Mother Frida case, the Court of Venice never listened to the little girl. Differenza Donna’s complaint
The daughter is now forced into daytime placement outside the family and forced to have meetings with her father who recognized her belatedly
ROME – “The Court of Venice issued a measure limiting the maternal parenting on the basis of the unscientific construct of parental alienation“, which has “serious consequences” for the girl, as for all children. “The provision was issued without listening to the child either directly, as required by law, or through auxiliaries or by appointing social services, or by proceeding with the special curator, and orders the daytime placement of the child outside the family, also making use of of the public force”. This is the complaint raised by the Difenza Donna association on the case of mother Frida and her daughter, now forced into daytime placement outside the family and forced to have meetings with her father. The Commission of Inquiry into Femicide, upon input from Senator Valeria Valente, head of the coordination of the working group on institutional violence, announced that it wanted to see all the documents in question precisely with regard to the correct application of the provisions of the Cartabia Reform.< /p>
“The Differenza Donna Association – remembering the entire battle against parental alienation – since the first entry into the courtrooms of the ascientific constructs attributable to the ideological framework of the so-called parental alienation (but also parental alienation, parental alienation syndrome, etc. .), reported the serious compressions of fundamental rights and freedoms that this unscientific framework produces. The CEDAW committee continues to express concern about the increase in measures limiting the parental responsibility of women, which they have denounced violence in intimate relationships, based on consultants’ assessments that contain references to PAS”.
(DIRE) Rome, 9 May. – “The Report of the Council of Europe group of experts on the fight against domestic violence and any other form of gender violence against women (GREVIO) in 2020 – recalls the association – underlined the inadequacy of the judicial response in matter of custody of sons and daughters who are victims of witnessed violence. The Court of Cassation, with order of 17 May 2021 and then with order of 24 March 2022, clarified that the provisions adopted by uncritically transposing criticisms of maternal parenting that are generically motivated on the basis of the so-called ‘malevolent mother’ syndrome, restore ‘author’s guilt’, dating back to legal doctrines expunged from our system as they are unconstitutional, with serious consequences on the psychophysical development of children and of minor daughters who suffer, as an immediate and direct consequence, the severing of the maternal bond. It has also been clarified – the association recalls – that the use of public force against minors is to be considered outside the rule of law”.
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“As part of the reform of civil justice – Differenza Donna continues – the Senate has approved important regulatory changes which exclude the legitimacy of the entry into courtrooms of unscientific constructs and the indiscriminate use of psycho-forensic consultancy >. The European Parliament with the European Parliament Resolution of 6 October 2021 on the impact of intimate partner violence and custody rights on women and children (2019/2166(INI)) underlines that the so-called ‘parental alienation syndrome ‘ and similar concepts and terms, which are usually based on gender stereotypes, operate to the detriment of women who are victims of domestic violence, blaming mothers for having alienated their children from their fathers, questioning the parental skills of victims, ignoring the testimony of children and the risks of violence to which children are exposed and undermining the rights and safety of mothers and children; accordingly urges Member States not to recognize parental alienation syndrome in their judicial practice and law and to discourage or even prohibit it use in judicial proceedings, in particular during investigations to ascertain the existence of violence”.
The association continues: “The United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women filed a report in April 2023 on the use of pas and all its derivatives in proceedings relating to parental responsibilities, reporting the increase in measures limiting maternal parenting on the basis of this construct with serious consequences for sons and daughters. The implementation of these measures, therefore – continues the association – still looms over the lives of even very young boys and girls. to the other they see themselves torn away from the affection of their protective mother in ways that find no legitimation in the legal system and which actually violate their fundamental rights and freedoms”.
The Differenza Donna Association believes “it cannot be postponed a clear and unambiguous action that protects children, girls and their mothers from the serious violations underway against them by ensuring the adoption of all measures within their respective competences, including the adoption of a decree It is urgent that he declares the ineffectiveness of the measures justified on the basis of parental alienation, in all its forms”.