Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Spurious George, AKA Christopher Emley

Yes, "Spurious George" is our affectionate nickname for Emley, but it is war zone humor born from horror. Words of dark wisdom from Chris Emley: http://www.post-gazette.com/custody/partthree.asp:

And in a report filed in the Grieco case, Gardner noted that "PAS mothers have a way of finding therapists, almost invariably women, who reflexively join them in their campaign of denigration of the father ... (and) in some cases even join the mother's paranoid delusional system."

Although the mothers in these situations may have a variety of motivations for programming their children against their fathers, the most common one relates to the old saying: 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,"' says Gardner in a 1987 book, "The Parental Alienation Syndrome and The Differentiation Between Fabricated and Genuine Sex Abuse."

"I think Gardner's science is spurious; nonetheless, it is useful," said Christopher Emley, a San Francisco lawyer and president of the California Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.

"I don't think there's a whole lot of harm in defense attorneys saying (the mother) is a parent alienator and she fits the items on the (Gardner) profile (of symptoms)."


Yup, in Christopher Emley's own words, he doesn't see "a whole lot of harm" using this spurious argument.

The article in which he makes this statement is about this spurious tactic resulting in the suicide of a child. Cheeky monkey.

For those of you playing along at home, "spurious" means: not genuine, not authentic, not true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit, false.

And most appropriately,"spurious" is Latin for "Bastard". A perfect, if ironic, choice of words by Emley.


Even more disturbing, he says he finds this spurious argument "useful". Scary stuff.

The real horror is that this type of strategy negatively effects children, as their family life is being altered by false claims, claims he admits he knows are "spurious" or false. Frankly, I think Mr. Emley should be locked up for this.

If these statements from Christopher Emley's own mouth are not enough for disbarment, hopefully his work on my case will be.

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