About a third of parents with estranged adult children claim the breakdown in their family’s relationship stemmed from advice ...

Elliot J. Wiener of Phillips Nizer and Bernice H. Schaul, a clinical psychologist, highlight the psychological issues involved in alienation, the remedies recommended by the mental health community, ...

Parental alienation is when a child strongly aligns with one parent (the alienating parent) and rejects the other parent (the target parent) for unwarranted reasons. In practice, the alienating parent ...

People who were raised by emotionally abusive parents are often faced with heart-wrenching decisions once they reach adulthood. Do they continue to put their livelihood at risk by staying in touch ...

Researchers from Manchester and Canada have shown that the claim by the authors of a study published earlier this year that ...

What children of divorce most want and need is to maintain healthy and strong relationships with both of their parents, and to be shielded from their parents' conflicts. Some parents, however, in an ...

When Laura Wellington's daughter chose estrangement in June 2024, Wellington used social media as an outlet for her grief and began sharing her story on TikTok, where she’s known as “Doormat Mom.” She ...

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 ...

Last May, the World Health Organisation officially recognised parental alienation syndrome for the first time. Parental alienation is the ability of parents to persuade a child to reject his or her ...