Public talk: Domestic Violence, Custodial trials, and Parental alienation

Today, in Helsingfors, I conducted a lecture/talk on Domestic violence, how court personnel (judges) rule in custody disputes, and Parental Alienation. It included research about children early mental development, and provided an explanatory mother for the initiation of DV: mothers mental challenges (most likely Borderline Personality Disorder), social workers' hostility against fathers, and court personnel's discrimination against father relations. this together increases the probability of parental alienation by and memory hacking. Despite the fact that domestic violence is typically a female phenomenon, the current minister of law in Finland promotes false information about domestic violence. The talk is for sale to any organization who wants to learn more about these topics. 4 sidor. Visit my signature page Academic Competency.

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Today in Helsingfors, I conducted a lecture/talk on Domestic violence, how court personnel (judges) rule to discriminate against children's father relations in custody disputes, and Parental Alienation. Custodial conflicts are typically female, but the lecture also acknowledge that women also are alienated (outliers).

The lecture/talk is for sale if any organization want's to learn more about the topics.

The talk included research about human evolution, early childhood development, and how fragile episodic memory is.

Humans, Homo Sapiens Sapiens, are mammals. That means that we have a reptilian and mammal brain. But on top of that we have prefrontal cortex and something called prospection - the ability to imagine mental models and run them forward in time (Gilbert and Wilson, 2007; Kaku, 2014; Schacter and Addis, 2007). This is normal thinking.

Prospective thinking is based on perception and memory. Perception is stuff we experience in the present by our five senses.

Memory is either declarative or non-declarative.

Non-declarative memory control things like walking, running, dancing, and verbal communication.

Declarative memory is semantic, episodic, or personal semantic.

Semantic memories includes things like numeracy - 2+2=4, and information about geography: Stockholm is the capital of Sweden. Semantic memory is stable over time.

Episodic memory, on the other hand, is very unstable:

“Since the future is not an exact repetition of the past, simulation of future episodes requires a system that can draw on the past in a manner that flexibly extracts and recombines elements of previous experiences” (Schacter and Addis, 2007).

This means that episodic memory is vulnerable for social influences - memory hacking (Shaw, 2016).

Cognitive capacity develops at a rapid pace during the first five years of living. Food play an important role as ~60% of the energy consumed goes to the brain (among adults, 20 % of the energy goes to the brain).

But also parental style (Baumrind, 1996) and the communication in the home environment has an impact; kids who experience academic oriented communication in the home can gain up to 30 million word perceptions compared to kids who experience conflicting communication. This is manifested in school performance at 10 years of age (Hart and Risley, 1995).

Between five to twelve years of age cognitive development slow down in favor of social development; this is the time when the child is practicing to interact with other people for the purpose of establishing social networks.

All together, this can be described as emotional and social adjustment and cognitive development. Children who live with both parent or their fathers, have better emotional and social adjustment, and cognitive development compared to children who live with their mothers (Macrae, 2021; Moffitt ett al. 2001; Österberg, 2004).

Physical violence in intimate relationships is evenly distributed between the sexes; women account for slightly more than half of incidence and injuries (Archer, 2000, 2004; Bergkvist, 2002; Bates,2016, 2018; Bates et al. 2014; Bates et al. 2019; Straus, 1979; Thornton et al. 2012).

Lethal domestiv violence will equally unlikely (0.000005) affect children, men and women.

Psychological violence, relational aggression, is typically female.

Overall, the typical perpetrator of intimate partner violence is a woman (Archer,2000, 2004; Bergkvist, 2002; Bates, Graham-Kevan och Archer , 2014; Bates och Graham-Kevan, 2016; Bates, 2018; Bates, Kaye, Pennington och Hamlin, 2019; Crick och Grotpeter, 1995; Thornton et al. 2012).

The likely explanation is Borderline Personality Disorder (Österberg, 2023).

Statistics from Swedish and American courts show that staff (judges) discriminate against children's father relationships in 75% of cases (Elfver-Lindström, 1999; Schiratzki, 2008; Biringer and Harman, 2018).

It increases the risk of parental alienation (Bernet, 2008, 2021; Kruk, 2015; Warshak, 2014, 2015), which occur when a parents, typically a mother, lie to the child about the other parent (typically a father). This process of manipulating the child's mind is referred to as memory hacking (Braun et al. 2002; Shaw, 2016; Spanos et al. 1999; Strange et al. 2006).

The post-marxist feminist movement reject the science on Domestic violence. Instead they use an invalidated concept called men's violence against women. Their rationale for that is partly the work of sociologist Dr. Eva Lundgren and gynecologist Gun Heimer, both promoted to professor at Uppsala University, as well as an organization called ROKS. They published a book that didn't meet demands for validity and reliability (Lundgren et al. 2001). In 2005, Uppsala university banned Dr Lundgren from teaching, a unique decision.

Despite the facts that the typical perpetrator of domestic violence is a women, and that children are better of living with their fathers, social workers in Finland and Swedish apply Lundgren's, Heimer's, and ROKS invalidated approach, instigating domestic conflicts against fathers.

Lundgren's, Heimer's, and ROKS invalidated claims was used by staff working at governments; Berit Jernberg employed by Sweden's Equality Authority (Jämställdhetsmyndigheten) claimed:

When a woman hits a man, it should be classified as men's violence against women

When the conflict instigated by the social worker's reach a court personnel (judges) apply something called the presumption of motherhood (mater semper certa est). The implication is that they (judges) discriminate against children's important father relations in at least 75 % of the cases.

During 2022, a mother, obviously with severe mental issues, had isolated herself with the kids (n=2). This was probably supported by social workers who refused to separate the children from their mother. The mother killed the children and herself by standing in front of the train.

Link to source.

A few months earlier, a similar case occurred in Finland. Finnish social workers ignored a mother's severe mental issues. Instead of seperating the child from the mother, they arranged for them to live togehter in a so called shelter. The mother killed her own child and then herself. Finnish police claim they could fin any evidence point at the social workers!?

For some reason, the link to the article doesn't work anymore.

There was a follow up article:

Link to source.

In that perspective, is it strange that Finland's Minister of Justice Anna-Maja Henriksson (SFP) spreads misinformation about Violence in intimate relationships?

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