Elliot J. Wiener of Phillips Nizer and Bernice H. Schaul, a clinical psychologist, highlight the psychological issues involved in alienation, the remedies recommended by the mental health community, ...

Parental alienation is when a child strongly aligns with one parent (the alienating parent) and rejects the other parent (the target parent) for unwarranted reasons. In practice, the alienating parent ...

As Labor Day approaches, I am struck by how hard it is to be a loving and involved parent to an alienated child. It is hard in at least four ways. The first is that the child and the favored parent ...

People who were raised by emotionally abusive parents are often faced with heart-wrenching decisions once they reach adulthood. Do they continue to put their livelihood at risk by staying in touch ...

Parental alienation is a situation where one parent systematically turns a child against the other parent. This can have devastating consequences for the child's emotional well-being, relationships, ...

Last May, the World Health Organisation officially recognised parental alienation syndrome for the first time. Parental alienation is the ability of parents to persuade a child to reject his or her ...

Parental alienation has become the nuclear weapon of custody battles. Accuse your ex of alienating your children, and you might win full custody. Get caught actually alienating, and you could lose ...

This next story is about what can happen when one parent in a family is so angry at the other that they deploy the kids as weapons. It's a phenomenon known as parental alienation. It is common, more ...