Parental Alienation

Parental Alienation, I said to myself,"What is that I wonder". Well it's a growing trend in the realm of custody battles that is quite disturbing. The term reffers to a situation where one parent turns the child against another parent because of their dislike of the ex-spouse.

As I sat and thought about this, I wondered why this would occur. Well apparently there are many people who were married and have children and for many reasons, get divorced. After being divorced the divorced couple never really deals with the issues that they have with the other person. One way that this manifests itself is parental alienation.

While the word is kind of new and the idea of talking about this in a public forum is fairly new. The acts themselves have been around for awhile. When these cases wind up in court it's not always recognized as parental alienation since this topic is fairly new it hasn't really penatrated the court system in full yet. Conservative courts tend to lean in the direction of the mother in cases that are like this and if the mother is the one that has turned the child on the father it is an uphill battle to get the court to believe that this is a case of parental alienation. Instead alot of times the mom and child are in unison against the dad. This testimony is usually stronger and more accepted than the Dads.

What this means is that it will be a long expensive battle that won't necessarily end in a good result. In fact, it could be much worse.

This sets up a situation where the victims continue to be victimized. This topic really needs to penetrate the court system to recognize and allow for justice to occur. While this is not the case in all instances, it's happening more and more. In an effort to change this disturbing trend, I encourage everyone to read and speak openly about this in hopes that the situation will be more recognized and prosecuted by the courts.