It is often said that parental alienation is not a gender issue, by this people mean that the issue can affect either mothers or fathers. At first glance however, it would appear that alienated mothers are in the minority, but in reality they are not so small a group.  What faces alienated mothers however is something so deeply unpleasant and so deeply shaming, that it is small wonder that so many women in these circumstances do not reveal to the outside world what has happened to them.  Not only do alienated mothers face the loss of their children and all of the grief and suffering that goes with that, they face the hostile and deeply suspicious attitudes of society at large, where the belief that if a mother has lost her children, she must have done something dreadful to deserve it, is an obstinate and poisonous mindset.

This mindset is…

Two children’s rights campaigners have set up a protest camp outside the Goffs Oak home of Charles Walker MP.

Bobby Smith of London and Hertfordshire Parents Protesting and New Fathers 4 Justice activist Carol Wheeler who recently spent four days on Hyde Park Gate arch have pitched a tent and put up banners.

Charles Walker has been  the  Conservative Party  Member of Parliament for Broxbourne since 2005.

Bobby  Smith who confronted  Mr Walker earlier in the day said  “Charles Walker has failed to help me and my girls after nearly two years of me sending him letters. Here he is basically telling me it’s not his problem, and I should get a lawyer.”

“Typical tory trying to get me to spend thousands on a lawyer and get tied up for another 4 years in Family court hearings. Anything as long he doesn’t have to deal with it.”