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Archive for the 'Parental Alienation' Category



Suicide victim kept diary of his starvation

Friday 15 February 2008 @ 10:41 am

According to the diary, the man had suffered a broken marriage, was estranged from his daughter and had had his unemployment benefits stopped, the spokesman said. “It’s clearly a suicide,” he added. The diary, which detailed 24 days the man spent without eating, will be passed on to his daughter.




One Out Of Four Children Involved In A Divorce Undergoes Parental Alienation Syndrome

Friday 25 January 2008 @ 2:40 pm

ScienceDaily (Jan. 23, 2008) — One out of four children involved in a divorce and custody litigation undergoes the so-called Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS), consisting of the manipulation of children by the custodial parent, who incessantly tries to turn them against the other parent by arousing in them feelings of hatred and contempt for the target parent, as explained in the book Marital Conflicts, Divorce, and Children’s Development by professors José Cantón Duarte, Mª Rosario Cortés Arboleda, and Mª Dolores Justicia Díaz, from the Department of Evolutionary and Educational Psychology of the University of Granada.




When Ties to a Parent Are Cut by the Other

Monday 24 September 2007 @ 12:35 pm

Most people would agree that one parent has the power to turn a child against the other parent; however, classifying the behavior as a mental health syndrome, as Dr. Baker does, has met with considerable criticism in the past. “It’s been a very controversial area,” said Dr. Baker, 48, who lives in Teaneck, N.J., and has a doctorate in psychology from Teachers College at Columbia.