A MUST BUY book by Alec Baldwin about his experience with family courts, divorce, Parental Alienation, and fatherhood. Alec Baldwin's A Promise to Ourselves is getting rave reviews and is further exposing the truth of what happens in today's family court systems.
Please buy A Promise to Ourselves through Amazon.com now or your local favorite bookstore. Be sure to give Alec Baldwin's A Promise to Ourselves to someone else when you are finished reading it so that even more can hear the truth. Alec Baldwin's A Promise to Ourselves is now a part of my recommended "Must Read" books, along with Dr. Stephen Baskerville's Taken Into Custody. Both books are money well spent. Be sure to educate yourself on Title IV-D to truly understand the problem which ALL tax-payers are funding. Also, be sure to review the research in support of shared parenting.
Please take the time to thank Alec Baldwin for sharing his personal story in A Promise to Ourselves for the sake of change; to protect our children from the family law industry. Visit Alec Baldwin's website and leave your message in his guestbook.
Amazon.com A Promise to Ourselves Book Description:
“I have been through some of the worst of contentious divorce litigation,” Alec Baldwin declares in A Promise to Ourselves. Using a very personal approach, he offers practical guidance to help others avoid the anguish he has endured.
An Academy and Tony Award nominee and a 2007 recipient of Golden Globe, SAG, and Television Critics Association Awards for best actor in a comedy, Alec Baldwin is one of the best-known, most successful actors in the world. His relationship with Kim Basinger, the Academy Award–winning actress, lasted nearly a decade. They have a daughter named Ireland, and for a time, theirs seemed to be the model of a successful Hollywood marriage. But in 2000 they separated and in 2002 divorced. Their split---specifically the custody battle surrounding Ireland---would be the subject of media attention for years to come.
In his own life and others’, Baldwin has seen the heavy toll that divorce can take---psychologically, emotionally, and financially. He has been extensively involved in divorce litigation, and he has witnessed the way that noncustodial parents, especially fathers, are often forced to abandon hopes of equitable rights when it comes to their children. He makes a powerful case for reexamining and changing the way divorce and child custody is decided in this country and levels a scathing attack at what he calls the “family law industry.”
When it comes to his experiences with judges, court-appointed therapists, and lawyers, Baldwin pulls no punches. He casts a light on his own divorce and the way the current family law system affected him, his ex-wife, and his daughter, as well as many other families. This is an important, informative, and deeply felt book on a contentious subject that offers hope of finding a better way.
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I am so glad he wrote this, PAS needs a voice and one that others will listen to.
Posted by: Robin | September 26, 2008 at 08:43 AM
Dear Mr. Baldwin,
Thank you so much for all the effort you have put into addressing these issues which affect our children. (Compliment not intended to make you feel any more attractive than you are.)
Please remember in your further efforts that mothers are also subject to seductive and deliberate lies by former spouses, unqualified social workers who love the seduction, judges who haven't the common sense of wart and the same pain you have suffered.
Every word you wrote hit home for me. As a mother. Our family courts are not a gender specific atrocity.
Thank you again and may the Holiday Season bring you joy.
Vickie
Posted by: Vickie Russell | December 24, 2008 at 02:19 AM
Alec, I'm going through same exact situation as you!!! Reading your book I was shaking in disbelief at the exact same behavior expressed by the ex-spouse and the children. You are spot on.
SP
Posted by: stu puller | April 08, 2009 at 05:06 PM
Alec Baldwin is a genuine human being and a class act. You cannot be a true New Yorker and not love Alec Baldwin, not simply for his talent for the craft of acting but for being a man who puts his money where his mouth is. He is someone who so many local charities have leaned on to support their worthwhile causes. He has lent his name, showed up and assisted many important organizations to leverage off of him. And I have witnessed him at events treating each and every photographer and journalist with genuine respect and not indifference. Many celebrities could learn a thing or two from this man. Mr. Baldwin in this book expresses the profound frustration of many loving, caring fathers across America who have seen the Family Law Industry destroy the lives of many good men. How many more good men, great fathers have to be destroyed in this country before the REAL FEMINISTS stand up look at the situation and acknowledge that the pendulum has swung too far and that the legal system is now rigged in a rather perverted fashion against the rights of fathers? We always hear in the mainstream media about so called deadbeat dads. But how often do we hear about loving fathers bankrupted and emotionally destroyed by woman hell bent on alienating their children from the love and affection of their fathers and using every legal tool available to them to gain an advantage over fathers?. Feminism in many respects has taken the cause too far, over reached and has allowed the legal system to destroy men in the name of parenting and the rights of mothers. I have witnessed in my life too many men destroyed, financially and otherwise by a Family Court System that prefers the rights of women to the rights of men. SHAME ON US. This is America's quiet and under reported nightmare.
Posted by: Christopher London | September 25, 2009 at 11:01 PM