How can an alienated parent reconnect with their child? How can they rebuild the former positive parent-child attachment? The process can look dismally hopeless. Misinformation and mistaken beliefs ...

Frequently I will get an e-mail or call from a targeted parent asking me which of my books and writings do I think they should share with their alienated child, as a means of enlightening that child ...

Unlike the well-documented cases of children going "no contact" with their parents, the reverse—parents cutting off their ...

Parental alienation has become the nuclear weapon of custody battles. Accuse your ex of alienating your children, and you might win full custody. Get caught actually alienating, and you could lose ...

The "out of nowhere" story always misses one thing: most of them try. They try in earnest, the grown-up way, before they ever go silent.

Kendall Williams, 53, won't be seeing her youngest son this Mother's Day. But that's nothing new. Williams has been estranged from her son, who is 30, since September 2023, when she decided to cut off ...

Laura Wellington didn't know how much her life would change in her 30s. In 1998, the mother of four learned that her husband had cancer, and a few years after his diagnosis, he died. Wellington, 59, ...