Hollywood actor wants to help men survive their failed marriages
Saturday, 23 August 2008
Alec Baldwin has written a practical guide to divorce for men.
The actor has put his bitter court battle with actress Kim Basinger behind him by writing A Promise To Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood And Divorce.
But he hopes not to reignite his war of words with his ex-wife, who he once described as 'dark and manipulative' and 'a thoughtless pain in the ass'.
‘I took care to be very kind and measured in dealing with her,' he says.
'It is not a personal memoir, and I have no desire to settle some score with her through this. In fact, I was originally reluctant to write this book for that very reason.’
The Baldwins married in 1993 and separated 7 years later. During the mudslinging over custody of daughter Ireland, now 13, Kim, 55 called Alec, 50, a 'tinpot tyrant and bully'.
‘I didn’t want to be perceived as stirring the pot or calling attention to any of that again,' he tells Weekend. 'However, I do find the situation disgraceful and I wanted to say so.’
A Promise To Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood And Divorce is published on 23 September.
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Perhaps the greatest shame of all is that people who read this book will not see and probable will never know the other side of the story: that there are literally thousands of women in America losing custody of their children because gender bias in the courts has swung in favor of "fathers" and against mothers. These mothers are losing children to sexual predators, to batterers, to men who neglect the children they stole from mothers the children want to be with, to mothers who love those children and would have provided well for them. It is not a one-case issue that can be settled by a gender-biased book from Alec Baldwin or any other person banging a drum for Fathers Rights.
An abuser should be permanently banned from the lives of the women he dominates and controls. He is obsessive and abusive, these are the reasons that the people he abuses don't want to be around him. Claims of alienation are a twisted effort on placing blame on someone other than himself. The theopry of alienation was made up by Richard Gardner, it is not a medical syndrome, and is not in the DSM, it does not meet any scientific standards for evidence and is absolute junk science.
You got that right!!!
Shame on Mr. Baldwin for continuing on his journey of contempt for women. We still remember your voice mail to your daughter calling her a "thoughtless little pig". Is that something a "good" father does?
I will scream from the top of every mountain...PAS is JUNK SCIENCE! The most notorious junk science theory used in custody cases is Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS). Child psychologist Richard Gardner coined PAS in 1985 to describe what he believed to be a high number of false allegations in his personal caseload. According to Gardner's theory, "the child viciously vilifies one of the parents and idealizes the other" and in 80 to 90 percent of the cases the father is the vilified one. Alec Baldwin stands for every father that has used every means to discredit his ex wife. This should be interesting on his "how to's" in his divorce guide for men. Perhaps lesson #1 is calling your daughter a "thoughtless little pig".
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