Someone Said Parental Alienation by Jean Mercer - 9781032594576

Someone Said Parental AlienationAbout Divorcing Families Whose Children Avoided One Parent\nAuthor(s): Jean Mercer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032594576, 978-1032594576\nSynopsis\nThis book introduces readers to the concept of parental alienation (PA), a belief system that is used with increasing frequency in judicial child custody and parenting plan decisions.\n\nPA is essentially a legal concept without validated psychological definition, assuming that children who resist contact with one divorced parent have in many cases been brainwashed or persuaded to do so by the machinations of the preferred parent. PA proponents assert that courts should transfer child custody to the avoided parent and prohibit contact between the child and the preferred parent. Unfortunately, the outcomes of such decisions, as reported by parents and their now-adult children, suggest that application of the PA concept is neither sa.