As I mention in the Introduction to the revised edition of Divorce Poison, it has been so gratifying to hear from readers who find my work helpful in navigating a difficult passage in their life. I am grateful, too, that so many readers have taken the time to post reviews on Amazon.com. I am proud that Divorce Poison has the highest average rating of all the books on Amazon’s best-seller list in the category of Divorce.
On May 1, 2011, the one hundredth five-star review was left by an alienated mother. Such a milestone, which far outpaces any other book in Amazon’s Divorce category, helps raise awareness of this problem.
I have been keeping track of the reviews; I notice that, when it is clear that the review has been written by a mother or father, mothers outnumber fathers. Along with the many grandmothers, aunts, cousins, stepmothers, half-sisters, and stepsisters whose well-being has been derailed by the disruption of loving relationships, the number of women who have been moved enough to leave a positive comment about my book on Amazon supports my claim that the problem of parental alienation cuts across gender lines.
I hope that those who advocate for women’s interests will recognize the importance of drawing attention to the harmful impact of alienating behavior, regardless of what label they attach to the problem. The legitimate concern about parental alienation claims being used to discount the reality of other forms of child abuse need not blind us to the reality that many parents engage in behaviors that poison children’s love and respect for their other parent and needlessly deprive children of loving relationships.
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