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Association Studies — Their Usefulness and Their Limits
Association Studies — Their Usefulness and Their Limits
Researchers must use more blunt scientific tools to understand the effects of things like Parental Alienation on kids. Many researchers use what are known as “association studies” to...
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How, Exactly, Does Alienation Impact a Child’s Development?
How, Exactly, Does Alienation Impact a Child’s Development?
What are the long and short-term effects of parental alienation on the children themselves? Obviously, every child is different, and every alienation situation is likewise unique. The severity...
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Common Tactics Used to Brainwash Their Children
Common Tactics Used to Brainwash Their Children
In 2006, authors Baker & Darnall catalogued 66 behaviors that alienating parents use to convince their children of the wrongness or badness of the other parent. Here are...
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Categorizing and Classifying Alienators
Categorizing and Classifying Alienators
Experts often grade alienation along two distinct dimensions. On the “X” axis, we could graph the intensity of the alienation, which might range from mild to severe. On...
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Is It Alienation or Estrangement? 6 Reasons Your Child May Reject You
Is It Alienation or Estrangement? 6 Reasons Your Child May Reject You
As we discussed earlier, children can reject their parents for many reasons, including another parent’s brainwashing. However, sometimes the rejection has little or nothing to do with the...
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Early Scholarly Analysis of Parental Alienation-Like Situations
Early Scholarly Analysis of Parental Alienation-Like Situations
Prior to Dr. Gardner’s writings about “Parental Alienation,” other scholars noted similar phenomena. Author Wilhelm Reich in his 1949 book, Character Analysis, discussed narcissistic parents who defamed their...
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Dr. Warshak’s 3 Components of Alienation
Dr. Warshak’s 3 Components of Alienation
In the early 2000s, Dr. Richard Warshak, articulated three components to define Parent Alienation -- a somewhat different schema than the one that Dr. Gardner developed. Per Dr....
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Characteristics of the PAS Diagnosis
Characteristics of the PAS Diagnosis
Dr. Gardner identified eight factors that can contribute to alienation. The alienating parent engages in a “campaign of denigration” against the targeted parent. In other words, PA is...
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Parental Alienation 101: Understanding the Basics
Parental Alienation 101: Understanding the Basics
No one is born hating another person... People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes...
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Have You Been the Victim of Parental Alienation?
Have You Been the Victim of Parental Alienation?
Even under the most amicable circumstances, negotiations over child custody during a divorce can turn bitter, even brutal. It’s one thing to haggle over how to divvy up...
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