O H M Y G O D !!!!!!!! I grew up in a physically and verbally abusive home, and I was shaking after I listened to this. There is NO excuse for this type of verbal abuse...NONE!!! People....please don't minimize this with thoughts of, "no parent is perfect", "we all lose it with our kids on occassion". SORRY!! Not trying to be self-righteous here, but I would NEVER, EVER speak such demeaning and wounding words to my children, under ANY condition!!! Kim Basinger may not be perfect either, but until someone can present the tapes of her abusive actions toward her daughter, I'd say she appears to be the more fit parent. I will NEVER again watch a television program or movie with Alec Baldwin in it. Alec....it's time to give your brother a call and listen to what he has to say about the power of Jesus Christ to change lives. I believe even someone like you can have his heart changed.

I also come from a physically and verbally abusive home and I agree 100% with everything you have stated. Most parents do have times when the pressure is so heavy and we say or do something we regret almost instantly. I also will not watch a television movie nor a film that has Alec Baldwin involved.

I believe that anytime you have a BITTER custody dispute, you have abuse in the family. If you have a mother trying to protect her child/children, the man will say it is to be malicious, to cover his own actions. I'm saying most cases, not all. I'm not saying there are never any women but I believe they are the small minority. The courts have allowed this to happen. Custody should be given to the primary caregiver of the child, no matter whether they are man or woman. And visitation should not be set up like prison schedules. It's ridiculous. The primary caregiver should be allowed to take care of their child. When you love a child, you do what is best for that child.

Alec....it's time to give your brother a call and listen to what he has to say about the power of Jesus Christ to change lives. I believe even someone like you can have his heart changed. NO jesus doesn't help either, just another crutch. I know that for a fact. My ex is a "devote" fundie and the verbal abuse is worse than ever toward our daughter.

Don't blame Jesus. The power from Him is there -- not everyone who claims (or tries) to be a Christian knows or practices the lifechanging power of it.

Where was your "god" when my ex was beating our daughter, and how is the "power from him in there" when my ex and his attorney lied to the judge. My ex now teaches sunday school, if they only knew what he really was. That is why Bassinger did what she did, to get a madman out in the open. She and her daughter knew exactly what they were doing!

Where was my God?  I asked that question about 5 years ago, myself.  He was there holding me.  He was there keeping it from getting worse than it was.  He was there weeping and grieving over what my father was doing to me.  God has given mankind a free will, which means that although He has the power to stop every evil act, He doesn't.  But, I do believe that He can turn turn the ugliest things into something beautiful, if we allow Him to.  He's done it for me.  He's not to blame...sinful man/woman is. 

I lived with a mentally and verbally abusive X husband, To this day my children still have problems with him and they are older and still in counseling because of his "unhealthy behavior."    Although Alec Baldwin has issues with his X wife, gives no reason to call his daughter names.  To use excuses as "I was mad at my X."  is just that. An excuse to cover a behavior that is well alive inside himself.  Alec's need is to get professional help for HIM and his daughter after he has had some counseling himself.  Sometimes we look past the mirror image that we see because one may not want to acknowledge that ones self has problems.  And he is not looking at himself, but only his eyes are on his X and what "she is doing"  to him.    Does he hate his wife that much to not love his daughter the way he should~  Shame on the both of them for their placing this child in the middle of their squabbles.  Their daughter probably hates her life if one could really talk with her.  And this will have an impact on her for YEARS.

I haven't figured out how to reply to "ALL" yet so please bear with me and tell me how to do that so it doesn't look I'm picking on just one person, I want to pick on everyone at the same time I guess.

Now for the post, I was abused also, by my mother.  She never missed a day of church, belonged to all the right organizations, I'm sure you get the picture.  She was a holy terror.  I loved church, it was the only time all week I felt safe from her.  For 2 hours each week I could relax.  I get really angry when I hear women saying it is such a small number of women that abuse their children.  I have made it my business to watch as many divorces as I can.  Women are much more likely to use their children as weapons as men.  Men usually want to be just out of the women's life where women seem to want to punish the ex for things that happened years ago.  I think they just need to get over it.  If you want to use my sisters in law and sisters as a gauge we've had two broken arms 8 stitches, and 2 attempted suicides in the last 25 years.  All caused by the mothers either mentally abusing their kids or hitting them with phones.  Phones????? I have no idea why the phone seems to be the weapon of choice.  During this time period not one of the fathers in the households ever damaged their child.  For those of you that were abused, did your abuser ever try to stab their spouse, cut off your toes, run over you with their car, whip you until you had bruises from your shoulders to your knees because you father wouldn't beat someone up for them.  I could write a book on what my mother did.  Any of you have a dead brother that for some reason when into convulsions.  I'll put my mother up against your fathers any day. 

The courts need to get their head out of the sand and do something about parents that play games with their kids.  Until mothers and fathers demand better investigations into treatment of children of divorce this is the mess we are going to have.  Sit down and write a letter to your senators, demand this madness stop,  the fathers aren't always to blame.  Until you are willing to accept that fact you are just as guilty as anyone.  Do what is best for the children not your particular sex.

While I"m on a role here, I think the courts need to have investigative abilities.  Don't believe anything a lawyer tells you, they get into court and lie just like everyone else.  Investigate everything, make the parents pay for it.  If it cost them money and if they are caught lying  make them pay dearly.

Sorry buy I don't give a roaches egg sack about you and your divorce problems.   Don't get married and have children, and then get a divorce if you don't want either party to go to jail.  Because with the high unemployment rate, somebody is not going to be able make court mandated Alimony and Child Support payments.  The USA system is indeed rule and insensitive to it's marriage citizens seeking a painful divorce.   But What the Hell does this have to do with movies and entertainment? 

Can you sat nacisstic sociopath. Psycho!