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The End, A Child Lost
How parental alienation destroyed a father & son relationship at the hands or Sarah King & Margaret and my final letter into the family courts.
Sonny's Dad
Nov 149 min read
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A Final Hearing?
As we head towards a final hearing, CAFCASS fail Sonny, along with every other professional instructed in the court proceedings
Sonny's Dad
Oct 145 min read
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Happy Birthday Sonny
Wishing my little lad, although he's now 21, a Happy Birthday x
Sonny's Dad
Sep 241 min read
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Who needs Doctor’s
How Drs. played their part in a parental alienation court hearing. They do their work & take their money but they add little value for child
Sonny's Dad
Mar 276 min read
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Cafcass, time slipping by
Here details an initial attempt by CAFCASS to resolve parental alienation. Their intentions were good initial but they ultimately failed.
Sonny's Dad
Dec 20, 20248 min read
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Parental Alienation
Parental Alienation in my words, how I see if effect people and my obvious hope that Sonny never experiences it.
Sonny's Dad
Dec 13, 20244 min read
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Mediation
How we attended mediation with a view to resolving the parental alienation of Sonny without the involvement of the family courts or CAFCASS.
Sonny's Dad
Dec 12, 20246 min read
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Our First Contact Session
The day had arrived, the 4th of March 2006 - after such a long time of not being allowed to see Sonny I was now only a matter of hours...
Sonny's Dad
Jan 11, 20245 min read
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Happy Birthday Sonny
19 years ago today I sat in the waiting room while your Mum gave birth to you. It's a day I'll never forget Sonny x We hope you have a...
Sonny's Dad
Sep 24, 20231 min read
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The Family Courts
So, the day had finally arrived – Me and Sarah were going to battle it out at great financial and emotional cost in a court room adjudicated by people that didn’t know us or Sonny. What a complete mess it had eroded too. None of this was my choice - In the blue corner the Dad, wanting to see to his son. Wanting his son to have a Dad. Wanting his son to have and Auntie, a Nana a Granddad. And in the red corner, Sarah, Margaret and Ken wanting the opposite. Didn’t want Sonny to
Sonny's Dad
Aug 29, 20234 min read
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Slowly Starting To Make Progress
After my initial attempts to get the legal process moving had come to a shuddering halt I was in a really difficult position. In all...
Sonny's Dad
Aug 15, 20232 min read
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Family Court, The Beginnings
So, whilst I knew from the outset of Sarah becoming pregnant with Sonny would see me in court chasing Sarah for a court order, the reality of it came a bit sooner than I thought it would have done. Sonny was born in Autumn of 2004 and by early 2005 it was game over. As far as Sarah was concerned Sonny was hers and I’d tried everything to keep her on side but solicitors and courts ts was destined to be, I made arrangements to see a solicitor in Manchester, to get everything m
Sonny's Dad
Jul 24, 20233 min read
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Manchester City Treble Winners
When Sarah and Margaret decided to use Sonny as a pawn there main target was me. What was important for them was that I ever got to see Sonny. As a consequence of that came many other consequences, Parental Alienation is like a virus that spreads, it gets everywhere and has a day to day impact on both the child and the alienated families. The really tragic side of parental alienation is the child doesn't even know they've been subjected to alienation as they've been groomed t
Sonny's Dad
Jun 13, 20234 min read
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The Rules
So, as above – who wants to follow rules when it comes to being able to see your son or Grandson. Most people will struggle with it but we have to grit our teeth and get on with it. This is what we had to do. Sarah made it clear to us our relationship with Sonny was going to be strictly controlled from the beginning. Obviously this is not a natural environment to have a positive and loving relationship with a child but this is what we had to accept. When these rules were appl
Sonny's Dad
Jun 9, 20234 min read
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The No Look Pass
When Sarah became pregnant, and then what began to unfold over the next few months, was a difficult time. My family was under immense pressure from Margaret to force me to stay in a relationship with Sarah with constant calls telling them what they should forcing me to do. Obviously this was never going to work, Margaret got it wrong and completely misunderstood the type of family we are but that being said, she did cause more problems. My parents really tried to resolve thin
Sonny's Dad
May 6, 20235 min read
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Just Imagine - Parental Alienation
So, I often wonder about the reality of the situation Sarah and Margaret harvested. The manipulation of a child, the leverage of lazy incompetent family courts, the upset, the trauma - parental alienation. Have they ever imagined...... This post dates back to the early 70's and involves my uncle. At the time he was married to his then wife and everything was normal, relationship was fine and they were expecting their first child together. They had a little baby girl (my cousi
Sonny's Dad
Apr 4, 20234 min read
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Do I ever cry?
Not a very manly thing to say and I've never talked about this to anyone but when you have you child took off you it leaves an emptiness in the pit of your gut. A strange feeling, almost like you can't get your breath, like you can't quite satisfy your breathing, like you're heart is beating irregularly. When I sat to build this post today, it wasn't meant to be this one - there is a long list of post's for upload and this was potentially one of them but I wasn't sure if I co
Sonny's Dad
Mar 31, 20233 min read
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We did try
So, even though my intuition told me it would not be healthy to remain in the relationship with Sarah, during 2004 we did try to work...
Sonny's Dad
Mar 24, 20233 min read
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Where did it all go wrong?
The root cause of all the problems we've encountered has a simple answer to it but was never simple to resolve. Like all relationships some are made to last and some aren't - the relationship with Sarah and I just wasn't meant to be. We were together for around 2 and a half years, it stumbled on towards the end but that was basically the time scale. That period also includes the pregnancy with Sonny. We both knew that the relationship had become too fractious and during that
Sonny's Dad
Mar 22, 20234 min read
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The Family Court, The Process, The Outcome
I will begin to document the journey we took through the courts to establish and maintain contact with Sonny. This will be documented over several posts and broken down into various parts. As Sonny's Dad I knew from the very first second that Sarah told me she was pregnant that we would end up in court. Did i think that by the time Sonny was 18 that he wouldn't have spoken to us for nearly 10 years, no I didn't that but what happened at court came as no surprise in how Sarah
Sonny's Dad
Mar 21, 20232 min read
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