Parental alienation is when a child strongly aligns with one parent (the alienating parent) and rejects the other parent (the target parent) for unwarranted reasons. In practice, the alienating parent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parents are blaming bad therapy advice for why their adult children choose to cut off communications with them. About a third of ...

Adults who are estranged from their relatives know how hard it is to finally let their family go for the sake of their own peace. While this decision can lead to significant healing and growth in the ...

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 ...

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 ...