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I'd have more than a “histrionic personality disorder” if the SS was after my children! As far as I can make out a personality disorder means you're not mentally ill, but they just plain don't like you. What has this woman done to endanger her children?
Katie, Bristol,
@AJ, Northampton,
Because fathers are men, and men can cope...obviously! Especially with something as trivial as 5 kids who you financially and emotionally contribute to for x years before mummy goes off on a "girls only" trip, as with this case.
Howard, Manchester,
Something smells very iffy to me in this story.
Social Services seems to be more a front, used to track them down.
Is she RH neg blood by any chance.?
Perhaps another woman seen as too strong for the system, so needs psychiatic "help", like the witch hunts of the dark ages.
Christina Barrett, London, UK
A. Bathurst - read below
Roy Meadow didn't 'invent' Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy, he merely misdiagnosed it in some cases. It has not been discredited, rather his professional opinion as to whether it has manifested or not.
Peter, London,
"not by inflicting her with the loss of her beloved family"
What about the father, and the grandparents? Why should their loss of contact with the five girls be unremarked?
Let's be honest, if this was a man on the run, the public and tabloids would have already be baying for blood.
AJ, Northampton,
David and A Bathurst may be right, they may not. The fact is we live in a system where social services are either overzealous or grossly negligent depending on your postcode. And on both sides of the coin there are victims.
Anne, London, uk
HPD cannot be a serious disorder - otherwise it would have been applied to a number of our Politicians.
David Michael, London, UK
David and A Bathurst.Would u be the same people who will be wringing their hands if one or all of her kids were to be found harmed because proper steps were not taken for the safefty of the kids?
Blossom, Paris, France
David from Evesham - haven't you read the papers over the last couple of weeks?
Nigel, Brighton,
Since she has obviously not harmed her daughters in the last 6 months and none of her children has shown any sign of wanting to leave her one wonders if there is any need to threaten to split this family up. It isn't aas if any of them are being beaten or abused.
A Ross, Durham, England
What kind of society is this that, time after time, rips families apart "for their own good". Now we're "out to get her". Couldn't some other solution be found while keeping the family together? This mother needs help, perhaps, but not by inflicting her with the loss of her beloved family.
David, Evesham, UK
“histrionic personality disorder” ?
Is that something else invented by that chap Meadow, who was responsible for the discredited "Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy" ?
A.Bathurst, London, UK