An excerpt:
An alienating parent quickly recognizes that time is best advantage against the targeted parent. Absence does not make the alienated child's heart grow fonder. "The alienating parent will make sure the child only hears negative references to the previously loved mom or dad," Israel said. "The alienating parent will also reinforce the concepts of betrayal and abandonment at every opportunity." The longer an alienating parent can keep the child angry with the other parent, the easier it becomes for the child to stay angry and continue without any contact. After all, what child misses someone who constantly angers or disappoints others?
The slow-turning wheels of justice are an alienating parent's unwitting accomplices. Family court is an institution that has more legal disputes than there are courtrooms to hold them. On the judge's daily docket, cases stack up like cords of firewood. Judges encourage divorcing couples to work out their difference on their own. The courts even have special counselors and mediators to help couples settle their differences. Judges think nothing of granting multiple continuances in order for the parties to reach an agreement. This approach may work when couples are fighting over bank accounts and personal property, but not in PAS cases.
A couple of additional links:
Parents Who Have Successfully Fought Parental Alienation Syndrome http://www.breakthroughparenting.com/PAS.htm
PsyCare: Parental Alienation Page http://www.parentalalienation.com/default.htm
Kevin Ridgefield, CT
--- Ismail Lagardien <ilagardien at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hi folks
>
> ... if you are interested in an analysis of Alec
> Baldwin's tirade against his daughter..
>
> Alec Baldwin’s telephone tirade at his young
> daughter didn’t just renew tabloid interest in his
> custody battle with ex-wife Kim Basinger; it also
> drew attention to a hotly debated form of emotional
> child abuse known as “parental alienation.”.
>
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