Daddy, Tell Me A Bedtime Story
Mom instilled a love of music in me at an early age. When I was three years old, she gave me a small record player with a couple of small…
-
-
Tips For Children Who Are Alienated or At Risk for Alienation
Children who feel pressured by a parent to disrespect and reject their other parent risk losing a healthy connection to both their parents. This is true whether the pressure is…
-
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…
-
Why Children Take Sides Against a Parent
At times parents find it difficult to show patience with alienated children who act disrespectfully. To respond sensitively, parents and professionals need to understand why alienated children act as they…
-
Power To Poison: A Commonsense View of Parental Alienation
Psychologists have known for decades that children’s thoughts and feelings can be manipulated by adults, including their parents. See Divorce Poison for two classic studies. But those who oppose the…
-
Parental Alienation’s Tragic Legacy of Shame, Guilt, & Remorse
A woman lamented to advice columnist extraordinaire, Carolyn Hax: “I’m so ashamed. I don’t even know how to make it up to my mom, who through all of this always…
-
Panel: How Courts Should Handle Parental Alienation Cases
In late 2020, Ashish Joshi, the editor of Litigation—the American Bar Association’s preeminent journal in the field of trial practice—convened a panel to discuss how courts handle parental alienation issues. I…
-
Removal from an Alienating Parent Is Not A “Last Resort”
Finally, a court got this right. Actually, two courts, both in the U.K. Some law professors and mental health professionals assert that removing an alienated child from the custody of…
-
Resist and Refuse — Only Part of the Problem
Be on the lookout for a new trend in parental alienation scholarship. Facing opposition to the term “parental alienation,” professionals now refer to “resist-refuse dynamics” and “parent–child contact problems.” Well…
-
Shaking the Holiday Blues Away
The holiday season is here. 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…