Father Supremacist Glenn Sacks, caught with his pants down

 

Glenn Sacks Caught With His Pants Down

Filed under: Activism, Child Custody Issues, Child custody for fathers, Children and Domestic Violence, Children who witness abuse, Domestic Abuse, Domestic Relations,Domestic Violence, Dr. Richard Gardner, Family Court Reform, Family Courts, Family Rights, Financing Fathers, Glenn Sacks, Holly Collins, Jennifer Collins, Maternal Deprivation, Non-custodial Mothers, Noncustodial Mothers, Parental Alienation Syndrome, father custody, parental alienation — justice4mothers @ 7:54 pm

Actually the full title, which comes from Family Court Matters, is:

Male Supremacist Glenn Sacks, caught with his pants down, Re: Joyce Murphy case in San Diego, uses this occasion to backhand Shockome/Collins cases, and tries to regain his upright & righteous standing as expert on “false allegations”

Gotta love my friend, she is wordy sometimes but she speaks with great wisdom.  Most of us “feminists” as Glenn likes to call us, Feminazi’s to others, were taken aback by his column in Men’s Daily News.

As Glenn starts out: The Feminist Family Law Movement claims that abusive fathers often employ Parental Alienation as a way to wrest custody from protective mothers in family court. They push for reforms which will make it easier to deny fathers shared custody or visitation rights based on unsubstantiated abuse claims. They also push for laws to exclude evidence of Parental Alienation in family law proceedings.

Abusive fathers DO often employ this tactic…this is well know in the professional bodies that have come out against it, like the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and the National District Attorneys Association.  This was testified to in Senate hearings byCatherine Pierce recently.  Personally I have had discussions with legislators and law professors on the subject.  I know it as an abused woman whose abuser has her children, and growing up as a child who was forced to be with my mother’s abuser until he got tired of taking care of us and put us in foster homes to keep us away from her.  I live it everyday as I wake up in my car to go to work to have my wages taken and given to my abuser who makes far, far more money than I do.   So I take it personally when someone goes on and on about “unsubstantiated abuse claims.”

Glenn’s spewing continues:  The FFLM has promoted several cause celebre cases in recent years as a way to garner public sympathy and political support for their agenda. I’ve investigated many of these cases and have found the FFLM’s claims about them to be very inaccurate. I detailed several of these, including the high-profile Genia Shockome and Sadia Loeliger cases, in a co-authored column here.

The most recent of the FFLM’s cause celebres cases is the Holly Collins case. Collins fled to Holland with her two children in 1993, claiming that her husband had abused the children and that she needed to flee to protect them. Last year I appeared on a Fox national TV show with Geraldo Rivera and Jennifer Collins, Holly’s 24-year-old daughter who supports her mother’s version of events. Jennifer Collins claims she’s a victim of her father’s false claims of Parental Alienation.

Yes, and it wasn’t one of your prouder moments, was it?  As you sat beside an “alienated father” with his supposedly alienated son who was smiling next to him (and one of the people brought up the fact he wasn’t paying child support then all hell broke loose).  You actually admitted to Dr. Silberg and Geraldo Rivera that some fathers probably do use so-called “parental alienation” as an excuse.  Then Jennifer spoke up, and the audience and moderators gasped when she told of her brother’s skull being broken by their custodial dad (who would violently beat their mother Holly).  After the show, you put out an All Points Bulletin to your cult to have people investigate Jennifer and Holly Collins, and even your supporters were sickened:

Lisa KS Says:

December 29th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Okay, this is it. Eww! I’m sorry, Glenn, but this is so gross, I can’t do this anymore. At all! You’ve printed many stories since I first started reading your blog about kids who talk about how their mother unfairly alienated them from their father, etc., and never once have you suggested that your readers investigate any of them to ascertain whether or not they were telling the “truth.” And yes, Jennifer Collins has every right to be offended–you’re running right over her by saying you have “no idea” what happened between her and her father, because she’s clearly willing to say what did, and she is twenty-three years old…not three, not thirteen–twenty-three…and you are acting as if she doesn’t exist–you pointedly did not contact her at all. You take the word of any other twenty-three-year-old…as long as that twenty-three-year-old is claiming that he or she was abused, abducted or kidnapped wrongly by his or her mother. And if the father is asking you to do this, you’ve been remarkably silent about that–it really appears that you personally just hate the existence of this story and are determined to crush it underfoot–putting up some diatribe from someone who is only willing to identify him or herself by initials who claims that during supervised visits, they got the real idea of what was going on..

