Please welcome Christine Giancarlo author of Parentectomy: A narrative ethnography of 30 cases of parental alienation and what to do about it
Christine Giancarlo will be awarding a $15 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
Parentectomy: A narrative ethnography of 30 cases of parental alienation and what to do about it
by Christine Giancarlo
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GENRE: Non-fiction
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BLURB:
When parents separate and divorce, kids come last in family law. Should children's welfare be measured in "billable hours"? Christine Giancarlo thinks kids come first and need both parents. Parentectomy moves us toward that goal... for the sake of the children.
Based on Dr. Giancarlo's peer-reviewed research study, Kids Come Last: The Effect of Family Law Involvement in Parental Alienation, this book tells, in their own voices, the stories of thirty loving, capable and dependable parents who, nonetheless, were removed from their children's lives. It is also the author's own journey through the devastation caused by parental alienation.
This book sheds light on an urgent social crisis, enabled by a broken family law system. An equitable and just model for eliminating this form of child abuse is proposed with an urgent plea for its implementation.
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EXCERPT:
How does family law involvement affect parental alienation outcomes?
Alienated parents turn to Family Law and the judicial system when they have exhausted other means of intervention and reconciliation to help their children. Legal involvement is a last-ditch effort which undoubtedly carries enormous costs in terms of children’s distress, increased alienation tactics by the alienating parent, and emotional and financial hardship, sometimes ruin, for the targeted parent.
The 30 stories of parental alienation in this book are the result of my face-to-face, one-on-one recorded interviews with each of these targeted parents and two grandparents. Our published study, Kids Come Last, found that instead of the legal system providing relief and rebuilding for affected families, harm increased. We discovered four major barriers to effective resolution of parental alienation34. Here is what we found:
1. Invoking legal involvement exacerbates the alienation.
2. Alienating parents are uncooperative in potential resolution initiatives.
3. Legal professionals maximize their profits by prolonging these cases.
4. Legal and non-legal, court-directed professionals are ill-equipped to manage alienation clients and cases.
34 Giancarlo & Rottmann, 2015
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Christine Giancarlo is an applied anthropologist at Mount Royal University since 1992. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Services from Capella University, Minnesota, and an M.A. in Primatology from the University of Calgary, Alberta. Growing up with two loving parents, four brothers and being blessed with her own children, Devon and Carmen, inform her holistic perspective on the family. Christine resides in Calgary with her partner, Bert, and their dog, Gavin.
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE
Christine Giancarlo will be awarding a $15 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f3875
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ReplyDeleteWelcome to the Angel's blog. I hope you have a great tour. Allana Angel
ReplyDeleteGood morning, readers and bloggers! Thanks for checking out my book, Parentectomy. Parental Alienation is a widespread, urgent issue and a major cause of depression and anxiety in those children (and later, adults) subjected to it. Children who are taught to hate one of their parents are prevented from their healthy parent's influence in their lives. These kids are enmeshed with their mentally-unhealthy parent whose needs override their own. My book explains the cause and effect of this crisis in a very personal way, since my then-husband was a targeted parent, and includes 29 other stories (all verified) of alienated parents and their children. The book concludes with recommendations for appropriate interventions and a means for eradication.
ReplyDeleteThank you everyone for your comments and interest in reading Parentectomy. Happy reading and blogging!
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