coercive control * Domestic abuse * family court
There is no universal definition of parental alienation, but leading researchers offer a gender-neutral description as follows;
“Where a child expresses unreasonable negative feelings and beliefs (including fear) about a parent that are significantly disproportionate to that child’s actual experience with that parent”.
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When a child resists contact with an abusive father, the mother may raise an action in the Family Court to vary contact. When she does, her situation becomes frightening. The more she tries to prove her ex's controlling and dangerous behaviour, the more powerful he becomes.
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