Bubbles of Love Campaign for Parental Alienation Awareness

Today I'm going to write about something very dear to my heart. It's not something I bring up often because many people don't understand what it is. I'm an advocate for the Parental Alienation Awareness Organization in honor of my stepdaughter.

Parental Alienation, to keep it short, is basically when one parent tries to create a negative relationship between a child they share with the other parent. This can be done by talking negatively about the other parent in front of their child, making the child fear the other parent, bringing the child into adult discussions concerning the other parent, and the list goes on and on.

My husband has an 8-year-old daughter he has not seen in going on three years. Due to his case still being handled in court I don't want to go into too much detail, but his daughter is suffering from and has been diagnosed by two counselors as having Parental Alienation Syndrome. For whatever reason, this innocent child has been talked out of having any kind of positive relationship with her dad, and it has resulted in years of hurt and pain for every party involved.

She has missed out on getting to know her two half-brothers. We have missed getting to see her smiling face at Christmas three years in a row. There are unwrapped birthday presents stored in a closet with her other belongings. The emptiness my husband and I feel is nothing compared to the emotional trauma she goes through as a victim of this often times overlooked abuse.

In support of my husband's fight to one day resume a beautiful relationship with his daughter, I am advocating to start a Georgia Chapter of the Parental Alienation Awareness Organization. This begins by bringing together other parents who have been alienated and creating awareness where it counts. It means ensuring alienated parents and their children have access to the best psychiatrists, lawyers, and other advocates that can truly make a difference. It means informing the public of this abuse and creating an environment to support the ending of it.

Some parents may not even know that what they are experiencing, or what they are doing, is considered Parental Alienation. If you would like more information, please visit

http://www.paawareness.org/ 

http://www.parental-alienation-awareness.com/

http://www.bubblesofloveday.com/home.asp

Additionally, join us April 25, 2012 at 12:00 noon at the Toddler Park in Loganville (Behind City Hall) for Bubbles of Love Day. For 10 minutes at noon, people all over the world blow bubbles to honor alienated children everywhere. Myself and others who are impacted by this cause will be there. For more information on the local effort to raise awareness you can find us on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/193876734053097/ or search on Facebook for "Georgia Bubbles of Love Campaign for PAAO." We are also looking for bubble donations, so if you have any information concerning that, let me know!

We are in the process of trying to get Mayor Ray Nunley of Loganville to sign a Proclamation declaring April 25, 2012 as Parental Alienation Awareness Day. If you would like to support our efforts, help us by spreading the word! There is certainly power in numbers.

If you read through this, thank you! If you would like more information or want to help leave a comment or email me at hilaryetta@gmail.com.