Taking Parental Alienation Seriously – Brazil’s New Law
In the wake of the Sean Goldman episode, Brazil’s President has signed legislation defining parental alienation and arming judges with powerful remedies to assist alienated children. The law defines an...
View ArticleDr. Warshak Debuts on HuffPost
The Huffington Post invited me to write commentary for their new section, Divorce, that they are launching on Monday, November 8. I am pleased that the editor decided to include my post, titled Stop...
View ArticleStop Divorce Poison
The Huffington Post published my commentary today. Click the link at the end of this excerpt to see the full article at HuffPost. If you like it, and you have the time, it would be nice to leave a...
View ArticleRecent Higher Court Decisions Re: Parental Alienation
Parental alienation and parental alienation syndrome case law reference list. Continue reading →
View ArticleWelcome Back, Pluto Transforms Children’s Attitudes
My hope in writing and producing Welcome Back, Pluto was to translate the ideas in my guide, Divorce Poison: How To Protect Your Family From Bad-mouthing and Brainwashing, into a format that could...
View ArticleBest Time to Buy Alienation Busters
The Alienation Busters page of Building Family Bridges gives suggestions for books and videos that can help alienated children. Amazon.com is offering a Black Friday week, beginning Monday, November...
View ArticleThe Complex Tapestry of Parent-Child Relations
Stop Divorce Poison exposed the fallacy of assuming that both parents always contribute equally to their conflicts. When it comes to the psychology of alienated children, though, it is equally...
View ArticleParental Alienation Buster: Moratorium on Discussing the Past
Family Bridges: A Workshop for Troubled and Alienated Parent-Child Relationships eases the transition when irrationally alienated children, teens, and young adults reunite with rejected parents. (The...
View ArticleParents Helping Parents: Tips from Victims of Divorce Poison
Warshak.com offers advice for parents at the Divorce Poison Control Center. Many of these tips come directly from parents. Others are the result of what clients and readers of my books have taught me....
View ArticleKudos to Critics
In response to my first article on The Huffington Post, the blogosphere has seen a spate of attacks on me. Fortunately, the supporters outnumber the detractors by far. I thank my critics for doing such...
View ArticleThe Slanted Truth: Rationalizing Trash-Talk
When a parent talks trash about the other parent directly to the children, a common rationalization is, “My children deserve to know the truth.” You will observe that “the truth” in these situations...
View ArticleAnswering Critics – Part 1
The many parents I have helped, women and men, express astonishment that some people demonize me, attempt to tarnish my reputation, and spread misleading and false information about my work and me....
View ArticleAlec Baldwin’s A Promise to Ourselves
Alec Baldwin was kind enough to tell me how much my book, Divorce Poison: How To Protect Your Family From Bad-mouthing and Brainwashing, helped him understand his difficult family situation. I would...
View ArticleState of Plutoverse – 2010
This is the first of what I hope will be an annual column recapping significant professional events of the year. 2010 was unusual in the number of major milestones that occurred. I do not expect to...
View ArticleWhen Kids Need to Know Bad Things About a Parent – Part 2
You are convinced that your child’s other parent, or a grandparent is bad, and the kids should know about it. Do they really need to hear what you have to say? When facing the impulse to present a...
View ArticleParental Alienation in Finland
State of Plutoverse – 2010 mentioned the upcoming Finnish translation of Divorce Poison. Today I received a note from a faculty member of the University of Helsinki that parental alienation is being...
View ArticleBad-mouthing a Parent Harms Children’s Self-esteem
In response to a comment on my recent Huffpost blogpost, I wrote the following. Children identify with both parents. Remember how you felt as a child when a playmate trashed-talked your parents? In my...
View ArticleKudos for Pluto
The American Journal of Family Therapy, a peer-review, refereed journal, has published a review of the DVD, Welcome Back, Pluto: Understanding, Preventing, and Overcoming Parental Alienation. The...
View ArticleWhen Kids Need to Know Bad Things About a Parent – Part 3
The Warshak Test helps parents judge whether their criticisms of each other are likely to help or hurt their children. The purpose of the test is to raise awareness of the impact of your words on your...
View ArticleParental Alienation Cited in Goldman Decision
Parental alienation is emotional abuse. Judge Guadagno is clear about this. Ruling last week in the Goldman case, the judge calls the behavior of the child’s stepfather and family “contemptible” for...
View ArticleWhy Did You and Daddy Get Divorced?
When parents decide to divorce they face the difficult challenge of telling the children. The task is so difficult that about one in four parents say nothing to the children. They leave the kids to...
View ArticleNY Higher Court Decision on Parental Alienation
MATTER OF BOND v. MacLEOD 2011 NY Slip Op 03153 509360.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department. Decided April 21, 2011. Based upon the expressed preferences of 13-year-old...
View ArticleMilestone: 100 Five-Star Reviews of Divorce Poison on Amazon!
As I mention in the Introduction to the revised edition of Divorce Poison, it has been so gratifying to hear from readers who find my work helpful in navigating a difficult passage in their life. I am...
