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PARENTAL ALIENATION SOLUTIONS
Parental alienation often occurs when the alienating parent works to exclude the other parent from the children’s lives. The alienating parent is often driven by his or her resentful personal feelings about the other parent. They desire to punish the other parent. Mental health issues and personality disorders are often involved in severe alienation cases.
In most alienation cases, the alienating parent makes disparaging, unfounded comments about the other parent that are intended to destroy any relationship the children may have with the other parent. Alienating parents fail to encourage a positive relationship between their children and the other parent, withhold access to the child, sow fear, and work to brainwash the children into unjustifiably rejecting the other parent.
The dark side of parental alienation campaigns is that they can work. In severe cases, children who have been manipulated and lied to will refuse visitation or contact with the target parent. They children will express only negative feelings about the targeted parent. How does it work? The children may come to believe the negative comments and lies they hear about the other parent or they are afraid to act against the alienating parent for fear of rejection or punishment. Sometimes, the children enjoy the lavish attention they receive for going along with the alienating parent and the child and parent form an emotional bond around rejecting the other parent.
Parental alienation is very different from estrangement, where a child decides that he or she does not want contact with a parent who is physically, emotionally, or sexually abusive. Another dark side of parental alienation is the high prevalence of false allegations of alienation among abusive and neglectful parents. Such parents refuse to own or acknowledge how their own actions or inactions damaged their own relationships with their children. Instead of taking responsibility for their own actions, they blame the other parent and falsely accuse the other parent of alienation.
In other cases, a malicious parent will raise the accusation of parental alienation agains the other parent for no other reason that to be abusive toward the other parent and to try to manipulate the court system by using such an inflamatory term.
If you believe you are being alienated from your children or your relationship with your children is being negatively impacted by the other parent, we’re here to help. There are resources available to help identify alienation and repair the parent-child relationship. Likewise, if you are being falsely accused of alienation or find yourself on the defensive side of false allegations, we’re here to help.
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