PAS alienators lie about their brainwashing while empowering their children to behave irresponsibly toward the other parent.
The largest study confirming the preponderance of mothers as
PAS alienators during the 1980s was that of Clawar and Rivlin (1991).
Not exact matches
Most
PA cases, in my experience, involve an innocent targeted parent, and the pathological
alienator.
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PAS Children: What Hath
Alienators Wrought?
The result: the targeted parent gets reprimanded by the court, empowers the
alienator, and fuels the
PA fires further.
PAS involves a combination of a brainwashing by the
alienator parent and the child's own contributions to the vilification of the target parent.
In my experience, the time frame during which mothers were the primary
alienators was from the early 1980s (when the disorder first appeared) to the mid-to-late 1990s (when fathers became increasingly active as
PAS indoctrinators).
A child with
PAS becomes an
alienator in their own right, independently creating their own scenarios of how horrible the target parent is.
The
PAS diagnosis demands the identification of the specific
alienator.