RTL News
When Right to Love and professionals say there is pathology in family courts, the pathology in question is attachment pathology. Such pathology often leads to unhealthy narcissism, severely maladaptive attachment styles and personality disorders.
Parents and professionals in family courts will have varying degrees of narcissism, some will have too much and others will have too little.
This month we have focused on the problem of those who have too much narcissism in a series of articles on Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). We recommend reading the articles from the bottom of the list up.
Wider News
Press
Time to answer the Andrew Tate question – The Times
Child Attachment Expert: We’re Stressing Newborns & It’s Causing ADHD! Hidden Dangers Of Daycare!
Boys And The Burden Of Labels: An Examination of Masculinity Teaching in Schools | Website
2025 Family Court Fee Rises – Stowe Family Law
Ban on unregulated experts in family courts proposed for England and Wales | Children | The Guardian
Courts failing children of divorcees, says lawyer
56% of children in separated families regularly see parent they do not live with | The Independent
Case Law & Judiciary
C (A Child), Re [2025] EWFC 47 (B) (04 March 2025)
E (Children: Costs) [2025] EWCA Civ 183 (27 February 2025)
Research
Child contact problems and family court issues are related to chronic mental health problems for men following family breakdown – UCL Discovery
Events
Past
Dr Craig Childress Sunday Coffee Sessions:
- Diagnostic Assessment
- Speaking with Family Therapists and GAL’s
- Should I Educate the Child on the Pathology?
- Speaking with Teachers & Principals
- Speaking Directly to the Court
Upcoming
If you have any information about upcoming events which are related to child/partner psychological abuse, contact us at info@righttolove.uk.
Professional Spotlight – Ed Tronick
Professor Edward Tronick is a developmental and clinical psychologist that works at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, USA.
In 1975 he presented research on the “still face experiment” to show how hard children work to re-engage a parent who all of a sudden stops reacting to them by using protest behaviours designed to get the parent to once again engage with the child and meet their needs.
His work uncovered that 70% of all normal parent/child interactions are out of sync and that it is in fact the repair of relationships after a breakdown has occurred that causes immense joy and leads to better relationships and trust.
Right to Love – Key Links
RTL raises awareness of child/partner psychological abuse in the context of parental separation. Our leaflet provides a brief overview of this issue for busy professionals and families.
Some refer to “parental alienation” but we have outlined Why Right to Love Doesn’t Use the Term as we believe it is unnecessarily leading to difficulties securing mental health solutions. Instead we support the diagnostic model used by Dr Craig Childress to identify cases of child psychological abuse.
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