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Author Archives: Dr. Richard A. Warshak
State of Plutoverse – 2011
In case you wondered, other projects have pushed my annual review of the year to the side for a couple of months. File this column under: better late than never. Pluto Transforms Lives Across Six Continents 2011 saw the spread … Continue reading
Posted in child custody litigation, notes to readers, Overcoming parental alienation, parental alienation/parental alienation syndrome
Tagged divorce, divorce poison, high conflict divorce, parental alienation, parental alienation intervention, parental alienation syndrome, treatment for parental alienation, Warshak, Welcome Back Pluto
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Parenting by the Clock: Is It Time to Replace the Best-Interest-of-the-Child Standard? With What?
At the end of a child custody trial, courts base decisions on the best interest of the child. Critics of this standard regard it as too subjective and have proposed various alternatives such as the primary parent presumption and a … Continue reading
Posted in child custody litigation
Tagged child custody, family law, high conflict divorce, Warshak
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Six Tips to Give Children Better Holidays
Holidays can be times of great joy when families build shared positive memories. Holidays can also be times of great stress, blues, and depression. When parents live apart from each other, they need to make a special effort to work … Continue reading
Shaking the Holiday Blues Away
The winter holidays are fast approaching. Everyone seems happy and excited except you. Intense sadness or loneliness cloud any hope of enjoyment. To make matters worse, you reproach yourself for being unable to share the holiday spirit. If you see … Continue reading
Posted in alienated parents/rejected parents, general psychology and mental health, holidays
Tagged Christmas, family relationships, holiday blues, holidays Canada, preparing for the holiday season, Thanksgiving, Warshak
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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs: Think Different (unaired commercial) “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown … Continue reading
Divorce Poison (2nd ed) Now in iTunes and Kindle
The wait is over. Through some gap between my publisher and the Kindle folks, the downloadable edition of the revised edition of Divorce Poison never saw the light of digital day in 2010. Last April, when a reader expressed her … Continue reading
Posted in alienated parents/rejected parents, Overcoming parental alienation, parental alienation/parental alienation syndrome, understanding parental alienation
Tagged divorce poison, parental alienation, parental alienation syndrome, treatment for parental alienation, Warshak
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College Helps Renew Parent-Child Ties
Some time during my first semester in the men’s dormitory at Cornell (in those days co-ed dorms were mere fantasies), the guys on the floor began talking about their parents. The more we talked, the more we came to value … Continue reading
Steve Jobs Inspired By Atlas Shrugged
In April, when the film version of Atlas Shrugged: Part One was released, I posted a blog about Ayn Rand’s novel on The Huffington Post. I mentioned that many celebrities are Rand fans. (Click here for a list of celebrities.) … Continue reading
Posted in book reviews
Tagged Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Steve Jobs, Warshak
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Divorce Court: Mopping Up the Mess
Most people never have their day in court. They have no need. They commit no crimes. They avoid lawsuits. And they never testify at a trial. Most of us never even serve on a jury, despite being summoned every few … Continue reading
Father’s Day Message to Rejected Fathers
I set out to write this message for rejected fathers and quickly realized that I wanted to tell them the same things I told rejected mothers on Mother’s Day. So here is the prior blogpost, intact, except that Father replaces … Continue reading