Recently, the court heard about parental alienation from the affected child. The mother was saying negative things about the father to the child in order to disrupt the father:child relationship. The child said that “it did not hurt that much cause I know she’s just saying it. Up to me what I say to you. My visit not hers. Shouldn’t have to say stuff I don’t want to. Shouldn’t have to say I hate dad because that’s not true.”
This child may sustain psychological damage having to manage the stress of having to agree with the mother. The child may then feel they are to blame for the father’s elimination from their lives, which is damaging to their self-esteem and may cause psychological ill-health in the form of anxiety and depression. It may deleteriously affect their formation of adult relationships throughout the remainder of their lives.
Parental alienation hurts your children.
The Eeny Meeny Miney Mo Foundation website is a great resource for parents, children and professionals. The Foundation’s vision is “For children to be free to love and spend time with both parents”.Parental alienation is the outcome of emotional manipulation and abuse where a child’s rejection of a parent is unjustifiable. https://emmm.org.au
If the other parent is saying things to the children about you in order to create an emotional distance between you and your kids, it’s called alienation.
Re-connecting with alienated children can be done.
This is a great article which I encourage all parents to read.
Overcoming Parental Alienation: How To Reconnect With Your Kids
