Parental alienation is when one parent (the alienating parent) intentionally damages their child’s relationship with the other parent (the target parent). Alienating parents achieve this by deploying ...

As Labor Day approaches, I am struck by how hard it is to be a loving and involved parent to an alienated child. It is hard in at least four ways. The first is that the child and the favored parent ...

People who were raised by emotionally abusive parents are often faced with heart-wrenching decisions once they reach adulthood. Do they continue to put their livelihood at risk by staying in touch ...

One evening last year, Laura Wellington opened her phone, created a TikTok account called “Doormat Mom” and filmed her first post from her porch in Connecticut. “Were you a really good parent who did ...

While it is common to say that rates of estrangement are skyrocketing, this is not the case. Estrangement used to be a secret, sensitive topic, and was not studied or quantified. Parents would say to ...

Parental alienation has become the nuclear weapon of custody battles. Accuse your ex of alienating your children, and you might win full custody. Get caught actually alienating, and you could lose ...

A mom on TikTok has started a debate about whether it’s acceptable to leave estranged children out of your will. “With so many of them equating money or what we provided with bribery or our ...

Alan Feigenbaum and Deepti Shenoy present a Q&A with retired matrimonial Judge Richard Dollinger where they examine parental alienation in custody disputes and highlight the challenges courts face in ...

Harriet Newman Cohen, a member of Cohen Hennessey Bienstock & Rabin, and Gretchen Beall Schumann, an associate at the firm, write that long-term outcomes of the "redesigned" approaches to dealing with ...