Sentences with phrase «turned against a parent»

As the world turns against the parents, they flee.

There is nothing theoretical about a child that has turned against a parent, without justification (with the rejection and hatred sometimes lasting many years — or, even a lifetime).

It was usually a slow and painful process for the interviewees to realize that they had been turned against a parent by the other parent.

In other words, a child would not make up allegations or turn against a parent without a good reason, right?

Some believe that a child would not turn against a parent, unless the parent had done something to warrant the rejection.

On the other hand, in New York, parental alienation, defined as «extreme denigration by one parent of the other parent, or the indoctrination and brainwashing of the child to turn him against the parent», can be used as an affirmative defense to the custodial parent's attempt to establish a support order.

Not exact matches

She supports a woman's right to an abortion, is against the death penalty and corporal punishment, is not in favor of adopted children digging up their biological parents against their wishes, and believes that Dr. Jack Kevorkian and the incurably ill people who turn to him for painless deaths should be left alone.

The erratic winger, who turned 28 on Monday, is currently playing at Old Trafford for Portugal in their friendly against Argentina, and took his parent club's record signing Angel Di Maria out with a terrible challenge early into the game.

Former Gunner Benik Afobe will be available to face his old club after turning down a linkup with the DR Congo, while Jack Wilshere will not be able to feature against his parent club.

Sometimes one parent tends to side with the children and it can turn into «us» against the other parent.

Unfortunately, the rhetoric against bedsharing parents has turned very ugly and negatively judgmental and condemnatory.

But in many cases one party — usually the one who is feeling most vindictive or who has tried to turn the children against the other parent — makes completely false and unsubstantiated claims of abuse as a way to «game the system.»

Susan Stark, the chapter leader at PS 88 in Ridgewood, Queens, said more than 100 teachers, paras, guidance counselors, parents and students turned out to demonstrate in front of the school — wearing yellow hardhats with a sign stating «Caution: Protecting Our School Against Cuomo.»

A small group of parents and supporters turned out last night, trying to mobilize against the school board closing School 115, what was once Pinnacle Charter School.

Synopsis: «A pitch - black horror - comedy about a worldwide mass hysteria where, for 24 brutal hours, parents turn violently against their own children.»

In the wake of his parents» murder, disillusioned industrial heir Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.

One slight turn of the head as he sits listening to the preacher in his hometown church inveigh against his kind of music as the work of the Devil promises an explosion — not at the windy parson or the congregation or his dubious parents, but through a series of compositions and performances that will simply give such nonsense the lie.

Instead, as the authors of The Case Against Homework write, «Homework overload is turning many of us into the types of parents we never wanted to be: nags, bribers, and taskmasters.»

It's not that parents and voters have turned against the principle of using of standardized tests to monitor school and student performance: National surveys continue to show 2 - to - 1 support for the practice.

Plans in the document to turn every state school in England into an academy by 2022 have come under fire from teaching unions and parents» groups, with ongoing protests against forced academisation planned across the country.

At least one former Parent Revolution supporter has now turned against the advocacy group.

Turn parents against their children's teachers and other public employees.

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This has been the first year that the tide among parents has really turned against all the standardized testing.

It must create a rather perverse satisfaction for conservative parents across the country to watch the teachers union engage in mob rule in Madison and see public opinion turn against them.

I was stunned that my public school community would turn against a model of schooling that was answer for so many children and parents who had nowhere else to turn.

Because billionaires evidently need to be defended against public school teachers and parents who are concerned about hedge fund managers bent on destroying their kids» schools and turning teaching into an entry - level gig.

After seeing her parents» love turn against them, Rosabel dreams of an independent life as a governess.

She has the courage to accept herself and her sexuality, even when the world has completely turned against her, including her parents.

In the wake of his parents» murder, disillusioned industrial heir Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.

She also had a rebellious streak — against her parents» wishes, she left for Black Mountain College in 1950, just after turning 18.

Contrary to this philosophy is a behaviour known as parental alienation, in which one parent undermines an intact parent - child relationship, turning the child or children against the other parent.

««The days of turning parents against each other to get little Billy are over.»

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Parental alienation occurs when one parent attempts to turn the child or children against the other.

How about the parent having to watch their child not only turned against them but also the harm it causes the child in other aspects of their life's such as school and the social interactions with others.

Targeted parents living in the nightmare of parental alienation need strategic guidance so that they can more effectively co-parent with a toxic ex before their children turn against them.

Based on interviews with 40 adults who believe that — when they were children — they were turned against one parent by the other, «Adult children of parental alienation syndrome,» describes the experience of being an alienated child from the inside and explains how it is possible that a child can reject one parent in order to please the other.

Parental alienation syndrome occurs when a parent emotionally manipulates a child into turning against his or her other parent, in the absence of abuse or neglect.

For example, at a 2010 meeting of the Association of Family Court Conciliators (AFCC), which is the largest membership organization dealing with families involved in family court, 98 % of the attendees at a plenary session who completed a survey reported that they «much» or «very much» agreed that one parent could turn a child against the other parent even though that other parent did nothing to warrant the child's rejection.

This is a term which refers to the very concerning practice among many separated parents of doing everything within their power to turn their children against the other parent.

Session 7 — Managing Relationships with Your Children During & After a High - Conflict Divorce or Separation Kids are sometimes used as weapons or leverage in high - conflict cases and may have turned against one parent.

Efforts by one parent (referred to as the alienating parent) to turn the child unjustifiably against the other parent (referred to as the alienated parent), through the use of indoctrination, manipulation, programming or other types of undue influence of the child.

It's important for you to develop a sense of the ways in which your ex may be turning your child against you, and the signs that your child is being affected.By Amy Baker (Ph.D.) and Paul Fine (LCSW) Some children who are exposed to behaviors that may induce loyalty conflict can maintain a relationship with both parents.

Parental Alienation is caused when one parent or other significant adult turns the child against the other parent or family members.

Sometimes, however, one spouse can't let go of the bitterness and anger caused by the failed marriage; consciously or unconsciously, the angry ex attempts to turn the children against the other parent.

One parent actively seeking to turn the children against the other in a custody fight is called parental alienation.

I can only imagine how many noncustodial parents in this country have been talked into taking Prozac or Paxil themselves to deal with being turned against by their own flesh and blood.

If however, you believe that the other parent has turned the children against you, contact a lawyer as soon as possible.

At one end there is a conscious and strategic, either covert or overt deliberate attempt to turn the child against the other parent.