According to social psychologist Jennifer Harman and her co-authors, about 22 million American parents have been the victims of behaviours that lead to parental alienation, and she urges psychological, legal and child custodial disciplines to recognise it as a form of both child abuse and intimate partner violence.
Parental alienation disrupts family dynamics and has severe psychological implications for both parents and children. The alienating behaviours perpetrated by one parental figure against the other lead to a psychological condition known as parental alienation (PA). In PA, the child aligns strongly with the alienating parent and rejects the relationship with the alienated parent without any legitimate justification. Researchers have identified thousands of alienating behaviours, which have been classified as a serious form of family violence, causing harm to both children and the targeted parent.
Recent polls have revealed that parents who feel alienated from their children are more prevalent than previously estimated. Notably, 6.7% of the alienated parents identified in the aforementioned poll had children who were moderately to severely alienated, affecting at least 1.3% of the entire U.S. population. The prevalence of parental alienation, though challenging to estimate due to the need for comprehensive family history assessments, clearly indicates that the issue is widespread and warrants attention from researchers and practitioners. These statistics underscore the urgency of addressing this issue, developing effective interventions, and supporting families to prevent and mitigate the devastating effects of parental alienation.
I agree with this quote from Harman: She says: “We have to stop denying this exists … You have to treat an alienated parent like an abused person. You have to treat the child like an abused child. You take the child out of that abusive environment. You get treatment for the abusive parent, and you put the child in a safe environment — the healthier parent.”
#charliemccready #9stepprogram #alienatedchild #alienatedmother #alienatedparent #alienatedfather #rejectedparent #rejectedfather #rejectedmother #highconflictcoparenting #coparenting #coparentingwithanarcissist #coparenting #highconflictdivorce #divorce #childabuse #narcissisticabuseawareness #narcissisticabuserecovery #narcissism #narcissisticabusesurvivor #narcissisticparent #narcissisticpersonalitydisorder #narcissisticchildabuse #narcissist
GreatCosmicMothersUnite 