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Category Archives: alienated parents/rejected parents
Reaching Out to Young Adults After Years of Estrangement
A therapist’s advice column instructed alienated parents to take the type of proactive stance that I advocate in Divorce Poison to prevent and overcome parental alienation, and concluded by urging rejecting parents to persist in efforts to resolve the problem … Continue reading
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Tagged divorce, divorce poison, estranged relationships, high conflict divorce, interference with custodial access, parental alienation, parental alienation syndrome, Warshak
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Alienated Trekkies: Star Trek Fans Who Hate (Or Are On Their Way To Hating) Their Parents
Resources for parents whose children are Star Trek fans and are alienated or at risk for becoming alienated from a parent. Stories, fairy tales, and fables are the age-old ways of communicating life’s important lessons to children. Movies and television … Continue reading
Posted in alienated parents/rejected parents, cultural references to parental alienation, Overcoming parental alienation, parental alienation/parental alienation syndrome, TV views
Tagged divorce poison, high conflict divorce, parental alienation, parental alienation intervention, parental alienation syndrome, Star Trek, treatment for parental alienation, Warshak
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Managing Severe Cases of Parental Alienation
I am pleased to announce my new article: Managing Severe Cases of Parental Alienation. Published by the State Bar of Texas, it includes never-before-published material previously available only through my trial testimony and consultation. Some of the highlights: • 3 … Continue reading
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Tagged child custody, divorce, divorce poison, high conflict divorce, parental alienation, parental alienation intervention, parental alienation syndrome, treatment for parental alienation, Warshak
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State of Plutoverse – 2012
2012 was both an interesting and personally difficult year for me. A serious illness in my family placed severe limitations on the time I could devote to my writing and research. As a result, Plutoverse saw few new posts, and … Continue reading
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
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Tagged Christmas, family relationships, holiday blues, holidays Canada, preparing for the holiday season, Thanksgiving, Warshak
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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
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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
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