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 Jenkins [...]

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 father [...]

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. [...]

William Eddy, the author of: Splitting: Protecting Yourself When Divorcing a Borderline or Narcissist - has introduced an innovative new program in San Diego to help people with a high conflict partner better resolve issues involving child custody and other issues.
The program, called New Ways for Families, is a structured program that helps reduce the [...]

There is much debate as to whether or not “parental alienation“ rises to the level of a definable mental illness often referred to as “parental alienation syndrome.”  At Mr. Custody Coach, we don’t much care about that part of the argument.  Reasonably intelligent individuals are aware that people of all ages can be taught to [...]

Charles Ray Spencer, once a police officer in Vancouver, British Columbia, was incarcerated for 20-years after a conviction for molesting his two children.  Now, his son and daughter have announced that the molestation never happened and it was a product of police coercion and parental alienation on the part of their mother.
On Friday, July 10th, [...]

This case has a number of hallmarks we see when mothers become gatekeepers and use the system to alienate and keep children away from their fathers. Unfortunately, in this instance, when the Mother lost custody temporarily, she decided to take the kids from their father permanently.
According to the story, Amanda Jo Stott-Smith, first agreed to [...]