Today is National Parental Alienation Day.
Please pray for the children who have been manipulated to hate a loving Parent. Those children are prisoners to a dark form of child abuse. They are deprived of their natural desire to love both of their parents and coerced to “align” with an abusive parent to win that parent’s favor. They are made to feel fear or guilt when they don’t comply with the Alienating Parent’s view of the Target Parent. They are emotionally punished, or desired activities and possessions are withheld for expressing love for the alienated parent.
Some of the abused children live a false reality and completely adopt the Alienating Parent’s perspective. Others suffer as hostages in an existence that they know to be false.
Family Courts frequently fail to recognize Parental Alienation and wrongly support the false allegations of an alienating Parent. Children are frequently separated from a healthy, loving Parent and tragically placed with the unhealthy abusive Alienating Parent.
The abusive Parent typically has a history of mental illness and a strong need for control, they have typically experienced a broken home in their youth. They will utilize false allegations of abuse, layers of lies, and relentless attacks on the Targeted Parent. The children are immersed in the unnatural existence of constant propaganda against the love that they have experienced with the Alienated Parent. The result for the children is frequently a severe Cognitive Dissonance, and they suffer from false memories planted repeatedly by the abusive Parent.
The obvious result of being forced to deny their foundational reality and to live a false existence is the mental health issues of anxiety, suicidal ideation, PTSD, low self esteem, total dependence on the abusive parent.
Depending on the severity of the Parental Alienation, these children may require an “intervention” similar to rescuing the victim of a cult.
For the sake of the children, don’t be a silent witness to this horrific child abuse.
Here are some interesting studies regarding Parental Alienation:
https://loveandiron.com/false-allegations-of-abuse/
https://parentalalienationalsyndrome.blogspot.com/2017/09/false-memory.html
https://thenurturingcoach.co.uk/false-memory-creation-in-attachment-based-paren