While parental alienation is most usually discussed as a cause of adult child-parent estrangement, I think it's more productive and accurate to see it as a form of verbal abuse and a manipulative ...

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When parents fight over their children, everyone loses. Source: (c) Leaf/Fotosearch Instead of just undoing the harm done downstream from a polluted river, best to halt the dumping of toxic pollutants ...

The public often assumes that in 2023, after 24 seasons of "Law & Order: SVU," there is a general understanding of domestic violence and that victims of domestic violence are well protected by the ...

How can I recognize if my co-parent will engage in Parental Alienation? A parent who exhibits signs of a personality disorder such as extreme narcissism, borderline personality disorder, and ...

Parental alienation has become a ‘weapon and part of a perpetrators playbook used to undermine domestic abuse’, award-winning ...

Charlie Burrell completed an extraordinary challenge, riding 101 miles in 12 hours on a penny farthing bicycle to raise ...

According to a new study, parental alienating behaviors and coercively controlling abuse are similar, and should be treated similarly in family court proceedings. Abusive intimate relationships are ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Barbara Bradley Hagerty, a contributor for The Atlantic, about parental alienation, which can happen when one parent uses a child to get back at the other parent.