What children of divorce want most and need most is to maintain strong and healthy relationships with both of their parents. Children have an innate desire to love, and be loved, by their mother and ...

The concept of parental alienation was first put forth by Dr. Richard Gardner in 1985. Parental alienation primarily occurs during a high-conflict divorce in which the child identifies strongly with ...

Zoe Rathus is affiliated informally with other scholars and practitioners researching the issue of the use of parental alienation in a range of countries. She has a forthcoming article in a Special ...

Last year, a video went viral of two children being violently forced into an SUV. Viewers wondered: Where exactly were they being taken? And how was this legal? The shocking abduction, it turned out, ...

Alan D. Blotcky, Ph.D., is a clinical and forensic psychologist in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama. William Bernet, M.D., is Professor Emeritus for the Department of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt ...

How can I recognize if my co-parent will engage in Parental Alienation? A parent who exhibits signs of a personality disorder such as extreme narcissism, borderline personality disorder, and ...

Adam Venetis came home on a Saturday morning nearly three years ago to find his wife at the door of their house in Phoenix with her bags packed. Leah Venetis had woken up their three children, told ...

The 7 On Your Side Investigates team is taking a deeper look at a controversial practice used by judges in high-conflict child custody battles called reunification treatment. Judges order the ...

When Woody Allen's custody battle for Dylan, Ronan, and Moses Farrow began in 1992, he argued in court that Mia Farrow had become too "emotionally disturbed" to parent them. In particular, he claimed ...

A fresh chapter in the now decades-long public battle between Woody Allen and Mia Farrow opened in the spring of 1993 when they headed to a New York court for a bitter custody case. Allen had filed a ...

The American Psychiatric Association has a hot potato on its hands as it updates its catalog of mental disorders — whether to include parental alienation, a disputed term conveying how a child's ...