Excerpt & Giveaway - Parentectomy by Christine Giancarlo

 

Parentectomy: A narrative ethnography of 30 cases of parental alienation and what to do about it

by Christine Giancarlo

 

GENRE: Non-fiction 

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BLURB: 

When parents separate and divorce, kids come last in family law. Should children's welfare be measured in "billable hours"? Christine Giancarlo thinks kids come first and need both parents. Parentectomy moves us toward that goal... for the sake of the children.

 

Based on Dr. Giancarlo's peer-reviewed research study, Kids Come Last: The Effect of Family Law Involvement in Parental Alienation, this book tells, in their own voices, the stories of thirty loving, capable and dependable parents who, nonetheless, were removed from their children's lives. It is also the author's own journey through the devastation caused by parental alienation.

 

This book sheds light on an urgent social crisis, enabled by a broken family law system. An equitable and just model for eliminating this form of child abuse is proposed with an urgent plea for its implementation.

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EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT: 

RUSS 

I have two children: one adopted daughter who was six months old (now 12 years) when I met my second wife and our biological son (now 10 years). I have no children from my first marriage. Let me start at the beginning of my nightmare. My girlfriend (who would become my second ex-wife) and I moved in together in 2000 after a six-month relationship and I bought a house. As soon as I did so, she quit her 4th year of university, stopped taking the Pill without my knowledge, and we became pregnant. I now believe this was a set-up.

 We married in 2002 but it only lasted ten months. She would pick fights with me so she could build an arsenal to use against me. Each time I tried to walk away from the marriage she threatened police action, said she would go to the women’s shelter and I would never see my children again. 

Early on she encouraged me to get a job overseas so we could move there to save money and then move back to Canada. When our son was born in January 2002, I had just started a job in Abu Dhabi. I was to do my first tour of two months and then come back to get her and the kids. We talked by phone every day while I was away. She packed up the house in the meantime but unbeknownst to me separated her stuff from mine. When I got home for a month, we all went camping and took some nice family photos, spent some time together in the U.S. and then came back home a few days before I was due back at work in the U.A.E. 

I thought we were moving there as a family. But my ex had other ideas. She was extremely insecure and had a lawyer friend whose husband had been awarded custody upon their divorce. At our baby shower, I overheard this woman telling my wife that all men are cheaters and instructing my wife on how long she needed to stay in our house before she was entitled to the sole ownership of it. 

We had a third bad argument over nothing, and I chose to sleep on the couch. Every time it should have been a five-minute conversation but turned into a six-hour yelling match. On this occasion the police got involved and so did my mother. My ex walked out of our house with a bag, which appeared to have been pre-packed. The police said they wouldn’t arrest me as there were no grounds and I agreed to go stay at a friend’s. Our kids went to my parents’ house so they were safe. But my ex told the police she was going to the women’s shelter. They asked her why since I was already leaving. She just said she wanted to. By now it was about 5:00 in the morning. The police reported that the whole mess was about money… it was!  

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AUTHOR Bio and Links: 

Christine Giancarlo is an applied anthropologist at Mount Royal University since 1992. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Services from Capella University, Minnesota, and an M.A. in Primatology from the University of Calgary, Alberta. Growing up with two loving parents, four brothers and being blessed with her own children, Devon and Carmen, inform her holistic perspective on the family. Christine resides in Calgary with her partner, Bert, and their dog, Gavin. 

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