What children of divorce most want and need is to maintain healthy and strong relationships with both of their parents, and to be shielded from their parents' conflicts. Some parents, however, in an ...

As Labor Day approaches, I am struck by how hard it is to be a loving and involved parent to an alienated child. It is hard in at least four ways. The first is that the child and the favored parent ...

People who were raised by emotionally abusive parents are often faced with heart-wrenching decisions once they reach adulthood. Do they continue to put their livelihood at risk by staying in touch ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parents are blaming bad therapy advice for why their adult children choose to cut off communications with them. About a third of ...

Alan Feigenbaum and Deepti Shenoy present a Q&A with retired matrimonial Judge Richard Dollinger where they examine parental alienation in custody disputes and highlight the challenges courts face in ...

While it is common to say that rates of estrangement are skyrocketing, this is not the case. Estrangement used to be a secret, sensitive topic, and was not studied or quantified. Parents would say to ...

Parental alienation has become the nuclear weapon of custody battles. Accuse your ex of alienating your children, and you might win full custody. Get caught actually alienating, and you could lose ...

A mom on TikTok has started a debate about whether it’s acceptable to leave estranged children out of your will. “With so many of them equating money or what we provided with bribery or our ...

Harriet Newman Cohen, a member of Cohen Hennessey Bienstock & Rabin, and Gretchen Beall Schumann, an associate at the firm, write that long-term outcomes of the "redesigned" approaches to dealing with ...