Fathers & Families helped put together a coalition of about nine organizations to protest PBS’s heinous documentary, “Breaking the Silence: Children’s Stories.” This film is a broadside torpedo aimed at fathers. If you are not aware of this controversy, who the nine organizations are, and why you must send a protest email today, please click on the link below to get the facts.

The result of our campaign has been impressive, generating at least 4,000 emails, letters and calls to PBS. Op-Ed pieces attacking the film have appeared in several newspapers. The Houston PBS affiliate aired a show with our point of view. Two or three PBS affiliates are reputed to have pulled the show. The American Psychological Association has repudiated the views attributed to it in the show. There have been meetings with congressmen about the show. There have been meetings with the heads of several PBS affiliate stations. Various individuals with personal connections to PBS officials, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the foundation that funded this movie are using private contacts to protest it. There are confidential indications of serious concern at PBS.

The film portrays Sadia Loeliger as a heroic mother who defended her daughter from her bestial father, Dr. Scott Loeliger. But Glenn Sacks has published extensive documentation, available at the link below, that Sadia beat, burned and terrorized her children. The accusations came from the daughter herself, a babysitter, a niece, and several mental health professionals.

Even more incredibly, Scott Loeliger and his attorney warned the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the film’s producers of these facts, yet they proceeded to air the film anyway.

These bombshell documents dramatically undermine the credibility of this film. In my view, they also set the stage for a successful libel suit, since Dr. Loeliger is portrayed in the film as a batterer.