Serpent Child

In a video introduced by Anthony Douglas, former CEO of CAFCASS, Pat reads an extract from Serpent Child, a book he considers a very significant contribution to our knowledge of survivor experience and one that should have an international reach. Parental alienation – the systematic brainwashing of a child by one parent to get it to reject the other parent – is nowadays recognised worldwide as emotional abuse. It is a factor in thousands of UK cases dealt with every year by CAFCASS, the Children and Families Court Advisory and Support Service.