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Question of the week: Can you help me understand parental alienation?

“We have a couple divorcing in our church. It appears there is a lot of conflict, and lately I’ve heard the term ‘parental alienation’ being thrown around. I’m not sure I understand what this is all about.” The term “parental alienation” first appeared on my radar back in the late seventies. It is a very tough issue to deal with. I’ve had the Read more…

Posted: April 11th, 2018 ˑ 18 Comments
Filled under: Divorce Issues, Question of the week, Single Parents

Tips to help the alienated parent maintain the parent-child relationship

It’s hard to understand all of the issues involved in parental alienation. We’ve learned parental alienation is real. It hurts to the core of parenting. It devastates the parent-child relationship. It is a very difficult concept for church leaders to understand and even harder to encourage the alienated parent. Alienated parents very much need the church family to walk alongside them during this Read more…

Posted: July 12th, 2016 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Co-parenting, Divorce Issues, Research, Single Parents

Understanding and encouraging the alienated parent

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In the article Parental alienation—is it real? we defined what parental alienation is and how to help the children affected by it. Another part of effectively ministering to the child is ministering to the parent. Parental alienation is a family issue, and everyone in the family is affected in one way or another. In order to help you better understand the parent’s issue, Read more…

Posted: July 6th, 2016 ˑ 6 Comments
Filled under: Accept the Challenge, Divorce Issues, Emotions, Modern families, Single Parents, Visitation

Parental alienation—is it real?

My introduction to parental alienation was several years ago. A mom’s ex-husband was constantly telling us all about his ex’s bad traits. If that wasn’t bad enough, when the child returned from visitation with the dad, he was caustic toward his mother. To be honest with you, I got confused about whom to believe and was basically clueless about how to handle Read more…

Posted: June 29th, 2016 ˑ 8 Comments
Filled under: Abuse and Unsafe situations, Divorce Issues, Stress, Visitation