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A counterpoint on Dr. Richard Gardner and Jill Jones Soderman's opinion from a well-known advocate (I'm trying to get her to come on the show):

I knew Dr. Gardner personally since I was 5 years old. I am now 64. So don’t believe everything you are told. He was my therapist. I went to school with his children. And my best friends hung at his house. He never ever inappropriately touched anyone.

These attacks and lies about Richard came about when he was ordered to testify as an expert in several family cases where the mothers had alienated their children from the fathers. They decided since he followed the science of toddler behaviors that proved toddlers, until they are properly directed about manners, will mistakenly fondle or touch their own private parts in exploration. This was turned around as him being a pedophile. Check the child science for yourself to find out that this is a normal toddler behavior and not indicative of sexual abuse. To be sexual abuse, the toddlers would have to be doing the fondling to others, not themselves. These are just vindictive women.

In fact, going back as far as 1997, this group of women were attacking me for standing up for Richard. My username at the time was putzangel. Apparently, the word “putz’ means a part of the penis. Their attacks consisted in calling me a penis lover. My response? Well, I would hope so since I am heterosexual. This is how crazy making these women are. This is how irrational these women are.

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What he wrote in his books is real. It's pro pedophile BS. I never said ge was a pedophile but ge stood up for them, including Woody Allen. He was involved in many cases and always disbelieved allegations of sexual molestation.

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Those of working for "family" court reform over the past 15-20+ years (or more) know that the entire Dr. Gardner story has been a long beaten to dead horse, endlessly recycled, and used as a scapegoat for those trying to debunk the reality of PA and those working against shared and equal parenting.

Whatever one doctor may or may not have written DECADES ago has absolutely no relevance on the underlying causes of "family" court corruption. It detracts from what we need to focus on and be doing.

It's well past time we moved on, instead endlessly spinning our wheels and getting stuck in this gender-based nonsense.

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The guy who created PA is a quack and a pro pedophile freak, but the concept is totally real. That makes sense.

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