Bill Text: IL HR0113 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Designates April of 2013 as "Stop Parental Alienation Awareness Month" in the State of Illinois.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-04-30 - Resolution Adopted [HR0113 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HR0113-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, Parental alienation is the psychological term | ||||||
| 3 | used to denote the unacceptable manipulative
process used by | ||||||
| 4 | one parent to alienate a child from the other parent by | ||||||
| 5 | disparaging conduct or words to
encourage the child to dislike | ||||||
| 6 | or break communication ties with the other parent; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, This process is most often used in the course of | ||||||
| 8 | the parents' divorce or separation; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, While divorce is the most common situation where | ||||||
| 10 | parental alienation is used, it also has
been known to happen | ||||||
| 11 | during the course of unhappy marriages or relationships that do | ||||||
| 12 | not end in
divorce, as one parent seeks the exclusive | ||||||
| 13 | companionship and alliance of the children or of a particular
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| 14 | child in the family; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, Parental alienation can be viewed as a form of | ||||||
| 16 | child abuse because it denies a child,
through cruel | ||||||
| 17 | manipulation, a loving a supportive relationship with both | ||||||
| 18 | parents; and is not in the best
interest of the child; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, The unhappiness bred by parental alienation has | ||||||
| 20 | been known to lead to child kidnapping,
murder, and suicide, or | ||||||
| 21 | other destructive behavior as has been reported in the media; | ||||||
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| 1 | and
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| 2 | WHEREAS, Awareness of parental alienation and its negative | ||||||
| 3 | consequences on family relationships,
and on children caught in | ||||||
| 4 | this unhealthy negative web between his or her parents, will | ||||||
| 5 | help to highlight
this problem and lessen its occurrence; | ||||||
| 6 | therefore, be it
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| 7 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 8 | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 9 | we designate the month of April of 2013 as "Stop Parental
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| 10 | Alienation Awareness Month" in the State of Illinois.
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