Det finns människor som hävdar att Richard Gardner, skaparen av ”teorin” om ”Parental Alienation” (som den svenska papparättsrörelsen vill införa som barnpsykiatrisk diagnos och bedömningsunderlag i vårdnadsutredningar och vårdnadstvister), inte alls försvarade pedofili och incest.
Mer citat från Richard Gardner behövs tydligen för att belägga vad Peter Jamison skriver om vad användningen av ”teorin” om Parental Alienation som beslutsunderlag i vårdnadstvister lett till, i SF Weekly, ”Illegal Guardians – California Family Courts Helping Pedophiles, Batterers Get Child Custody” [2011-03-02].
Därför publiceras här ett antal citat från Richard Gardners skrifter:
Pedophilia ”is a widespread and accepted practice among literally billions of people.”
Gardner, R.A. (1986). Child Custody Litigation: A Guide for Parents and Mental Health Professionals . Cresskill, NJ: Creative Therapeutics, (p. 93)
”Pedophilia has been considered the norm by the vast majority of individuals in the history of the world.”
Gardner, R.A. (1992). True and False Accusations of Child Sex Abuse . Cresskill, NJ: Creative Therapeutics. (p. 592-3)
”It is because our society overreacts to it [pedophilia] that children suffer.”
Gardner, R.A. (1992). True and False Accusations of Child Sex Abuse . Cresskill, NJ: Creative Therapeutics. (pp. 594-5)
Children are naturally sexual and may initiate sexual encounters by ”seducing” the adult .
Gardner, R.A. (1986). Child Custody Litigation: A Guide for Parents and Mental Health Professionals. Cresskill, NJ: Creative Therapeutics (p. 93)
If the sexual relationship is discovered, ” the child is likely to fabricate so that the adult will be blamed for the initiation .”
Gardner, R.A. (1986). Child Custody Litigation: A Guide for Parents and Mental Health Professionals. Cresskill, NJ: Creative Therapeutics (p. 93).
Sex abuse is not necessarily traumatic; the determinant as to whether sexual molestation will be traumatic to the child, is the social attitude toward these encounters.
Gardner, R.A. (1992). True and False Accusations of Child Sex Abuse . Cresskill, NJ: Creative Therapeutics. (pp. 670-71)
Gardner om terapi med barn som utsätts för sexuella övergrepp av sin far:
”In such discussions the child has to be helped to appreciate that we have in our society an exaggeratedly punitive and moralistic attitude about adult-child sexual encounters”
Gardner, R.A. (1992). True and False Accusations of Child Sex Abuse . Cresskill, NJ: Creative Therapeutics.(p. 572).
[Översättning till svenska: ”I sådana samtal måste barnet få hjälp att förstå, att vi i vårt samhälle har en överdrivet fördömande och moraliserande attityd beträffande sexuella möten mellan vuxna och barn”]
The child should be told that there is no such thing as a perfect parent. ”The sexual exploitation has to be put on the negative list, but positives as well must be appreciated”
Gardner, R.A. (1992). True and False Accusations of Child Sex Abuse . Cresskill, NJ: Creative Therapeutics.(p. 572)
Gardner om mödrar som upptäcker att fadern begått sexuella övergrepp på deras gemensamma barn:
”Perhaps she can be helped to appreciate that in the history of the world his behavior has probably been more common than the restrained behavior of those who do not sexually abuse their children.”
Gardner, R.A. (1992). True and False Accusations of Child Sex Abuse . Cresskill, NJ: Creative Therapeutics. (pp. 585)
”Her increased sexuality may lessen the need for her husband to return to their daughter for sexual gratification.”
Gardner, R.A. (1992). True and False Accusations of Child Sex Abuse. Cresskill, NJ: Creative Therapeutics. (p. 585)
Gardner fråntar med andra ord förövaren ansvaret för de sexuella övergreppen och skyller på modern och barnet.
Gardner om terapi med förövaren:
Therapy with the father should not be spent focusing on the primary problem (I.e., sexual molestation). Instead, therapy should be spent ”talking about other things” as the goal of therapy is ”to help people forget about their problems”
Gardner, R.A. (1992). True and False Accusations of Child Sex Abuse . Cresskill, NJ: Creative Therapeutics. (pp. 585-592)
”He has to be helped to appreciate that, even today, it [pedophilia] is a widespread and accepted practice among literally billions of people. He has to appreciate that in our Western society especially, we take a very punitive and moralistic attitude toward such inclinations. He has had a certain amount of back (sic) luck with regard to the place and time he was born with regard to social attitudes toward pedophilia.”
Gardner, R.A. (1992). True and False Accusations of Child Sex Abuse . Cresskill, NJ: Creative Therapeutics. (p. 593)
He has had bad luck with regard to the place and time he was born with regard to social attitudes toward pedophilia. However, these are not reasons to condemn himself.
Gardner, R.A. (1991). Sex Abuse Hysteria: Salem Witch Trials Revisited . Cresskill, NJ: Creative Therapeutics. (p. 119)
Åtgärder som Gardner föreslår för att komma till rätta med ‘problemet’:
- Abolish mandated reporting of child sexual abuse.
- Do away with immunity for reporters of child abuse.
- Create federally-funded programs to assist those claiming to have been falsely accused of child sexual abuse.
[Översättning till svenska:
- Avskaffa anmälningsplikt när det gäller sexuella övergrepp mot barn
- Avskaffa anonymitet för anmälare av barnmisshandel
- Skapa statligt finansierade program som hjälper de som hävdar att de blivit falskt anklagade för sexuella övergrepp mot barn]
Gardner, R.A. (1995). Written testimony on HR3588 – Proposed revision of the child abuse prevention and treatment act (CAPTA) (Public Law 93-247).
Enligt Gardner så är ju alla som anklagas för sexuella övergrepp mot barn ”falskt anklagade” eftersom pedofili och incest enligt hans synsätt inte är något ”övergrepp” utan endast ett naturligt beteende som inte ska straffas.