There needs to be consequences
for alienators!!
The threat of punishment
for the alienator must be supported by punishment, including removing the child from mother's care to a neutral place or to the alienated parent, and to use incarceration when necessary.
Not exact matches
In this aspect women in particular (thanks to Gardners sterotyping) are told to leave their abusers and are supported therein, but as soon as it happens and they are fighting
for sole parental responsibilities to protect their child from exploitation and as a proxy
for continued abuse, they are labeled «mother gaters» or
alienators.
At the least it should be grounds
for government agencies to remove the child from the
alienator's home and place the child with the target parent.
Naive
alienators usually don't need therapy but will benefit from learning about parental alienation because of the insight they will gain about how to keep alienation from escalating into something more severe and damaging
for all.
Harboring old feelings continues to be a struggle, but active
alienators continue to hope
for a speedy recovery from their pain.
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.
For example, if the parent tells a child that a lie said about them by the alienating parent is untrue, then it appears to the child that the parent is calling the
alienator a liar.
Are there warning signs
for potential
alienators?
The
alienator will agree to therapy that absolves them, i.e. agreeing to therapy
for the other parent and children only.
Jailing the children may only have played into the alienating parent's hands, and allowed the
alienator to further blame the targeted parent
for the jailing of the kids.
Over time, as saddening and as frustrating as it is, at some point the services will see the
alienator for who they really are.
Many
alienators prey on the love the alienated parent has
for their children.
For the campaign to work, the obsessed
alienator enmeshes the children's personalities and beliefs into their own.
I hope the same is
for you, so take it to heart, the pronlem is not you (the targeted parent), rather its your ex (the
alienator, to who is turning your children away from you).
In the latter case, he notes that we don't have an effective protocol
for treating an obsessed
alienator other than removing the child from their influence.
For parents with deficits, or histories of personality disorders, substance abuse, or violence, or traits as parental
alienators... the standard is very different, and the parenting plan needs to address these problematic issues, too.
Unchecked the
alienator's obsessive, never - ending message of hate can wreak psychological havoc on a child, creating parenting and relationship problems
for a lifetime.
It is usually the
alienator that ends the relationship with the other parent and looks to justify their decission to friends and family by making out the other parent was at fault and not worthy of any consideration in the process, they can not accept responsability
for their own actions.
All access is denied (at least
for a period of time) to enable the target parent to re-establish a relationship with the child free from the
alienator parent continuing to undermine that relationship.
(To be updated)[
For a commentary with respect to a June 2013 case where the judge change children's residence from the
alienator parent to the target parent, CLICK HERE.]
Judges should start holding the «abusers» or «
alienators» accountable
for their actions with fines, and charging with contempt of court.
It is horribly emotionally abusive to a child to be ripped away from other loving, involved family members and only allowed to see people that their
alienator chooses
for them.
This is a criminal case where the
alienator mother was sentenced to 16 months incarceration
for abducting her children.
Preventing or stopping alienation must begin with learning how to recognize the three types of
alienators because the symptoms and strategies
for combatting each are different.
The
alienator hatred
for the other parent trumps the so called love of their children.
Notice there was no mention of forgetting what has happened, or how you have been treated, but again,
for restoring your emotional balance and your ability to cope with life challenges in healthy ways, you will need to forgive the
alienator.
My personal story will help you understand exacly how the process of parental alienation works and what signs to look
for when dealing with an
alienator.
For simplicity of presentation, then, I have often used the term mother to refer to the
alienator, and the term father to refer to the alienated parent.