A Review Series of Anonymous Tip, by Michael Farris<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\nPp. 99-105<\/em><\/p>\nGwen got off work at three and scrambled to get home, change clothes and get down to the Fifth Avenue Medical Building to Dr. McGuire\u2019s office by five. Her friend, Bonnie, had agreed to switch shifts for the day. Just before she was ready to leave, her phone rang.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It was Peter, of course. He lets her know that the judge has given permission for Casey to be seen by Dr. Schram, the psychologist Peter picked out, and that the appointment has been scheduled for Friday at 10:00. Farris tells us that Gwen was \u201cstill not terribly pleased with putting her little girl through so many exams,\u201d and then Farris gives us this dialogue:<\/p>\n
Peter continued, \u201cAnd you get to take her to the exam. But you have to be escorted.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy do I have to be escorted?\u201d Gwen demanded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I feel like at this point my response would be more along the lines of an excited \u201cReally?! You mean I\u2019ll get to see her?\u201d but hey, I\u2019m not Gwen.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe prosecutor was afraid that you would run away with her,\u201d Peter replied.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not something I haven\u2019t thought about, but I would never do it\u2014at least I would probably never do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t tell me things like that,\u201d Peter replied.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho\u2019s the escort, one of the witches?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, just a friendly ghost,\u201d Peter countered with a laugh. \u201cIt\u2019s me. The judge was in a hurry and I didn\u2019t want to get embroiled in a big argument with the prosecutor on every little detail, so I quickly volunteered since I knew the judge would trust me to guarantee that you wouldn\u2019t run with Casey. I promised him that either I or one of my staff would stay with you the whole time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Honestly, I\u2019m still confused as to why Gwen is taking Casey to the psychologist at all. Casey\u2019s foster mother already took her to see the psychologist Donna picked out, and I\u2019m not sure why the same thing wouldn\u2019t happen here as well. I\u2019m also not sure whether it\u2019s realistic that a judge would trust a lawyer to escort his client to something like this, although I suppose it is true that Peter would lose his career if he helped Gwen run. Regardless, we get to see once again that Gwen really and truly is considering taking Casey and running\u2014and that she\u2019s still calling Donna and Rita witches.<\/p>\n
\u201cOk, OK,\u201d Gwen replied, finally understanding that she was going to spend a few precious moments with her daughter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I suppose it simply took some time to sink in?<\/p>\n
Anyway, Peter arranges for Gwen to meet him at his office at 9:15 and then Gwen asks if they can do lunch after the appointment, but Peter says no, they have to get Casey back to the foster home right away.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is so unreal! I can\u2019t take my own daughter to McDonald\u2019s without upsetting some judge. I can\u2019t drive her alone! I can\u2019t see her alone! Ooh, it makes me mad!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Gwen\u2019s not happy, not happy at all, but Peter tells her he thinks they\u2019re going to win the hearing on Tuesday, so it\u2019s only for a few more days. He says he\u2019s excited about what he learned when talking to the police officer, and that he learned something he thinks will \u201creally help us on Tuesday,\u201d but when Gwen asks what he learned he tells her \u201cit will take too long to explain\u201d and shoos her off to her appointment with Dr. McGuire. The jury is out on whether Peter will explain his finding to Gwen later or leave her in the dark.<\/p>\n
As she sat in the waiting room, Gwen couldn\u2019t help thinking that her Casey doll had sat in these chairs waiting for her turn with Dr. Randall McGuire. She would see her tomorrow. And hold her. And kiss her. And never let her go. Thoughts of running away crowded her mind as she contemplated the fact that she would have to turn Casey back over to the foster parents sometime before noon. Her daydream became more vivid as she imagined Peter, Casey, and herself driving in that white Explorer north for a couple of hours and escaping over the Canadian border. The border guards would just think that we were a typical happy family, Gwen thought, She came back to reality quickly, knowing that this semi-stranger would never do such a thing. And when it came right down to it, she didn\u2019t think she would do it either\u2014even on her own. But she was beginning to have doubts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Gwen has now been without Casey for two days. You know what? I once went to a conference that involved me being away from my two children for nine days, and I survived. Although, that really is unfair of me, because I chose to go on that trip, and I get that being forcibly prevented from seeing your child would feel worse than voluntarily being away from your child. Still, Gwen\u2019s scheming of ways to take Casey and run over a week-long separation seems a bit over the top.<\/p>\n
