Critical Conversation: Reunification Camps Exposed

An emerging cottage industry, spawned by the theory of parental alienation, is feeding off family court cases. It is now responsible for a proliferation of a largely unregulated business opportunity across the globe. Unproven reunification multi-day intensive treatment, also known as reunification camps, are often coined as educational seminars run by unlicensed “education” professionals and are being heavily marketed into the family court system. These programs are positioned as a mechanism to reunify children with their “alienated” or what they label as the targeted parent, which is often the child is being reunified with the alleged abusing parent in a family court case. This panel of experts and survivors will examine this phenomenon, its risks to children who have suffered abuse; and uncover why the federal government is not only urging, but incentivizing states to ban non-scientifically supported practices as part of the child safety measures incorporated into the 2022 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).

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