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Psychologist Dr. Robert M. Gordon has testified in many court cases about the form of child abuse known as parental alienation [2]. One of the things that frustrates him is that advocacy groups such as NOW (National Organization of Women) [3] dispute the existence of parental alienation and Parental Alienation Syndrome to the extent that it becomes difficult to talk in court about a very real phenomenon backed by research. Yet most of these articles disputing that PAS even exists don’t mention research. Many are full of anti-father diatribes, others of individual cases in which PAS was claimed by an abusive father and the alienation wasn’t really PAS but the children’s legitimate reaction to child abuse.