I came across this term yesterday and immediately thought I knew what it meant (trust me to do that!) it intrigued me and I decided to look it up I will give links at the end of this short post.

Parental alienation is said by some to be in two parts, the first a subject of great debate is when a child is, for no obvious reason, continually abusive to one parent and overly affectionate to the other. As I said this theory has been the subject of some controversy.  The second is where one of the parents attempts to alienate a child from the other parent, this can happen in a relationship where one seeks to use the child as a means of  expressing anger, jealousy, inferiority or dominance, but I think Parental Alienation maybe most common when the parents split up and there are disputes about custody, access…