Parental alienation occurs when a child refuses to have a relationship with a parent due to manipulation, such as the conveying of exaggerated or false information, by the other parent. The situation ...

The American Psychiatric Association has a hot potato on its hands as it updates its catalog of mental disorders — whether to include parental alienation, a disputed term conveying how a child's ...

Parental alienation has become the nuclear weapon of custody battles. Accuse your ex of alienating your children, and you might win full custody. Get caught actually alienating, and you could lose ...

From time to time, one parent undermining the other parent's relationship with their children is a prevailing factor in custody cases. The undermining by one parent of the other parent's relationship ...

Parental alienation has become a ‘weapon and part of a perpetrators playbook used to undermine domestic abuse’, award-winning family court barrister Charlotte Proudman has told the Irish Mail on ...

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 ...

Alan D. Blotcky, Ph.D., is a clinical and forensic psychologist in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama. William Bernet, M.D., is Professor Emeritus for the Department of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt ...

I’m not a parent. It’s highly unlikely, given my age and goals in life, that I ever will be. But I fight for parents every day as a family law attorney. Usually the fights are over rather mundane ...

In his Matrimonial Practice column, Timothy M. Tippins writes: Judicial opinions abundant in facts and rich in thoughtful analysis are as rare as a white peacock. Hon. Richard A. Dollinger has ...