Leading child safety campaigner, Good Egg Safety CIC, has today launched a new publication to provide support and assistance to parents, grandparents and wider family members who have been emotionally cut off from their children following separation or divorce. It follows a study undertaken last year which generated over fifteen hundred responses and laid bare for the first time the devastation, financial ruin, and mental health issues many have suffered as a result. The psychological manipulation of a child by a parent or main carer following separation or divorce, which is intended to disrupt and ultimately sever the child’s attachment bond to their other parent without justification, is one of the worst actions any parent can inflict on a child.Referred to as ‘parental alienation’, the pattern of repeated aberrant parenting behaviours deployed – which every alienated victim parent throughout the world would instantly recognise – can quickly lead to the outright ‘rejection’ of a safe loving mother, father, grandparents and wider family. Children who are taught to hate, to dismiss, to be cruel and to be bestowed with empowerment well beyond their level of understanding and cognitive abilities, suffer grievously as a consequence. Adults who were alienated as children testify to this. Their legacy...

One of the hardest things I've had to deal with is just the fact that I can't do this alone. Me relying on my son's mother to do the right thing and have our best interests at heart completely flew out the window with her behavior leading up to and during our situation. I don't recognize that person anymore. I have been proud most of my life of my accomplishments, and maybe this might be some sort of strange irony or something, because one of the few things I've had left no matter how hard things got was that. and now, that's even waning. It's been constantly on my mind why anybody would want to help someone they don't even know. There are a lot of other people facing problems out there these days, and I'm just one in a million. I have always tried to give something back if I was ever given help, and asked nothing in return when offering help. Some kind people have made suggestions and they know how much it means to me to feel like I am doing my part so, once again I put my skills that I do have to use and made...

For much of the past year, we and several colleagues in our field have been trying to convince a publisher to retract a book.  Advocates are using the text because it contains details on how to advance numerous laws in the United States and throughout the world. The text is also currently being used to influence judicial decisions that affect the lives of thousands of families. The problem is, the work contains a massive amount of misinformation, misquoted sources, plagiarized text, and many other flaws. We have been so disappointed with the failure of the publisher and the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE) to address our concerns and our request for retraction that we have decided to share our experience with the scientific community.  On December 3, 2021, Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group,  published Challenging Parental Alienation: New Directions for Professionals and Parents, which was edited by Jean Mercer and Margaret Drew. All of the chapter authors in the book have been staunch critics of parental alienation (PA) research and theory, the study of children who, as one of us (JJH) has written, are influenced by a parental figure to reject their other parent for reasons that are exaggerated or not legitimate during...

   I'm currently going through a difficult time in my life the biggest part of it is parental alienation from my son. A little over a month ago, his mother cut off all communication with me and him and her, after finding out she moved herself and him to another state without my consent or knowledge. The story leading up to this is a long one and you can read all about that in other journals I have posted. I just wanted to explain here why I created this website and what I hope to achieve. I've kept a journals for a very long time, and found it to be one of my passions because I was writing about our family's life. Well, that ultimately didn't end up as planned. I have been in a frantic panic mode because in all 13 years of my son's life rarely had a day ever gone by when I wasn't able to tuck him in bed at night and tell him that I loved him. Now, nothing. Just before forcing myself to sleep, I started thinking about how my other journal site started to turn into a ugly mess, and in my own mind...