While lawyers might have loved the theory, it did raise lots of other problems. Men's rights groups liked it because the majority of parents perpetrating Parental Alienation Syndrome were said to be women, and because Gardner's work seemed to give them the credible scientific backing that would turn the tide in courts they perceived to be biased in favour of women. Women's groups hated it as a sexist and unscientific piece of claptrap that was often used to sidestep serious problems concerns about family violence and poor parenting skills. The courts didn't like it because implementing Gardner's recommendations would require them to place the child in the home of the "hated" parent, which was plainly the last thing the alienated child wanted.