Unabridged Conversation with Bea Yorker
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In Andrea’s full conversation with law professor and nurse Bea Yorker, they discuss the complexities of medical child abuse, their work with survivors, and debunk some of the most common misconceptions about Munchausen by proxy/ medical child abuse.
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I respect Bea Yorker's professional perspective on the balance, about medical child abuse. But I disagree with her about reunification, and about how this method of abuse has anything in common with drug and alcohol addiction. I was actually quite stunned to hear her going on and on in such glowing language about the potential of "reunification" between a tortured child and the torturer. Also, "gender stereotypes" are not why the Courts are so inept in regards to this kind of abuse: it is the subhuman status of children that causes the ineptitude and the difficulty of the Courts. The Courts see children as property of their parents rather than as human beings. That is why "reunification" is emphasized above the lives and deaths of children. "Reunification" benefits the parent(s) at expense of the child(ren); "reunification" validates and "heals" the abusers at the expense of the survivors. Abuse and torture, particularly the kind we have been hearing about in these episodes, are a CHO