April 25th, 2011 was the 6th annual recognition by many states of Parental Alienation Awareness Day. It’s as good a time as any to share some helpful information to help you to counteract the effects of parental alienation that so frequently rears its ugly head during high conflict child custody proceedings. When parents split up, [...]
The courts are becoming increasingly aware of the prevalence of parental alienation behaviors on the part of misguided, vindictive, and high-conflict parents. Oftentimes, only one parent is engaging in parental alienation behaviors. However, it’s not unusual to see both parents using the children as the rope in their angry, emotional tug-of-war. There are numerous ways [...]
When your marital relationship ends, it doesn’t end with happy thoughts or feelings. Well, perhaps some, but that is not the direction we’re headed with this article. It may be a relief that you are out of a bad marriage, but it comes with the knowledge that your lifelong hopes, plans, and dreams with your [...]
One of the most frequent issues we deal with in high conflict divorce and custody situations is parental alienation. Parental alienation is when one parent attempts (and sometimes succeeds) to poison the minds and the feelings of the children against the other parent in order to win custody and/or destroy the relationship between the targeted [...]
When Dr. Richard Gardner, a psychiatrist, first coined the term “parental alienation” – it was met with confusion, disbelief, and questions. Even today, many people believe that a child cannot be turned against a parent. Though parents certainly hold a much higher place in the child’s mind, it only takes some though back to our [...]
As if there wasn’t enough to concern yourself with in the wake of a divorce and child custody process, you also need to remember that the little things you do or don’t do can have a significant impact. It can have a significant impact on your child custody arrangement. It can have a significant impact [...]
Parental alienation and custodial interference aren’t just for opposite-sex couples anymore. With many same-sex couples becoming parents through adoption and artificial insemination, a whole new world of parents are being introduced to the plight of same-sex couples: break-ups with partners, child custody fights, and all of the horror that comes with high-conflict family break-ups. Janet [...]
After what appears to be a severe case of parental alienation carried out during a parental kidnapping, mother Crystel A. Strelioff has been sentenced to 12-years. Before anyone can begin to celebrate what appears to be a fairly stiff sentence, in Illinois, the sentences for each charge (4 of them in total) run concurrently. Therefore, [...]
It would seem from a recent article from USA Today (online) that many experts are beginning to see the tragic consequences of parental alienation in children potentially as a mental illness. The article discusses one woman’s experience and a childhood lost due to her mother’s premeditated efforts to train her child, Anne, to hate her [...]
When parents engage in parental alienation and/or custodial interference, it can be very destructive to not only the targeted parent, but the children involved as well. Enforcement of parenting agreements and orders helps parents (in particular – non-custodial parents) who are denied access to the children by the high-conflict parent, get their parenting time restored. [...]
