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Family courts in England and Wales should give more weight to allegations of domestic abuse than to claims of "parental alienation", according to new guidance. When parents have separated, and are ...
Advocates and state lawmakers say that Rachel Pickrel-Hawkins’ fight to keep her children away from their allegedly abusive father highlights a bigger issue within family courts.
Parental alienation is a theorized process through which a child becomes estranged from one parent as the result of the psychological manipulation of another parent. [1] [2] The child's estrangement may manifest itself as fear, disrespect or hostility toward the distant parent, and may extend to additional relatives or parties.
Parental alienation syndrome is a term coined by child psychiatrist Richard A. Gardner drawing upon his clinical experiences in the early 1980s. [2] [3] The concept of one parent attempting to separate their child from the other parent as punishment or part of a divorce have been described since at least the 1940s, [8] [9] but Gardner was the first to define a specific syndrome.
Richard A. Warshak (born December 18, 1949) is an American clinical and research psychologist and author. He is best known for his research and advocacy in the areas of child custody, shared parenting, and claims of parental alienation in the context of divorce.
Younger’s case has progressed in the throes of a national culture war over gender-affirming care for minors. As of this year, 25 states have banned medical treatments on children who identify as ...
Some states removed decisions of divorce, child custody and child support from Common Law courts and assigned them to courts of equity. Michael Newdow contended that the best interest of the child standard, as currently applied by family courts, violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. [3]
Most of the family court reform work is done by local affiliates on a state-by-state basis. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In Kentucky , the National Parents Organization was involved in the 2018 passage of HB528, the nation's first presumption that shared parenting is in the best interest of the child.