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Divorce and Parental Alienation: A Deadly Combination
by Rick Nischalke

There are hundreds of thousands of divorces every year...Wow, what a sad statistic and topic that is all by itself. But the numbers don’t even come close to reflecting the pain and heartache that divorce brings with it. Most of the time, both partners feel hurt, angry and possibly even betrayed. I...read the full article:: Divorce and Parental Alienation: A Deadly Combination

January 2011
Parental Alienation Newsletter

by Barb & Rick Nischalke

New Beginnings for 2011
Each year if you are like the majority of people around the world, you will make New Year’s resolutions, because you know that you need to make some changes in your life. Year after year people continue to make the same resolutions, in hopes that this will be the year that they do things differently. I for one have had losing weight at the top of my resolution list for as long as I can remember...read the full article: Parental Alienation News - January 2011

June 2010
Parental Alienation Newsletter

by Barb & Rick Nischalke

Past issue of Keeping Families Connected Parental Alienation Newsletter..read the full article: Parental Alienation News - June 2010

December 2009
Parental Alienation Newsletter

by Rick Nischalke

Past issue of Keeping Families Connected Parental Alienation Newsletter..read the full article: Parental Alienation News - December 2009

Keeping Families Connected - Call to Action!
Help get Parental Alienation included in Upcoming Edition of the DSM of Mental Disorders

by Rick Nischalke

For years there has been a debate over Parental Alienation vs. Parental Alienation Syndrome in the mental health community and whether or not it should be classified as a psychological disorder. For the first time, over 60 mental health professionals, attorneys and other individuals from 11 countries have come together to submit ...read the full article: : Help get Parental Alienation included in the DMS of Mental Disorders

New Definition of Parental Alienation: What is the Difference Between Parental Alienation (PA) and Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS)?
by Douglas Darnall, Ph.D., 1997

My definition of Parental Alienation is different from Dr.Gardner's original definition of PAS in 1987: "a disturbance in which children are preoccupied with deprecation and criticism of a parent-denigration that is unjustified and/or exaggerated." ...read the full article:: Difference between Parental Alienation and Parental Alienation Syndrome

Remarriage as a trigger of Parental Alienation Syndrome
by Richard A. Warshak
The American Journal of Family Therapy, 28:229-241, 2000

Maladaptive efforts to adjust to remarriage can provoke or exacerbate parental alienation syndrome. The remarried parent, the other parent, the stepparent, and the child each may contribute to the disturbance. Underlying dynamics include jealousy, narcissistic injury, desire for revenge, the wish to erase the ex spouse from the child's life...read the full article:: Remarriage as a trigger of PAS

Parental Alienation: A Mental Diagnosis?
by Lindsay Lyon

From an early age, Anne was taught by her mother to fear her father. Behind his back, her mom warned that he was unpredictable and dangerous; any time he'd invite her to do anything—a walk in the woods, a trip to the art store—she would craft an excuse not to go. ...read the full article: Parental Alienation: A Mental Diagnosis

4 Myths of Parental Alienation
by Jeff Opperman
Richmond County Bar Association Journal, February 2005

 The problem with myths, like the myth about eating and swimming, is that they are too black and white. Shades of gray have no place in a good myth. Myths don’t give the society the option of considering specific circumstances. For legal and mental health professionals working divorce and child custody cases, one subject that is rapidly reaching mythic proportion is parental alienation. ...read the full article: 4 Myths of Parental Alienation

Parents Who Have Successfully Fought
Parental Alienation Syndrome
by Jayne Major Ph.D (UCLA)

Nothing stirs up passions more than the controversy generated when parents are at war over the custody of a child. A controversy is an issue where evidence on both sides can make a compelling case. It is never black and white, but when people have their emotions aroused, an issue can quickly turn into two polar opposites. ...read the full article:: Parents who have successfully fought Parental Alienation Syndrome

The Kidnapper's Trick
by Nathan Thornburgh
Time Magazine, September 2006

Convincing children that their parents don't love them is a brutally effective way to secure children's allegiance. Steven Stayner was kidnapped in Merced, Calif., in 1972, at age 7. For seven years, he lived with his abductor as a son, going to a public high school, often left alone but never escaping. ...read the parental alienation article: the Kidnapper's Trick

Parental Alienation Syndrome: How to Detect It and What to Do About It
by J. Michael Bone and Michael R. Walsh
THE FLORIDA BAR JOURNAL, VOL. 73, No. 3, MARCH 1999, p 44-48

Although parental alienation syndrome (PAS) is a familiar term, there is still a great deal of confusion and unclarity about its nature, dimensions, and, therefore, its detection.(1) Its presence, however, is unmistakable. In a longitudinal study of 700 "high conflict" divorce cases followed over 12 years, it was concluded that elements of PAS are present in the vast majority of the samples....read the full article: Parental Alienation Syndrome: How to detect it and what to do about it

Parentectomy in the Crossfire
by Collette C. Summers and David M. Summers
The American Journal of Family Therapy, 34:243–261, 2006

Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother and Thou Shalt Not Bare False Witness; true words of wisdom for an educated mind. When an alienating parent does not follow this advice—it leads to the erosion of the very heart of a child’s mind, granting them by example an unhampered blur of reality for the rest of their life. T...read the full article: Parentectomy in the Crossfire

Family Law Handbook
by David T Pisarra, Esq.

This handbook is written as a starting point in the discussion of Family Law issues. It is not meant to be a comprehensive study of all possible situations. It is merely a guidebook for the general rules of the law....read the complete Family Law handbook

85 Secrets That Judges and Lawyers Don’t Want You To Know About The Corrupt Divorce Courts
http://www.FathersUnite.org

Statistics on the Crime of Fatherlessness

Fatherlessness is now being intentionally and unconstitutionally created by family courts for political and financial reasons including billions in federal kickbacks from child support, lawyers creating custody battles to drive up their fees, obsolete traditions and sexual prejudice. Divorce actually goes down ...read the full article: Secrets Judges and Lawyers don't want you to know

Experiments in Living: The Fatherless Family
by Rebecca O’Neill, September 2002
CIVITAS – The Institute for the Study of Civil Society

In the 1970s and 1980s many people argued that the traditional family – based upon a married biological father and mother and their children – was outdated. Under the guise of ‘freedom of choice’, ‘self-fulfillment’, and ‘equal respect for all kinds of families’, feminists and social rebels led a campaign to experiment with different family structures...read the full article: The Fatherless Family

Getting Along for the Kids
by Jeff Opperman
Women's Magazine, February 2005

Did you happen to catch the television show, The 101 Most Amazing, Memorable, Incredibly Exciting, Talked About Forever, Hollywood Moments of 2004? I’m a little fuzzy on the show’s exact title....read the full article: Getting along for the kids

What do you do when your child stops seeing you as Mom or Dad?
by Jeff Opperman
Children's Voice Magazine, July/August 2004

Imagine observing a normal, healthy, loving parent/child relationship one week, and watching the child profess to hate, refuse to see, or speak with the parent the following week. Mental health professionals can certainly identify inappropriate anger or immaturity issues in children. But just like doctors in the 1970s recognized flu-like symptoms...read the full article: When a child stops seeing you as Mom or Dad

 
Parental alienation articles are one of the most helpful resources to deal with the affects of this type of abuse.  If there is an article on parental alienation (PA), parental alienation syndrome (PAS), child custody, or another related topic that you would like to see referenced on this page, please send the article or the URL to support@keepingfamiliesconnected.org