Why 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...
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