Sentences with phrase «realistic estrangement»

Family Bridges isn't for everyone and it's critical for family law lawyers and judges to be sure the alienation isn't because of «realistic estrangement» — a parent who is abusive or neglectful or has a new partner, for instance, whom the child doesn't like.

A recognized expert in parental alienation, Mr. Goldberg was the first educator in the United States to co-author and revise divorce education programs to include curriculum content in parent - child relational problems, specifically in parental alienation, realistic estrangement, and enmeshment.

Recent research (Kelly and Johnson, 2001) confirms that there are many reasons for this distance, ranging from realistic estrangement, where a child is distant or rejects a parent who has abused him, to pathological alienation, where a child is distant or rejects a parent due to the influence of the other parent.

[1] Unfortunately, little has been mentioned within the program curricula about the parent - child relational problems of enmeshment, realistic estrangement, and parental alienation.