What the hell makes you an investigative expert?   What are your qualifications and methodology?  You are effectively calling people liars publicly, I hope you are insured against defamation.

You whore our tax dollars by the way of grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the organization you are with, Fathers & Families, that collects millions to spew your propaganda and fund fathers in custody battles.  There is financial incentive for you and Ned Holstein to whine about “false allegations” and your need to fight them.  Why do you ignore the statistics?

PAS Presupposes a High Rate of False Accusations in Custody Cases

The theory of PAS is based in part on the notion that, within custody disputes, there is a high incidence of false abuse allegations. Dr. Gardner theorized that allegations arising within the context of a custody dispute have a “high likelihood of being false,”5 and went so far as to state that he believed “the vast majority of allegations in this category [divorce cases with custody disputes] are false.” 6 To the contrary, the available research suggests that false allegation rates are not significantly high. For example, a 1990 study by Thoennes and Tjaden evaluated 9,000 divorces in 12 states7 and found that sexual abuse allegations were made in less than 2 percent of the contested divorces involving child custody. Within this group, it appears false allegations occurred in approximately 5% to 8% of cases.8This study is one of the most comprehensive and least subject to bias and sampling problems, since its sample is so large and representative of the population of those divorcing with custodys.9

5 Gardner, 1991, p. 4.
6 See Kathleen Coulborn Faller, The Parental Alienation Syndrome: What is it and What Data Support it? Child Maltreatment, Vol. 3, No. 2, May 1998.
7 Thoennes & Tjaden, The Extent, Nature and Validity of Sexual Abuse Allegation in Custody/Visitation Disputes, Child Abuse and Neglect 1990, 14:151-163.
8 Id.
9 Kathleen Coulborn Faller, David L. Corwin & Erna Olafson, Literature Review: Research on False Allegations of Sexual Abuse in Divorce, APSAC Advisor 1993, 6(3), page 9.

But wait…Glenn comes to the rescue:  Stop Family Violence, to their credit, did get it right on Joyce Murphy–here’s their write-up.

In Murphy’s recent testimony to California legislators, she said the problem in her case was her ex-husband’s repeated claims of Parental Alienation. The real problem is that, in part because there are so many false accusations and unnecessarily contentious custody cases, courts don’t have the time to properly investigate charges of abuse. Often they simply default against the accused (usually the father). At other times, they suspect the mother’s allegations but don’t thoroughly investigate them, instead defaulting against her claims.

Lorna Alksne, the supervising judge of the San Diego County Family Court, told the reporter writing about the Murphy case that “each judge must juggle between 200 and 300 cases every month. She said the judges read before work, after work and during breaks to be prepared for their full day of hearings.”

What’s needed is a system which properly and impartially investigates claims, so that children like Murphy’s daughter are protected, but women like Shockome and Collins are unable to use false claims to drive their ex-husbands out of their children’s lives.

Organizations like Stop Family Violence could play a positive role here by actively counseling women not to make false claims–claims which can lead courts to suspect or not act on the accusations made by legitimately protective mothers like Joyce Murphy. And one way for Stop Family Violence to start would be to publicly disavow false accusers such as Collins, Loeliger, and Shockome.

So, what he is doing in this release here, is actually posing as moderate and balanced — because he conceded a mistake (AFTER the Joyce Murphy case was hit), but then goes after two other cases, and throws in the word “false allegations” over and over again.

Guess why there are so many cases in family law?  Not because of false allegations, but because batterers know WHERE to go to hide.   And the organizations that will support them.

Sorry Glenn, we just don’t buy it…