Parental alienation is victimizing the lives of countless good families—-parents and children—-all over the world with devastating repercussions. To the alienated parent, it can be a dizzying feeling of helplessness that grips you while frantically searching for answers to stop what is happening.
My ex-wife had a bad habit of neglecting to inform me when she would up and move my kids, at least four times they were uprooted. Having 50/50 custody it went as far as our young children keeping this vital information from me even on my custody week, a form of parental alienation.
During the school year we had an agreement that the kids would get on the school bus Monday morning to go to school and on the afternoon bus they would take that bus to their mother’s house. And vice-versa on my week.… Read the rest
Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) is a term used in child custody cases to describe one parent’s manipulation of a child to harm the other parent. It may involve rejecting (spurning), terrorizing, corrupting, denying essential stimulation, emotional responsiveness or availability, unreliable and inconsistent parenting, mental health, medical or educational neglect, degrating/devaluating the other parent, isolating, and exploiting the child. The alienator parent seeks to alienate the victims from other family members and social supports. There is a conscious or concerted effort to disrupt the child’s affectionate relationship with the other parent and co-opt all of the child’s affection on to oneself.… Read the rest