View ArticleMother’s Day Message to Rejected Mothers
Mother’s Day is not a happy occasion for mothers whose children reject them. On this day your children should be honoring you and celebrating your contributions to their lives. Instead, their love for...
View ArticleExistence of Parental Alienation Is Now Beyond Debate
Survey results just released show near unanimous agreement among professionals that children can be manipulated by one parent to turn against the other parent. The survey was taken at the annual...
View ArticleParental Alienation Victim in Court: “I Lied About Abuse.”
When a child’s affection for a parent has been effectively poisoned, the result can range from sad and emotionally devastating to severe tragedy. Some cases of divorce poison leave a parent bereaved at...
View ArticleAlienated Children As Cat’s Paws
In The Monkey and the Cat, an Aesop fable put into verse by 17th century poet Jean de La Fontaine, Betrand the monkey induces Raton the cat to pull roasting chestnuts from the fire, by promising him a...
View ArticleFather’s Day Message to Rejected Fathers
I set out to write this message for rejected fathers and quickly realized that I wanted to tell them the same things I told rejected mothers on Mother’s Day. So here is the prior blogpost, intact,...
View ArticleCollege Helps Renew Parent-Child Ties
Some time during my first semester in the men’s dormitory at Cornell (in those days co-ed dorms were mere fantasies), the guys on the floor began talking about their parents. The more we talked, the...
View ArticleDivorce Poison (2nd ed) Now in iTunes and Kindle
The wait is over. Through some gap between my publisher and the Kindle folks, the downloadable edition of the revised edition of Divorce Poison never saw the light of digital day in 2010. Last April,...
View ArticleState of Plutoverse – 2011
In case you wondered, other projects have pushed my annual review of the year to the side for a couple of months. File this column under: better late than never. Pluto Transforms Lives Across Six...
View ArticleState of Plutoverse – 2012
2012 was both an interesting and personally difficult year for me. A serious illness in my family placed severe limitations on the time I could devote to my writing and research. As a result,...
View ArticleManaging Severe Cases of Parental Alienation
I am pleased to announce my new article: Managing Severe Cases of Parental Alienation. Published by the State Bar of Texas, it includes never-before-published material previously available only through...
View ArticleAlienated Trekkies: Star Trek Fans Who Hate (Or Are On Their Way To Hating)...
Resources for parents whose children are Star Trek fans and are alienated or at risk for becoming alienated from a parent. Stories, fairy tales, and fables are the age-old ways of communicating life’s...
View ArticleReaching Out to Young Adults After Years of Estrangement
A therapist’s advice column instructed alienated parents to take the type of proactive stance that I advocate in Divorce Poison to prevent and overcome parental alienation, and concluded by urging...
View ArticleTeaching Children to Hate
Two common divorce scenarios: You thought your marriage was on solid ground, until you discovered your spouse’s affair. You file for divorce, and blame the end of your marriage on your spouse’s...
View ArticleWhat Courts Can Do About Parental Alienation
Last February I was honored to be invited to Victoria, British Columbia to film segments as a guest on the leading talk show produced in Canada: Family Matters. The show is hosted by Justice Harvey...
View ArticleTen Parental Alienation Fallacies
I am pleased to announce my new paper, published online earlier this month by the American Psychological Association (APA). Ten Parental Alienation Fallacies That Compromise Decisions in Court and in...
View ArticleUnderground Love
♪ Baby, baby/Where did our love go? ♪ One of the most disheartening and confounding aspects of parental alienation is the evaporation of your child’s lifelong love for you, sometimes in the blink of an...
View ArticleWaiting for a Child’s Return: False Hope or Realistic Possibility?
A comment to one of my Facebook posts expressed pessimism regarding reconciliation with estranged children: “How to deal with it? Say goodbye and move on with your life! You will never get your...
View ArticleMistakes Alienated Parents Make: 2. Counter-rejection
In the early stages of alienation some rejected parents counter-reject their children. They rebuke the children for their negative attitudes, and tell them, in effect, “Shape up or ship out.” They...
View ArticleUK Agency Denounces Parental Alienation As Child Abuse
Behavior by one divorced parent that attempts to undermine a child’s relationship with the other parent—what I call “divorce poison”—has been denounced as child abuse by the chief executive of the...
View Article“It really seems pretty obvious.” – BBC radio presenter on parental...
BBC’s award-winning radio commentator, Jane Garvey, talked to Sarah Parsons, Principal Social Worker at Cafcass, and to Joanna Abrahams, a solicitor who specializes in cases of parental alienation....
View ArticleMistakes Alienated Parents Make: 1. Losing Your Temper
Alienated children can be rude, obnoxious, and hateful. They express and provoke great hostility. It is understandable that the target of gross mistreatment feels like responding in kind. But losing...
View ArticleBacklash Against Parental Alienation: Denial and Skepticism About...
A boy wrote a letter to his mother telling her that she belonged in a mental institution, that she was nothing to him, that she was nothing but a screw-up, that she was sick, selfish, that he wanted to...
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