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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 subtle or obvious, inadvertent or intentional. “Welcome Back, Pluto: Understanding, … Continue reading

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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 told me she still loved me, even with all the … Continue reading

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Removal from An Alienating Parent Not a “Last Resort”

“The court must be alert to early signs of alienation. . . . It is emphatically not necessary to wait for serious, worse still irreparable, harm to be done before appropriate action is taken.” Continue reading

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Do Nothin’ Til You Hear From Me

            What should you do if your child rejects you?             Ask a therapist this question before 2002 and the answer was probably, “Be patient. Your child will reach out within a couple of years.”             After my first book on parental alienation … Continue reading

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