Time and again, the Family Courts and the Mental Health community enable and ensure that the effects of child abuse become cemented into a foundation of learned pathologies. Deferring to the "child's best interests" has become the rationale for totally counter intuitive, dangerous and almost ridiculous strategies that escalate conflict, cause incredible expense, torments the victims, rewards the abusers and results in an endless and avoidable catastrophe. 

Mental Health training in the USA today is by and large focused on trying to create balanced solutions spending fruitless hours of empathetic listening to support and respect the victim client's feelings where more often than not, an alliance forms between the therapist and the child's alienation driven delusional behaviors. Either by incompetence, blindness or willful ignorance, mental health practitioners watch the client session-by-session, week-by-week, slow, steady walk towards increasing enmeshment cheer leading the abused victim's embrace of increasing capitulation and encouraging the belief in the pathology as an adaptive adjustment. The victim's reluctance to behavioral change is not only maintained but also systematically strengthened. Meanwhile, the victim client and targeted parent are forced to dance to the never-ending tune of their own destruction.

After almost half a century of unproductive results, the strategies and procedures have become ingrained into Family Law to the point where there is now an expectation of failure that has been embraced as acceptable practice.

The casualties of this system that proposes time and again the same failed strategies and expecting different results are unimaginably horrible. It is time to implement a new system based upon science and common sense before the current system destroys another generation of children and their targeted parents. Learning Theory delivers consistent positive results rather than the current methods that nearly always result in catastrophic trauma, grief and pathologies.