Good Morning,

working up some information on Missing & Exploited Children--especially to help a client who claims to be a victim 27 years ago.

I want to believe, but I don't understand.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service missing and exploited children resources

Association of Missing & Exploited Children Organizations can help if your child is abducted.

But what if your child was abducted 20 years ago?

Parental Alienation Syndrome:

Hugs to Heartbreak: A Parent’s Journey Through Parental Alienation Syndrome is a website and book from Jeff Opperman and Dr. David Israel.

The late Dr. Richard A. Gardner, author of The Parental Alienation Syndrome: A Guide of Legal and Mental Health Professionals, coined the term parental alienation almost 20 years ago to characterize the breakdown of previously normal, healthy parent/child relationships during divorce and child custody cases.

PAS is ultimately a force started by one alienating parent & supported by the child. The victim is the alienated parent. For this parent the therapeutic work is grief resoultion--if resoultion can be found. As Dr. Barbara Steinberg writes, "it is imperative that you forgive the other parent." This is prep work for the healthy assimulating of the experience into your life.