I hope all alienated children see the light and see
the abusive alienating parent for what they really are.
Cold, rejecting, or
abusive alienating parents of either gender — in intact or divorced families — alienating the children from the targeted parent.
Not exact matches
However, since the children are still emotionally connected even to
abusive parents, this
abusive parent manipulates this connection with the children to begin the actual process of alienating them from the other parent, the one accused of being an Alienating P
parent manipulates this connection with the children to begin the actual process of
alienating them from the other parent, the one accused of being an Alienati
alienating them from the other
parent, the one accused of being an Alienating P
parent, the one accused of being an
AlienatingAlienating ParentParent.
If not helped or reversed these children are set up to repeat the pattern, be the victim (as they have been to the
alienating parent) AND the
abusive perpetrator (as they have been to the targeted
parent) and are prone to deep depression from the sadness they deeply harbor for abandoning the targeted
parent and for abandoning their own sense of themselves; they become an empty shell.
[4] In general, courts have straddled this issue by rejecting PAS as a syndrome, but frequently finding that one
parent has engaged in
alienating behavior in some cases or that the other
parent engaged in
abusive behavior or poor
parenting in others.
Once these
abusive parents have their children more in their control that they ever had before, these children become extremely vulnerable to becoming quickly
alienated from the
parent whom they used to look to for protection.
While it is clear that many
parents engage in knowingly
alienating behavior some of the time, and other
parents are
abusive, it appears to be these unconscious behaviors and attachment difficulties which drive this desperate behavior.
As we see an increased tendency for truly
abusive parents to misuse the diagnosis of PA to explain why their children may not be close to them, or may be reticent to visit with them after marital separation, it perhaps should not be surprising to then see that when these
parents are successful in mis - portraying the other
parent as being an Alienating Parent, that they themselves then tend to become the true Alienating P
parent as being an
Alienating Parent, that they themselves then tend to become the true Alienating P
Parent, that they themselves then tend to become the true
Alienating ParentParent.
[3] However, it is interesting to note that most children are not
alienated or resistant to contact with an
abusive parent, even though they may have mixed feelings.
First, the strategies that the
alienating parents used to effectuate the alienation are emotionally
abusive in and of themselves.
It's emotionally and psychogically
abusive to children to keep them from the other
parent and to distort the reality about the
alienated parent with lies and bad mouthing.
When one looks at the checklists of what a parental alienator allegedly does, it is the
alienated parent in my case who does the things such as bad mouth me, tell inappropriate things to the children, is verbally
abusive to me, etc?
Dr. Warshak sheds light that
alienated parents, similar to survivors of domestic violence, may have married a person that was
abusive.