... After concluding his investigation, the evaluator found that mother had a «seriously impaired capacity for reality testing» and met the diagnostic criteria for a «Delusional Disorder
of a persecutory (nonbizarre) type»; that the two older
children had become enmeshed in mother's battle against father; that the
children were not credible reporters because they were colluding with mother to generate false allegations against father; and that the extent
of mother's enmeshment and role reversal with the two older
children constituted a form
of emotional child abuse.