Until you have personal experience of divorce and child custody litigation, it would be difficult to understand or appreciate what Alec Baldwin (with Mark tab) writes about in his book a promise to ourselves: A journey through fatherhood and divorce.
Many, I think, would consider her book as some far-fetched Hollywood gossip and a way to get more celebrity status, or even a way to defend his cause and blame it on as I suppose it is hard not to be affected by the roles that players play in films and what you read in trashy magazines and newspapers. For me, Alec Baldwin certainly does not have "nice guy" reputation-if anything, it is more like "womanizer". Then again, is Kim Basinger any Angel, either.
Surprisingly, I lost my my first cynicism in his book quickly. After reading only two pages to the introduction, I had an immediate affinity with divorce and custody issues he addresses and his motivation for doing so. It was really difficult to book as almost every page, after it, but negative and critical, rang true. Even with his kind of fame and fortune is Alec Baldwin is not immune to the endless frustration and extensive emotional, mental, physical and financial drain that is unfortunately all too common when dealing with an American family law and there are players of judges, lawyers, court ordered therapists and evaluators and child services caseworkers.
My personal experience of divorce and custody dispute is a supporting partner to a wonderful man and loving father to three children. Unfortunately, continues his ex has been very cooperative in co-parenting, so even after years of court hearings, therapy sessions and investigations, custody fight. His former also has released many of the alienerande behaviors similar to those of Alex Baldwin ex, even as far as distort and twist reality, manipulating people to take her side and false allegations of domestic violence and child abuse.
Faced with this relationship, I would never understand how a single parent, particularly a father could give up and walk away from his own children in a divorce. I also had a bit of awareness and understanding of how the family courts act and what parent Alienation Syndrome (PAS). But it would not itself, I have believed that the system is so weak, slow and biased, and that parents could harm their own children in a creeping and subversive, with those farmers gaining an upper hand and mistakenly play the system to their advantage.
There is no doubt that men are also capable of presenting their children from their mothers. But worryingly, whether you want to hear it or not, the reality is parental alienation is overwhelming, perpetrated by men against men. Not that this gives men an excuse to give up the fight for their rights as fathers, but it is not surprising that many of them end of walking away from an already bad situation like professionals and ex-spouses who are unscrupulous and willing to play dirty and the family law system has done worse and worse.
Among all the doom and gloom of divorce and custody disputes offer Alec Baldwin a glimmer of hope for those who have or are undergoing painful journey of fatherhood in the middle of a contentious divorce. He gives some practical advice and insights on prenuptial agreements, to choose the right lawyer, divorce and child custody strategies and how groups and feminists have affected family law and the effects of custody. He also writes about how the inevitable clarity of time influenced his relationship with his daughter and invites readers growing to make a promise to not give up.
Alison Grey is a freelance writer and vitamin fanatics. She is also a regular contributor to the health and nutrition in angiemedia.com
