I spend a fair bit of time online trying to help alienated parents prevent and undo “parental alienation”.  In my travels, I have seen a variety of responses to this question.  The one that saddens me most is those who take a very harsh line and suggest giving up on trying to reconnect…”they’re adults responsible for their own lives now, …

For decades, the experts have debated the existence of “parental alienation”, originally defined by Dr. Richard Gardner as a “mental condition in which a child (usually one whose parents are engaged in a high-conflict divorce) allies himself or herself strongly with one parent and rejects a relationship with the other parent without legitimate justification”. Does this happen? YES! …it is …