Not exact matches
Parental Alienation is being defined
as the impact that
parents have on their
children by
alienating them
from the
other parent.
For example, in a survey of
parents who are targets of alienation, Baker and Darnell4 found that targeted
parents reported that alienators interfered with
parenting time (e.g., scheduled appointments or frequently called during the
other parent's
parenting time), interfered with contact with the
children (e.g., intercepted phone messages or email), interfered with symbolic contact like gift giving (e.g., threw away gifts or sent them back), did not inform them about important information (e.g., school activities, doctor appointments), threatened to take
children away
from the them, and formed unhealthy alliances with the
children such
as having had their
children spy and report back information to the
alienating parent, or sending cell phones with
children to call the
alienating parent from the target
parent's home.
On the
other hand, if you are filing for sole custody because you plan to
alienate your
child from her
other parent and the court picks up on this, it will likely see your actions
as an abuse of the custody process and not award you sole custody.
Any attempt at
alienating the
children from the
other parent should be seen
as a direct and willful violation of one of the prime duties of parenthood.
Whether one
parent is
alienating a
child from the
other is an important factor to be considered in change of custody cases for, just
as the chancellor noted below, a caring relationship with both
parents is essential to a healthy upbringing.
Attempts to
alienate the
child can be done in many different ways:
from moving far enough away (though legal) to make it terribly inconvenient for the
parent who may not have physical custody, to making overt / covert statements (better known
as «bad - mouthing») about the
other parent.
Parental Alienation is defined
as: the vilification of one
parent by the
other — with the intent of
alienating a
child from the
other parent.
Minimizing the DV or
child abuse allegations, the family dynamic proponents are likely to blame mothers for exaggerating their abuse allegations, not emphasize the anger that victims feel (indeed, they treat it
as a weakness and possibly an indication of instability and poor
parenting), and assume that mothers raise abuse allegations to
alienate their
children from their
other parent.