Alienating Parents

An alienating parent can appear loving and protective while inflicting psychological abuse on their child through manipulative tactics such as creating fear of the other parent, portraying themselves as victims, withholding information, isolating the child from the targeted parent and extended family, using rewards and punishment to control behaviour, emotionally manipulating the child, gaslighting, discrediting the targeted parent, and undermining their authority. This facade of care masks their intention to control the child’s perceptions, isolate them from the other parent, and maintain dominance over the child’s emotions and choices, ultimately causing harm to the child’s emotional well-being and relationships.

Denying a child a healthy and affectionate relationship with a non-abusive and caring parent is neither protective nor loving, and it certainly doesn’t serve the child’s best interests. This denial robs the child of the opportunity to experience love, support, and guidance from an emotionally available and nurturing parent. This abusive behaviour intentionally obstructs and robs the child of the love and support of an extended family network that genuinely cares for them. This includes grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, step-parents, and step or half-siblings. These family members often contribute to a child’s emotional growth, sense of belonging, and overall well-being.

Alienating parents often elude detection even by mental health experts and family courts due to the complexity of their manipulation tactics, their ability to present a convincing facade of concern, and the child’s genuine emotional distress, which can be misattributed to the targeted parent. They create a narrative that aligns with the child’s distress, leading professionals to overlook the underlying coercive control and psychological abuse. Family courts may struggle to discern the dynamic due to a limited understanding of parental alienation, inadvertently perpetuating the child’s isolation from a loving parent.

Parental alienation needs urgent address so that no children are harmfully absented from a loved, loving parent and all their family. Please reach out you’d like to know more about the coaching I offer.

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Author: GreatCosmicMothersUnited

I have joined with many parents affected with the surreal , yet accepted issue of child abuse via Pathogenic Parenting / Domestic abuse. As a survivor of Domestic Abuse, denial abounded that 3 sons were not affected. In my desire to be family to those who have found me lacking . As a survivor of psychiatric abuse, therapist who abused also and toxic prescribed medications took me to hell on earth with few moments of heaven. I will share my life, my experiences and my studies and research.. I will talk to small circles and I will council ; as targeted parents , grandparents , aunts , uncles etc. , are denied contact with a child for reasons that serve the abuser ...further abusing the child. I grasp the trauma and I have looked at the lost connection to a higher power.. I grasp when one is accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like discrimination.. Shame and affluence silences a lot of facts , truths that have been labeled "negative". It is about liberation of the soul from projections of a alienator , and abuser ..

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