a lodge in Virginia Beach, BPOE #2268, that tells you right up front, it “ain’t your Daddy’s lodge.” The Benevolent and Protective Order is a great support group, but not for the kind of protective order you may need if your angry ex-wife is threatening you with bodily harm. Virginia has three ...
An old and venerated idea in psychology is summed up in Maslow’s Hierarchy. For any person to thrive, needs must be met in an ordered progression from basic survival to psychological needs to self-actualization. A parent plays a crucial role in any child’s upbringing, so most of the burden for fulfilling a helpless son’s or daughter’s needs falls to Mom ...
What is an emergency to one person is not important to another. Consider the 11-year-old, who feels that a forgotten school lunch box is a life-altering emergency requiring calls to Dad and interrupted work schedules. Emergency child custody, similarly, is a matter of interpretation. What could your ex-wife do that would possibly constitute an emergency? 1. Illegal Drugs Virginia, like ...
Parental alienation, also called parental alignment, is considered a form of abuse. Although you won’t see physical wounds or scars on a child, children suffering from the effects of parental alienation can be scarred both emotionally and psychologically for life. While Parental Alienation Syndrome is a relatively new term that’s not wholly embraced by the psychiatric profession, the negative impacts ...