FALSE ALLEGATIONS

Strategies and Solutions:

  • Participate in the International Falsely Accused Day, observed each year on September 9.
  • Video:  Odette von Rensburg: False Accusations don’t always get Reported to Authorities
  • Policies:
    • Require that domestic violence training programs be factual, balanced, and evidence-based.
    • Limit definitions of domestic violence to physical “violence.”
    • Require that accusers provide objective evidence (visible injury, medical record, police report, cell phone recording) of violence or harm before they can qualify for services and benefits.
    • Respect defendants’ constitutionally-protected due process rights.
    • Assure that the accused are provided with legal assistance to assure equal treatment under the law.
    • Educate prosecutors about the prevalence of false accusations and the need to exercise prosecutorial discretion. Remove no-drop prosecution policies.
    • Require prosecution of persons who file false statements and engage in perjury.
    • Increase penalties for false allegations. Examples from the United States:

PARENTAL ALIENATION

“It wasn’t my parents’ divorce that damaged me. It was the severe child psychological abuse my mom put me through thereafter that damaged me long-term and caused the most pain in my life.” — Madie

  • Research: “It is no longer tenable to dismiss the field as lacking in scientific status. Only by recognizing the legitimacy of PA scholarship will developmental psychology sustain and enhance understanding of how and why parent–child relationships break down in the wake of interparental conflict, separation, and divorce.”
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