• Knowing a child of this age
experiences loyalty conflicts, how does the parent assure the child of a loving relationship with the other parent?
Children are vulnerable to
experiencing loyalty conflicts and shouldn't be in the middle between their parents.
By Amy Baker (Ph.D.) and Paul Fine (LCSW) How you handle your emotions when your children are
experiencing loyalty conflicts is important.
Some children
experience loyalty conflicts and fear that becoming emotionally close to a stepparent implies betraying the nonresident biological parent.
Children are vulnerable to
experiencing loyalty conflicts and shouldn't be in the middle between their parents.
Their increasing ability to empathize makes them at special risk for
experiencing loyalty conflicts, putting themselves in the middle of parental conflict, or siding with one parent over the other.
However, they are vulnerable to
experiencing loyalty conflicts and shouldn't be in the middle between their parents.
The purpose of this article is to suggest sound practices about parental alienation (PA) and parental alienation syndrome (PAS) and to identify some key prevention and intervention issues so that mental health professionals who counsel children and families
experiencing loyalty conflicts or parental alienation tactics will be better prepared to help this highly vulnerable population.
Not exact matches
In the short term, they may
experience intense emotions and feel
conflicted loyalties.
Be they adorable 5 year olds or teenagers struggling to find their identity, any set - up in which loving Dad will be
experienced as a betrayal of Mom and loving Mom will cause pain to Dad sets up an intolerable
conflict of
loyalties for children who almost always love each parent deeply and desperately.
There is a whole host of difficult and
conflicting emotions that can be
experienced by siblings including but not limited to shame, confusion, embarrassment, guilt, compassion,
loyalty and of course love.
Fifteen percent agreed at least one parent «tried to turn me against the other parent» Adults with a history of childhood alienation
experiences had a significantly lower quality of life than adults who did not
experience parental alienation and
loyalty conflict (Bernet et al. 2015; Verrocchio & Baker 2015).
Results: About 80 % of the sample reported some exposure to parental alienating behaviors; about 65 — 70 % of the sample has perceived non-optimal parenting by mother and by father; individuals who
experienced affectionless control (low care and high overprotection) reported significantly higher exposure to parental
loyalty conflict behaviors.
Post hoc test Bonferroni revealed that, compared to individuals who reported optimal parenting, affectionate constraint, and neglectful parenting, individuals who
experienced affectionless control reported significantly higher recall of exposure to paternal
loyalty conflict behaviors.
According to Amato and Afifi (2006) youth who are involved in their parents»
conflict can feel caught between their parents and hence
experience stressful
loyalty conflicts and cognitive dissonance.