Insight With Ron Berglas - Cracking The Ice

[@4Batgirl4]

Thank you Ron Berglas for helping raise awareness to this devastating form of emotional and mental child abuse. In my humble opinion, if we had a rebuttable presumption of equal, shared parenting at the onset of divorce or separation, in the absence of abuse, neglect or abandonment that would reduce the number of cases of PA. According to Dr. Amy Baker's research for her book tilted; Breaking the ties that bind, over 80% of PA cases occur in high conflict divorce and the balance in high conflict marriages. In the majority of the cases, PA is used to gain the higher power in our existing court system and sadly, our existing system facilitates this type of behaviour. The longer the court process takes, the more money the lawyers make. We have had equal, shared parenting bills in parliament in the past and our biggest opposition was the Canadian Bar Association because they have a vested interested in maintaining the 'status quo" - if we did obtain a rebuttable presumption of equal, shared parenting at the onset of divorce or separation, our family law lawyers would lose two thirds of their income.... of course they don't want that and they are not acting in the "Best Interest of the Child".Like Brazil and Mexico, we need a new law that defines and punishes PA here in Canada, we also need to bring our existing family law system up to date and change our laws to reflect a rebuttable presumption of equal, shared parenting at the onset of divorce or separation - that would be in the "Best Interest of the Child".Just to distinguish between PA and PAS;, PA is the parenting behaviour and PAS is the consequences of that behaviour - we need to continue raising awareness to this devastating form of child abuse and we need to reach out to our government and ask them to support equal, shared parenting and to make it a reality!Without your help, our future is lost. Our children are our future and if we raise them to disrespect and hate, what do we have?

[@matejadjedovic]

So this is where Ron Berglas went! You were one of my favourite character actors on British television. I remember you used to pop up on a lot of my favourite TV shows such as "Rumpole of the Bailey", "Jonathan Creek", "Kavanagh QC", "Boon", and the unjustly forgotten "Pulaski". However, my two favourite Ron Berglas roles were as the sardonic pathologist in "Messiah" (I really hoped you'd come back for series two) and Dr Leidner in one of my favourite and goriest episodes of "Poirot". I was so sad to learn you gave up acting (why?).

[@poughquag]

Thank you for the kind words. Sorry to have taken so long to reply but I recently suffered a stroke and my time has been spent recovering. I gave up acting because I wanted to be of use. Now I teach English in a school for kids who have had challenging lives, and theatre in a community college. I may act again onstage with my son who is studying to be an actor. But that's it. Thank you for following my career.

[@matejadjedovic]

Wow! Thanks for replying. I didn't see the comment as for some reason I didn't get a notification. I'm sorry about the stroke and I hope you're feeling better by now! I'm also glad you've found your calling in life and that you feel "of use", but I do hope you know you were most certainly of use in your past career as well, and you helped (in no small part either) to bring joy to many viewers, myself included. Thanks for all the roles!

[@poughquag]

@@matejadjedovic Thank you.