False Allegations Leads To a Bitter Divorce

Of late, the world seems to be growing intensely selfish. People are willing to use whatever contrivances they may have at hand, to destroy their objects of hate. At times, they are willing to stoop as low as using their loved ones as pawns to play hate games with their enemies. This distressing trend has been validated by the mutual blame game that separated couples play, in order to vent their anger and hate against each other. While this can still be swallowed (though with difficulty), what is worse is this entire trend of false allegations that has crept into the already messy proceedings that usually accompany a divorce.

Mothers and fathers do not hesitate to make their children the centerpieces of such dirty mind games that they play against each other. To get what things that they want, like custody for example, mothers fling false allegations of child sexual abuse at the fathers. To counter it, men often come up with allegations of infidelity and the like. The worst thing about false allegations is, it is very difficult to prove them either wrong or right. The process of authenticating such claims often takes months and often years of legal procedure.

There are certain developments in judicial history that led to these eventualities. False allegations were encouraged after the passing of the Mondale Act of 1974 or the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA). This Act was designed with the intention of investigation and subsequent validation of child abuse claims. People looking for revenge were eager to use this as a tool to hurl false allegations at each other. Now, this does not mean to imply, that, during divorce proceedings all claims made a re deliberately untrue.

Instead, it is definitely true though a lot of these accusations do hold ground; a lot of them are made for the sake of it. Unfortunately, the fathers have to bear the bigger brunt in these cases. Using the maternal complex to win over juries, mothers have often made false allegations against the fathers, concerning alcoholism, sexual and physical abuse and so on. Under therefore mentioned Act, CPS workers are entrusted with the task of evaluating and proving such claims, and often professional pressure and fear of erroneous consequences have led them to pass biased decisions.

Under the occurrence of false allegations being used as a favorite weapon in divorce cases, two symptoms have been identified. One is the Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) where one parent seeks to alienate the child from the other targeted parent. The second form of false allegations is more serious with far worse consequences. It is called Sexual Allegations in Divorce or SAID. Here, one parent accuses the other of sexually molesting a child. Sexual molestation is regarded as an unforgivable offence in society and thus, the accused, especially the fathers have to face the brunt of widespread social outrage. Sadly, it is the children who have to become the long term victims in such mutual mudslinging and grow up to be traumatized individuals.

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