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Useful links

If your organisation is sympathetic to MATCH's aims, and you would like a link on this page, please contact: enquiries@matchmothers.org

Family Support and Campaign Groups

International Family Support and Campaign Groups

Abandoned Children

Many MATCH Members have been erroneously charged with having “abandoned” their children. These UK-based sites link to children who, tragically, have been abandoned. The children, many with disabilities, are supported by these small charities, but some still live in conditions of extreme poverty. Without help, their lives would be lived out in young offender centres, psychiatric institutions or as street children.

Abducted Children

Adopted Children

Alienated Children

Parental Alienation

Wikipedia definition of Parental alienation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_alienation:
“Any behavior by a parent, a child’s mother or father, whether conscious or unconscious, that could create alienation in the relationship between a child and the other parent”.

It describes the alienating parent's or parents' conduct which induces parental alienation syndrome in children.” Wikipedia’s site gives examples of where PA is mentioned in law, e.g. “Lady Justice Hale (in Re K (Contact: Psychiatric Report) [1995] 2 FLR 432) stated:

‘It is my unhappy experience, borne out by other anecdotal evidence and confirmed by the Official Solicitor’s department that there seems to be an increasing number of cases coming before the family courts where contact between a young child and the absent parent has become bedevilled by stubborn opposition to contact being shown by the child which may, or may not, be evidence of some implacable hostility on the part of the other parent for good reason or for no reason at all.’“

Parental Alienation Syndrome

Definition of Parental Alienation Syndrome as coined by Dr. Richard Gardner in 1987: "A disturbance in which children are preoccupied with deprecation and criticism of a parent, denigration that is unjustified and/or exaggerated." Its symptoms describe the child's behaviours and attitude towards the targeted parent after the child has been effectively programmed and severely alienated from the targeted parent.”

As there is a great deal of information and controversy about Parental Alienation and Parental Alienation Syndrome, we suggest you type first one then the other into your search engine and research the two separately.

See these PAS-related links:

http://www.videojug.com/interview/parental-alienation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2002_41_mon_02.shtml

Falsely Accused

Fostered Children



Abusive Relationships


Support for mothers suffering long-term physical or mental ill-health problems


Government Departments & Political Parties

Three new departments were set up by the Prime Minister on 28 June 2007, replacing the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) is

“responsible for improving the focus on all aspects of policy affecting children and young people...”

The Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families The Rt Hon Ed Balls MP for Normanton

See the full ministerial and civil servants team on www.dfes.gov.uk and www.edballs.com Shadow Government Departments

The Conservative Party

Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools & Families: Michael Gove MP for Surrey Heath

Email: govem@parliament.uk
Website: www.michaelgove.com

Liberal Democrats

Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools & Families: David Laws, MP for Yeovil

Email: enquiries@yeovil-libdems.org.uk
Website: www.yeovil-libdems.org.uk/david.asp

Find your Member of Parliament

www.parliament.uk/commons/index.cfm

UK Newspapers

e-mail addresses for major newspapers:

letters@guardian.co.uk
letters@sunday-times.co.uk
letters@independent.co.uk
dtletters@telegraph.co.uk
letters@thetimes.co.uk

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Publications

Lost Children - A guide for seperating parents Lost Children: A guide for Separating Parents

Lost Children: A Guide for Separating Parents, Penny Cross.
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