Grandparents - There are times when the grandparents
become the alienators.
Over the past several years, an increasing number of fathers have
become alienators and mothers are finding themselves the target parents.
A child with PAS
becomes an alienator in their own right, independently creating their own scenarios of how horrible the target parent is.
Not exact matches
Others retain their enthusiasm by
becoming ideologues, and taking only cases in which they will not encounter the conflicts (e.g. overwhelmingly their clients raise claims that the other parent is an
alienator.)
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).
They
become reporters, spies and
alienators themselves.