Just wow! Reading through a book on #BettyBroderick and am just astonished at the various experts involved.
In 1987, Betty Betty was court-ordered to visit marriage and family therapist Dr. Ruth Roth.
Ruth Roth has been mediating divorce and custody disputes for the San Diego courts since 1976, first in the county conciliation courts then in private practice.
She is a familiar, well-regarded "expert" in the San Diego family courts. What she says usually goes.”
Roth said at the first session, Betty threatened to kill Dan.
Roth promptly called Dan Broderick, to warn him that "I have every reason to believe you may be in danger, that Elisabeth wants to do great bodily harm to you."
In California, this extraordinary breach of doctor-patient confidentiality is called a Tarasoff warning. It is not only ethically permissible but also legally advisable in instances where the doctor might later be held liable for a preventable crime.
The warning is named after the victim of a psychotic killer whose therapist was later successfully sued for negligence in failing to alert the victim or her family to the potential danger.
Before Betty knew that Ruth Roth was confiding in Dan Broderick, she returned for a second session—and repeated the same threat almost verbatim, according to Roth. "I'm not going to be the single parent of four children. He'll die first ...”
Roth issued her second Tarasoff warning to Dan that week. But, Dan didn't seem to take it seriously. "He just shined it on," said Roth—who was, by now, having regular telephone conversations with Dan, discussing ways to best handle Betty and protect the children from her.”
This is just astonishing.
And there’s more...
On her third meeting with Roth, Betty quit. "She said, 'I'm not coming back, because you're too good,'" Roth testified. "She said, 'You make me forget how much I hate him'."”
“I said that because....I was trying to be nice, I didn't have the guts to just tell her the truth”
“ and the truth was I couldn't stand her. She was pushy and arrogant, and she spent forty of her fifty-minute periods talking about herself, telling me how wonderful she was."”
— Until the Twelfth of Never: Should Betty Broderick ever be free? by Bella Stumbo amzn.eu/iLe8cL4
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First and foremost, a climate where bullies are rewarded.
When they’re not held to account but rewarded with getting their own way because others are too scared to confront them, that is the perfect Petri dish for #coercivecontrol
Different rules for different people.
Making allowances for, or ignoring bullying/inappropriate/abusive behaviours of people we like or admire.
Holding them to a lower standard because they’re family, or a celebrity, or wealthy, or we benefit in some way from looking away.
I detest the term *parental alienation* with a passion and now I won’t use it.
It used to be called ‘Threat Therapy’.
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I’ve been told, frequently, that not all perpetrators are men, that mums get *alienated* too and that denying the existence of PA means denying that abusers DO and WILL maliciously sever a relationship between parent and child.
And yes, all of the above IS true.
But refusing to use that term is NOT the same as denying that this happens.
So, for avoidance of doubt, here is why I believe the term *parental alienation* should not be used:
Adolf Eichmann was aided by a Franciscan monk who helped him obtain an Argentine visa and who signed an application for a falsified Red Cross passport.
Eichmann masterminded the Nazi network of death camps that resulted in the murder of approximately 6 million Jews.
Josef Mengele fled to Argentina with the help of a Catholic clergy member.
Nicknamed the “Angel of Death” he conducted experiments at Auschwitz particularly on twins, pregnant women and the disabled. Mengele even tortured and killed children with his medical experiments.
“On one occasion, she said, male officers taped her phone to the ceiling, telling her: “We’re gonna watch your arse when you climb on the table.””
How a dead officer’s iPhone exposes misogyny, corruption and racism in a police force
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Ricky Jones, a retired police officer knew where many of Gwent police’s skeletons were buried, but it wasn’t until his death that his own began to emerge.
In 2020, he jumped to his death from a bridge.
He left behind his wife and three daughters.
To the outside world Jones was a respected former copper and family man. But behind closed doors he subjected his family to decades of #domesticabuse.