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Follow on Google News | Members of BAC-Home aggravated over subjective report on Parental Child AbductionBAC-Home (Bring Abducted Children Home) has announced their disappointment and frustration over the federally funded report by The Hague Domestic Violence Project, on domestic and international parental child abduction.
By: BAC-Home Dr. Amy Savoie, the stepmother of two abducted children, taken to Japan last year after her husband’s ex-wife broke a court order and illegally kidnapped the children from Tennessee, wrote the Tennessean’s community opinion article, “U.S. must get tough on Japan for harboring kidnappers”(Savoie, 2010. After Dr. Christopher Savoie was unsuccessful in recovering his children, he and other left-behind parents formed an organization to deal with the ongoing problems Japan is having with its Western allies. Japan remains to be the only G8 nation failing to recognize the epidemic of kidnapping parents that successfully hide within their country. Japan’ The report** by Dr. Edleson and article by Time, address only a select target of mother’s who have abducted and leaves out all abductors that were men. Further, the report also fails to interview a single child that has been kidnapped. The report does not rely on or discuss pre-abduction police reports of abuse, which would be an official record to prove or disprove their findings. Dr. Edleson in a comment posted under the Time magazine article, states that Parental Alienation has been debunked. However, he only provides a link to another subjective report that has been written to support mothers and women of violence. This one-sided and sexist article proves Professor Edleson does not apprehend nor understand the issue of International Parental Abduction and the damages it creates for left behind parents and the abducted child. According to Dr. Edleson’s website, he spoke in Japan on July 2010. His timing came on the heels of House Resolution 1326’s announcement. H. Res. 1326 condemns Japan for human rights violations in the matter of parental child abduction. It was passed on September 28, 2010 by a 416 – 1vote, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) being the only congressional representative to vote against the resolution. Dr. Edleson’s focus is on domestic violence and abuse; however, according to the report it is only on a select group and audience. Randy Collins, a left-behind parent, stated, “It appears that the entire basis of his article (Iverac, 2010) is on the words of very specific women who help him in reaching a conclusion he wanted to reach to begin with. There is no mention of Japan being the 2nd largest offender of Parental Abductions in the world. There is no mention of the overwhelming passage of H Res 1326”. Ken Connelly, a former parentally abducted child and advocate stated, “What bothers me most about his findings is that they were not based upon the whole facts. Anyone can look through a straw and see the world they want. You only see a portion of the world; and in this case, you are using the shaded lens Dr. Edleson and his team have provided. My abduction destroyed my family, trust and entire belief system. By the time my father was apprehended I would have defended him in court—not because he was right or that what he said happened—like other abducted children, you begin to believe the lies. Heaven forbid the judge would have allowed me to testify in that state of confusion. I fear that had Dr. Edleson been the presiding therapist and my father been a female, he would have sent me back to that nightmare”. Since 1983, the Department of Justice has conservatively reported 6,877,000 children abducted by parents. In comparison, the last Florida census claimed 6 million children under the age of 18 living in their state—that is a staggering number to compare. The first parental kidnapping laws go back to the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. Felony interstate abductions were prosecuted as early as 1983. BAC-Home feels that this epidemic must end and the law must not only be enforced but also protected. Further, the Department of Justice should not be sponsoring gender biased, subjective and unscientific research, which is predesigned to alienate the child-victim and father from its target base. * Savoie, Amy. (2010). u.s. must get tough on japan for harboring kidnappers. The Tennessean, Retrieved from http://blogs.tennessean.com/ * Iverac, Mirela. (2010). Protecting kids: rethinking the hague convention. Time, Retrieved from http://www.time.com/ **Dr. Jeffrey Edleson and The The Hague Domestic Violence Project report can be found at: http://www.haguedv.org/ # # # BAC-Home (Bring Abducted Children Home) is an organization set up to bring awareness to Internationally abducted children, assist in the recovery of children abducted internationally, and end parental alienation. End
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