About Us
Renata S. Roux, born in 1982 in Ficksburg, South Africa is a mother of two girls. After having left her husband in 2001 at the age of only 19 due to the physical and emotional abuse she experienced in which their little girl physically got hurt, she had no idea that the new relationship she entered into with a man 13 years older than her was going to be much worse. She did not only experience domestic violence in the form of physical and emotional abuse, but also sexual abuse. It took years for her to realize that she was not at fault and that what was happening to her was wrong. Unfortunately, she suffers from a disease called Auto-Immune Hepatitis which affected her mental state because she never received any medical treatment. Her youngest daughter suffers from Cerebral Palsy from birth and in 2007 her oldest daughter was removed from her care because Renata was in a violent relationship and had nowhere to go. She had no friends and was isolated from her family by a man and his family she now believes to have serious personality disorders. Her escape was writing blogs (links provided on the site) since 2006. Through that she met someone who believed her and who she learned to love and trust. Someone who helped her to escape from the abuse, but she had to make several sacrifices which eventually led to her having to face what is called Parental Alienation. Being a South African, she was facing a system that had very little sympathy. She came to realize that she was fighting against a system that was too strong and that she was never going to win on her own. Ever since she left South Africa in March 2008 she started doing research which inspired her to create this site. Exactly two years later in March 2010, she launched this site. Her goal is to create awareness about Parental Alienation and Hostile-Aggressive Parenting in South Africa and to make people realize how closely it is related to Domestic Violence by using her own story and documentation as proof that Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) does exist, no matter how much people (mostly mothers) deny it, that it is child abuse and that it needs to stopped.
“I am not doing this for myself, or because I cry sometimes because I miss my children, or because I want people to feel sorry for me. I am doing this because I realized that I am not alone, that there are other mothers and fathers out there who just have no idea what to do to fight the system. In fact, they don’t even know that Parental Alienation exist and neither did I until two years ago. Most of all though, I am doing this for my children because I want them to know one day that I never stopped fighting, that I love them both with all my heart and I want them to know the truth. I am not scared to face the system, or the Government, or anyone else. I will keep fighting, no matter what I have to sacrifice, to let my children know one day that even though this is the only way I could do it, at least I tried.” - Renata |
Andrew J Batiste, born in 1982, in Guernsey, Channel Islands is Renata's fiancè. He met her via a mobile chat site in 2006 and has been her only support since her battle against the South African system started. Himself being a father of a little girl he had lost in much the same way Renata lost her children, he understood her feelings and kept her strong, even when her health started to deteriorate and she wanted to give up fighting. Despite the fact that they spend most of their time apart, living in different countries, he has always been there for her.
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