Parenting can be a very challenging, albeit rewarding, job. Even when you and the other parent are residing together and have a healthy relationship, parenting your shared children can lead to disagreements. After a divorce or separation, these disagreements and challenges can be exacerbated, as there are often other lingering issues between the parents that…
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Ex Alienating Your Child? Take These Steps ASAP
Stop It Before It’s Too Late April is parental alienation awareness month, a perfect time to explore the topic from a preventative view. If your ex is alienating your child, take action immediately. Parental alienation is a form of child abuse, as it can severely impact a child’s development. Thus, promptly take these steps to…
Read More »Techniques of Parental Alienation: Undermining Authority
Underhanded Undermining Parental alienation is an unfortunately common aftermath of custody battles. Similar to brainwashing, techniques of parental alienation (PA) work to separate a child from his or her parent. The alienating parent often has the goal of gaining the allegiance of the child. A common technique of parental alienation (PA) is undermining authority. This…
Read More »Bumps and Bruises: How CPS Identifies Child Abuse
Looking for the Signs New Jersey’s CPS agency investigates every referral of child abuse using a variety of methods. In cases involving allegations of physical abuse or neglect, CPS caseworkers or representative physicians may examine the child. When looking for signs of abuse, they will note any injuries—including bumps and bruises—on the child. Bumps and…
Read More »Overcoming Alienation: How to Keep Parenting After Parental Alienation
Coming Together Again Parental alienation can cause significant damage to the parent-child relationship. And it’s not just the alienated parent who is a victim; it’s the child as well. Parenting after parental alienation can be difficult because the alienated parent loses authority and the child loses respect and attachment. Trying to parent a child who…
Read More »Identifying Early Signs of Parental Alienation
When a child is alienated from his or her parent, the bond between them is damaged. The damage to that bond can skew the parent-child relationship.
Read More »A Matter of Character: How to Prove Your Good Character to CPS
Child welfare caseworkers watch a parent’s every move. Caseworkers will study you from the time they first contact you to when they close your case.
Read More »What Is Parental Alienation?
One of the dangers of divorce and separation to children is parental alienation. Parental alienation happens when one parent does or says things to turn the child against the other parent.
Read More »Defining Success on Your Own Terms and Working Towards It
In this chapter, we touched on common practices that parents and therapists can use to reverse or at least stop the damage caused by parental alienation. We also explored some common obstacles that confront families going through this process. Frustratingly, research science remains in its infancy in terms of being able to explain how and…
Read More »What If the Alienating Parent Is Obsessed? [Part 2]
Here are some more insights – continuing from where we left off in the last post: • Use the court to protect your rights and force compliance, if necessary. Under certain conditions, the court can require an appointed staff member to review the other parent’s compliance with any orders. It can also establish what’s known…
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