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"Survival Strategies for Alienated  and Estranged Parents and Grandparents at the Holidays"

​On Sunday, December 1, 2019 at 8 PM EST, Dr. Joshua Coleman will be our guest speaker on our international support seminar. His topic for this call is a much needed one. These calls are of no charge to anyone. You have the option to either call in on our conference line, audio skype or download our desk top app.

Many alienated parents and grandparents feel a sense of dread when a holiday approaches. Whether it's their own birthday, the birthday of their estranged child, their grandchild, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Hannukah or the High Holy Days, they all want to know how they are going to survive it. Some common questions are:
* What do I tell people when they ask me what I'm going to do with my kids over the holidays or my birthday?
* How do I manage my feelings of sadness, jealousy, or anger at my friends or children?
* Are there any activities that are better or worse to do on those days?
* Will I ever be able to get through a holiday and feel sane and whole again?
In this short lecture, we’ll discuss do’s and don’ts for surviving the holidays.

We have 35 countries who participate in our calls with over 1,000 callers participating. Each caller may submit one question each and your question must be in relation to the subject of this call. Deadline to submit your question is Tuesday, November 26, 2019. The deadline to register for the call is Sunday, December 1, 2019 no later than 5 PM EST. These are both firm deadlines!! To submit your question and/or register for the call, please email familyaccessinnc@aol.com. 

Joshua Coleman is a psychologist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and a Senior Fellow with the Council on Contemporary Families, a non-partisan organization of leading sociologists, historians, psychologists and demographers dedicated to providing the press and public with the latest research and best-practice findings about American families. He has lectured at Harvard University, The University of California at Berkeley, The University of London, Cornell Weill Medical School, and blogs on parent-adult child relationships for the U.C. Berkeley publication, Greater Good Magazine.

Dr. Coleman is frequently contacted by the media for opinions and commentary about changes in the American family. He has been a frequent guest on the Today Show, NPR, The BBC,  NYU Psychiatry Radio and has also been featured on Sesame Street, 20/20, Good Morning America, America Online Coaches, PBS, and numerous news programs for FOX, ABC, CNN, and NBC television. 

 His advice has appeared in The New York Times, The Times of London, Atlantic Magazine, The Shriver Report, Fortune, Newsweek, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Psychology Today, U.S. World and News Report, Parenting Magazine, The Baltimore Sun and many others.

He is the author of numerous articles and chapters and has written four books: The Makeover: Finding Happiness in Imperfect Harmony (St. Martin's Press); The Lazy Husband: How to Get Men to Do More Parenting and Housework (St. Martin's Press); When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along (HarperCollins); and Married with Twins: Life, Love and the Pursuit of Marital Harmony. His books have been translated into Chinese, Croatian, and Korean, and are also available in the U.K., Canada, and Australia.

He is the co-editor, along with historian Stephanie Coontz of seven online volumes of Unconventional Wisdom: News You Can Use, a compendium of noteworthy research on the contemporary family, gender, sexuality, poverty, and work-family issues.

Dr Coleman also writes music for film and television. His music has been featured on Lethal Weapon, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Longmire, Shameless, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Fresh Off the Boat, Supergirl, Mistresses, Hustlers, RuPaul's Drag Race and many more.

PRE EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION BEGINS JANUARY 2, 2020

https://www.familyaccessfightingforchildrensrights.org/helping-courts-understand-the-phenomenon-of-alienation-nc-conference.html

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CALL IN FOR THE HOLIDAYS

 I know many are already starting to feel the effects of the upcoming holidays. I am going to open our conference line beginning at 5 PM EST on December 24, 2019 through midnight December 25, 2019. Listed below are the times people may call in just to chat together and be with each other. This can also be skyped and through our desk top download app as well. If you wish to participate, please let me know. I hope this helps. 

Please invite others to this call and also to our international seminar calls. These are so effective and helpful to those attending. Please reach out and help others. To register please email familyaccessinnc@aol.com.

For our families,
Elaine Cobb

December 24, 2019

5 PM EDT - 6 PM EST
8 PM EDT - 9 PM EST 
11 PM EDT - !2:00AM EST

December 25, 2019

2 AM EDT - 3 AM EST
5 AM EDT - 6 AM EST
8 AM EDT - 9 AM EST
11 AM EDT - 12 PM EST
2 PM EDT - 3 PM EST
5 PM EDT - 6 PM EST
8 PM EDT - 9 PM EST
11 PM EDT - 12 AM EST

MISSION  STATEMENT

Our main concern is the children and grandchildren and then the complete family.  Sadly the children and grandchildren who are alienated from family are being treated as pawns and property. They are neither. They are human beings.They should not be regarded as such by their parents or any other family member.  We contend that it should be illegal to use children as pawns or instruments of spiteful behavior in an effort to prevent them from interaction with ALL other family members.  Our purpose and goal is to ensure the preservation of extended, traditional family relationships. In the process of this hell on earth called alienation, we need all the knowledge and support we can get to help our children and grandchildren and then ourselves. To contact us, please email familyaccessinnc@aol.com.
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GOALS

• We will work in bringing awareness to people on the subject of alienation and the effects it has on both the children, grandchildren and their families. Alienation is abuse! We will have many of our top experts on alienation in the world sharing information on their own pages here to help you learn more on alienation and other topics regarding alienation. We are also expanding our web site with much more information including locations of support groups in your area, professionals in your area who do have knowledge of alienation as well as blogs by experts and testimonies from alienated family members.
• To offer international seminar calls with guest speakers who have expertise in the subject matter for that call in giving support and knowledge to alienated family members and professionals who work in the field of alienation. Parental alienation and grandparent alienation and all other family members is hell on earth as too it is for the children and grandchildren dealing with this. These calls are a tremendous help to those going through this and those who work with those who are. Please join us.

HISTORY

In April 2012, Family Access- Fighting for Children's Rights was founded by Elaine Cobb who is also president. Elaine herself is alienated from her granddaughter Dare who she has never seen and is now 8 years old and her adult son Bryan who she has not seen since December 26, 2010. Her granddaughter Dare is alienated from her whole side of her daddy's family. This is why she determined to try in helping make a difference in this abuse being caused to the children, grandchildren and family members. In the beginning, her goal was to help those in the state of North Carolina where the founder  and president, Elaine Cobb resides. In just a short time, Elaine realized that alienation was a huge epidemic which was indeed all over our world. She realized at that time she wanted to do all that she could to help those suffering through this hell on earth. She started the international seminar calls nationwide. In less than a year, she took the calls on an international level. Now Family Access- Fighting for Children's Rights helps in supporting 36 countries in educating as many alienated family members and professionals in regards to alienation through our international seminar calls. 

We also know one of the biggest ways to defeat alienation is to bring more awareness to those who know nothing or very little about alienation. This website was designed with that in mind as well as giving information to alienated family members to help them know all they can to get through this and one day hopefully be able to see their alienated loved ones. It is also here to help professionals i.e.., attorneys, mental health professionals, judges, legislators, school officials, researchers, writers, child advocates, etc. There is much to learn and we hope to give all as much as we can to help.

Laws must be changed as well to protect the rights of these alienated children and grandchildren to see ALL their family members. Family Access- Fighting for Children's Rights has worked tirelessly for equal shared parenting laws as well as grandparents' rights. We will continue in this fight for all the children and grandchildren in our world. Alienation is abuse!!! 

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