Anyway, Dr. McGuire\u2019s secretary calls for Gwen\u2014\u201cMrs. Landis\u201d\u2014and she heads in to see him. This is, as you may remember, the psychologist who has been bribed by child protective services to give a bad report about Gwen.<\/p>\n
McGuire was a sharp dresser in his late forties. Double-breasted blue blazer, windowpane pants, and a bold yellow tie with geometric patterns. His hair was stylishly long, greying, and was tightly held in place with substantial quantities of mousse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I\u2019m going to skip the discussion of the room\u2019s layout\u2014a blue-green and rose decorating scheme with abstract art on the walls\u2014and summarize the conversation rather than quoting it at length. McGuire\u2019s interview with Gwen takes up a full three pages, which is perhaps surprising given that his interview with Casey took up one very short paragraph.<\/p>\n
Farris tells us that Dr. McGuire had a \u201cdisarming charm\u201d that quickly put Gwen at ease. To be specific, he told Gwen that \u201cthe court system may be adversarial, but I\u2019m not\u201d and that he was just \u201chere to ask some questions\u201d and \u201cwrite a report.\u201d Perhaps if Peter had explained to Gwen\u00a0why<\/em> they needed the second psychologist, she would have been a bit more wary, but no, that would be asking too much!<\/p>\nGwen tells Dr. McGuire that she\u2019s twenty-nine, that she works in surgery, and that she has lived in Spokane her entire life. \u201cI grew up near North Central High School through most of my childhood, but my family moved to the South Hill when I was in ninth grade,\u201d she explains. \u201cI graduated from Lewis & Clark High School.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gwen goes on to say that she has two older sisters, which is surprising, frankly, because the book has at this point only mentioned one sister, and then only in Gwen\u2019s daydreams about running. She tells Dr. McGuire that she and her siblings are \u201cvery close,\u201d in the present tense, which is even more surprising given that you would expect someone who is \u201cvery close\u201d to her sisters to call them on the phone and tell them about what she\u2019s going through, but she does not appear to have done so. Frankly, if it weren\u2019t for this one mention and that one musing about running to her sister\u2019s house after absconding with Casey, I would have put money on Gwen being an only child based on Farris\u2019s portrayal.<\/p>\n
Anyway, Gwen tells McGuire that she had a \u201cvery happy\u201d childhood, and when he asks if she was abused as a child, she tells him that she was not, and that her parents \u201cwere very good to me.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s wonderful,\u201d McGuire responds. Farris tells us hat McGuire totally disarmed Gwen. \u201cIf I ever have a problem maybe I\u2019ll come see this guy,\u201d Gwen muses.<\/p>\n
When McGuire asks about her divorce, Gwen\u2019s tone changes. McGuire asks if the way Gordon treated her caused her \u201cany bitterness\u201d toward him, and Gwen responds in the affirmative. \u201cAt times are these feelings of bitterness pretty strong, like when you might be feeling lonely, or discouraged, or kind of abandoned?\u201d McGuire asks. Gwen again responds in the affirmative\u2014\u201cI think that\u2019s right\u201d\u2014and Farris tells us that she was appreciative of how \u201csympathetic\u201d McGuire was to her situation.<\/p>\n
Next McGuire asks Gwen about the way she disciplines Casey.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, basically I try to train Casey the way my parents trained me. I try my best to explain to her what the rules are and what I expect her to do. If she breaks a rule once, I sit down and explain it to her again to make sure she understands. But if she violates my standards again, I take disciplinary action after sitting her down and explaining that such behavior is simply not allowed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSeems pretty thorough. What kind of discipline do you administer?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt depends on what she did wrong. Normally, I try to match the discipline to the behavior. If she makes a mess, I make her clean up the mess in question, plus do one or two other cleaning activities. Sometimes, I make her go to her room. I\u2019ll take away dessert for one or two days. Just a variety of things.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd what about spanking?\u201d the psychologist asked, still looking and writing on his pad.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do spank Casey. Basically in situations where I don\u2019t think other measures will work well. For flagrant\u00a0disobedience, I will spank her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI use a wooden spoon. I don\u2019t want her to associate my hand with pain.