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           "45. I have a child who is bad"
           "46. I sometimes think of myself first"
           "47. I sometimes feel worthless"
           "49. I am sometimes very sad"
           "52. I often feel worried"
           "56. I am often easily upset"
           "57. Sometimes I have bad thoughts"
           "60. I have never hated another person"
           "63. I am often worried inside"
           "67. People have caused me a lot of pain"
           "70. I never get mad at others"
           "71. I always get along with others"
           "72. I often think about what I have to do"
           "73. I find it hard to relax"
           "74. These days a person doesn't really know on whom one can
                count"
           "75. My life is happy"
           "78. Other people do not understand how I feel"
           "84. I have headaches"
           "88. People who ask for help are weak"
           "90. I do not laugh very much"
           "91. I have several close friends"
           "93. I have fears no one knows about"
           "95. Life often seems useless to me"
           "98. People do not understand me"
           "99. I often feel worthless"
          "100. Other people have made my life unhappy"
          "103. I have many personal problems"
          "105. I often feel very upset"
          "106. People sometimes take advantage of me"
          "109. I am easily upset by my problems"
          "112. Many things in life make me angry"
          "113. My child has special problems"
          "118. I am often depressed"
          "120. I am often upset"
          "121. People don't get along with me"
          "125. I am never unfair to others"
          "138. I am often upset and do not know why"
          "139. My daily work upsets me"
          "140. I sometimes fear that my children will not love me"
          "142. I have read articles and books on child rearing"
          "143. I often feel very alone"
          "144. People should not show anger"
          "145. I often feel alone"
          "146. I sometimes say bad words"
          "151. Other people have made my life hard"
          "153. I sometimes worry that my needs will not be met"
          "154. I often feel afraid"
          "157. I never raise my voice in anger"
          "159. I sometimes think of myself before others"
          "160. I always tell the truth"
How many of these statements actually do characterize persons who have been
falsely accused of child abuse is a question best answered by qualified 
ental
health professionals.  Or yourself.  Many of them do - a person taking the
Child Abuse Potential Inventory who has been falsely accused of child abuse
has a strong chance of showing a high child abuse potential.
Wakefield and Underwager in PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF PARENTS MAKING
FALSE ACCUSATIONS OF SEXUAL ABUSE IN DIVORCE & CUSTODY DISPUTES (American
Psychological Association, August 14, 1990) presented personality character-
istics on 72 falsely accusing parents and 103 falsely accused parents. They
utilized MMPI profiles as well as other psychological data, and separated the
results by sex of the parent.  Readers who have taken the MMPI (Minnesota
Multiphasic Personality Inventory) will note that many of the statements on
the Child Abuse Potential Inventory are similar.
Blush and Ross in SEXUAL ALLEGATIONS IN DIVORCE: THE SAID SYNDROME (Concilia-
tion Courts Review, June 1987) also reported on personality profiles of both
accusing and accused parents, and the same authors in Sexual Abuse Validity
Discriminators in the Divorced or Divorcing Family (ISSUES IN CHILD ABUSE
ACCUSATION; Winter 1990) further discussed personalities and behaviors of
persons involved in abuse allegations.
The works of these psychologists are notable & a start in the right 
irection.
In The SAID Victim (NetWORK; July/August 1991: Family Law Review, New York
State Bar Association; June 1990: THE FAMILY LAW COMMENTATOR, The Florida 
ar;
May 1990: NetWORK; Spring 1990) it was stated there had been no in-depth re-
search studies on SAID Victims. There still has not been any type of 
esearch,
on a national basis, by the mental health community.    When compared to the
tremendous amount of information that is available, which covers more than
four decades, on sex offenders, child abuse, and child molesters, the same
cannot be said for similar research on falsely accused persons.
Consider a short list of psychological, psychosexual, and physical tests
available to the mental health community: the penile plethysmograph, the
Adjective Check List (ACL), the Motivation Analysis Test, the Pacht 
ostility/
Guilt Inventory, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the Spence-
Helmreich Attitudes toward Women Scale, the California Psychological 
nventory
(CFI), the Bender-Gestalt Test, the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory
(MCMI), the Clarke Sexual History Questionnaire, the Thorne Sexual Inventory,
etc.
In summary the Child Abuse Potential Inventory is one of many such 
nventories
that has been available to mental health professionals for some time, it pre-
dates the accusations of sexual abuse in custody/visitation disputes that be-
came vogue in the early 1980's and continue to this day.  This inventory, de-
signed to determine child abuse potential, is susceptible to "scorer error",
but what is more important and ironic is that almost half of the statements 
n
the questionnaire apply to persons falsely accused of child abuse. An 
alleged
perpetrator" who takes this inventory may very well get in a no-win, damned 
f
you do, damned if you don't situation.
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