Divorce Courts Create Barriers — Contributing to Parental Alienation
Parental alienation targets the child pulling them away from one parent through a series of emotional and manipulative behaviors often sabotaging a child-parent bond — whereas parental abduction involves concealing, snatching and isolating a child from the targeted parent. Both put one parent in the role of being a gatekeeper with a clear objective against the targeted parent — erase that mother or father from being a parent.
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7 min readJun 26, 2019
Environment and Conditions
Conditions created in the confines of the family law arena form environments where children are susceptible to being alienated from a parent as well as physically taken from them.
Inside this adversarial system you often find an industry landscape plagued with judges, lawyers and third party benefactors that confuse their own self-interests with that of the child’s best interests — muddling any chance for parents to have these cases properly adjudicated in a timely and efficient manner — whereby unfortunate outcomes would have a…