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow many strokes?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUsually one. Sometimes two. Never more than three.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWere you spanked as a child?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, and I think I turned out pretty good, don\u2019t you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, it would seem so, Mrs. Landis, it would seem so,\u201d McGuire said with a friendly laugh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Gwen\u2019s parenting sounds so punitive. I mean when Casey makes a mess, she doesn\u2019t just have to clean it up, she also has to do additional<\/em> chores. That\u2019s going beyond natural consequences in order to punish. Further, some\u00a0readers have pointed out that a study that I wrote about months ago found that parents vastly underestimate the amount that they spank, including both frequency and severity. This may be Gwen\u2019s perception of how she parents, but has she ever thought to consider Casey\u2019s?<\/p>\nRegardless, Gwen\u2019s description of her discipline methods falls fully on the sunny side of the law. Hitting a child with a wooden spoon is perfectly legal. Her description also falls squarely within the popular conception of acceptable parenting, at least for the 1990s, which is what Farris is banking on to garner sympathy from his readers.<\/p>\n
McGuire has Gwen take an MMPI, which he describes as \u201can assessment tool\u201d and \u201ca standard personality inventory.\u201d Gwen finishes in thirty minutes and heads home, thinking to herself that everything was going so well they would surely win on Tuesday. After she left, McGuire \u201cflipped on his\u00a0notebook computer\u201d to write his report, starting with the conclusion:<\/p>\n
Gwen Landis is not a child abuser by choice. She is a victim. A victim of parents who exercised the sam form of corporal punishment she has now inflicted on her child. A victim of a divorce where she experiences understandable feelings of bitterness because of a husband who has abandoned her and her child. At times these feelings of bitterness are overwhelming. One can express great sympathy for Gwen Landis considering all that she has been through in her life.<\/p>\n
But her victimization cannot shield us from the present realities. Her child cannot become yet another victim through this cycle of abuse, bitterness, and abandonment. We have to break that cycle.<\/p>\n
The best course of action to break this cycle in the life of Gwen and Casey is to keep the child in foster care for up to six months. During this period of time a course of intensive psychological counseling is likely to produce dramatically improved understanding by Gwen of her need to break the cycles of victimization. In the end, we can reunite this family with a wholeness which has been missing perhaps for generations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And then there\u2019s this:<\/p>\n
\u201cA masterpiece,\u201d McGuire said aloud when he finished. \u201cA bloomin\u2019 masterpiece. They underpaid me for this one,\u201d he cackled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I\u2019m having trouble getting past how unrealistic I find Dr. McGuire, but I\u2019ll try, because there are some points here that really need to be made.<\/p>\n
On the back of the book, Farris wrote this:<\/p>\n
And the most shocking part of all is, it really could happen to anyone!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If Farris wanted to present this story that could happen \u201cto anyone,\u201d he would have been better off leaving out the bribery and over-the-top corruption. He could have made this book much more powerful by focusing on the ways good intentions held by good people can go wrong. Or he could have had the psychologist object to Gwen\u2019s\u00a0spanking and parenting patterns, but without the bribery. But a cackling psychologist who takes bribes? That feels much more like the subject of a book than the subject of real life.<\/p>\n
Still, there is one real-life fear that Farris does tap into in this section, and probably successfully\u2014the concern that psychologists can read anything they want into what someone tells them, and effortlessly spin an evaluation of this sort. I mean, I<\/em>\u00a0understand\u00a0that there are standards for how psychologists practice, but I feel like there is a popular fear\u2014especially among evangelicals\u2014that psychology is more hot air than cold stone, and that is what Farris is tapping into here. It didn\u2019t matter what Gwen said, he suggests, Dr. McGuire could spin it however he wanted.<\/p>\nOf course, the addition of the bribe lessens the impact, because McGuire goes into the interview already intending to spin it. Perhaps it would have felt more realistic and less frightening if Dr. McGuire had had some sort of underlying bias against Gwen, perhaps because of her religion or her occupation, etc.? I\u2019m not sure.<\/p>\n
Regardless, with this episode, we have reached the end of Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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