Many view parental alienation syndrome as a harmful and pseudoscientific concept. Why does an academic debate persist?

How can I recognize if my co-parent will engage in Parental Alienation? A parent who exhibits signs of a personality disorder such as extreme narcissism, borderline personality disorder, and ...

The American Psychiatric Association has a hot potato on its hands as it updates its catalog of mental disorders — whether to include parental alienation, a disputed term conveying how a child's ...

Divorce is hard enough on children, but what if one parent tries to damage a child’s relationship with the other parent by saying untrue things and, in some severe cases, brainwashing the child. It’s ...

Over the past year, Hannah Dreyfus has published a stream of “parent’s worst nightmare” journalism on ProPublica. A recent story featured a Colorado mom, Christine, who lost custody of her young son ...

According to a new study, parental alienating behaviors and coercively controlling abuse are similar, and should be treated similarly in family court proceedings. Abusive intimate relationships are ...

Parental alienation occurs when a child refuses to have a relationship with a parent due to manipulation, such as the conveying of exaggerated or false information, by the other parent. The situation ...

In his Matrimonial Practice column, Timothy M. Tippins writes: Judicial opinions abundant in facts and rich in thoughtful analysis are as rare as a white peacock. Hon. Richard A. Dollinger has ...