Alienated? Parent and child image via www.shutterstock.com. Parental alienation – defined as when one parent’s relationship with his or her child is harmed by the other parent – can have devastating ...

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Have your children turned against you? Do they resist spending time with you? Have they joined with your ex in treating you with contempt? If so, they may be suffering from parental alienation. In ...

Fears an increase in allegations, particularly against mothers, of deliberately alienating a child against the other parent in domestic abuse cases may put victims at further risk The UN special ...

Rosanna Hounslow, a Partner at Stowe Family Law, shares her thoughts on parental alienation, the lack of a legal definition, its implications for the family members involved when allegations of ...

Two new articles—“Parental Alienating Behaviors: An Unacknowledged Form of Family Violence” (Harman, Kruk, & Hines, 2018), appearing in Psychological Bulletin, and “Parental Alienation as a Form of ...

The children of divorcing or separating parents are often proverbially “caught in the middle.” What’s worse is when one parent tries to turn the child against the other parent, through bad-mouthing, ...