New Study: Reveals The Long-Term Effects of Parental Child Abduction A new study was recently published that investigates the actual experiences of those were were abducted many years ago as children. This study was based on the personal interviews of abducted children. The study found that a high proportion of the participants reported suffering very significant effects from their abductions in terms of their mental health. Many of the interviewees described how they grew to accept the abductor’s account of the left-behind parent. One interviewee reported how her abductor father’s stories about her left-behind mother not caring about her (otherwise she would find her) became her reality. Over time, she came to hate her mother because she believed that she had abandoned her, and the bond between them had been completely erased. Another interviewee reported being scared of being found by her left-behind father because of all the things she had been told about him. She did not know what ...
