Dr. Linda Nielsen Professor of Educational and Adolescent Psychology Wake Forest University
"...the research is abundantly clear on this: only allowing fathers and children to live together 15 or 20 percent of the time is not in most children’s best interests."
Linda Gottlieb, LMFT - Author, Advocate
"The PAS is an insidious, devastating, bewildering, and commonly unrecognizable form of child abuse."
Liza Alvarado-
It is detrimental to a child's well being to carry on the burden of having to choose between two parents. I believe that children naturally want to love both parents, unless they have been systematically taught to hate, just like with racism, cults, bullying, and hate crimes.
Richard Warshak - Psychologist, Author Divorce Poison
"There's a denial of the problem reminiscent of how child abuse used to be denied," he said. "Often children end up losing an entire side of the family, as if aunts, uncles and cousins all died at the same time, because they lose that contact and that support. And as they get older they feel a sense of loss and become angry with the favored parent for having poisoned their relationships."
Joan Teresa Kloth-Zanard
"PAS can be further described as a form of psychological kidnapping where the child’s mind has been forced to prejudicially believe and discriminate against the Targeted Parent."
Fathers And Families
"A bizarre system that encourages parents to use disturbing tactics in order to win something while going bankrupt...then has the audacity to talk about "High Conflict" to deny half of a child's family equal parentage and access to the child."
Basia Kowalik -Director of "Reaching Higher Ground" Non-Profit for Alienated Children
Remember that in PA, it is not as easy as getting a court order or even showing proof. What we deal with is a systematic manipulation of a child who implicitly trusts the alienator. This process takes time to develop and will take even more time to overcome.
...What I want everyone to know is that children/adults of PA do eventually understand what is going on. Circumstances of shame, ego, pressure and fear of the alienator can all keep them a finger touch away. They are afraid.
Dr Amy J. Baker
“It is unfortunate that women’s groups have taken a stance against the issue, because many women have suffered because of the actions of alienators,” said Baker, who added that both men and women alienate their children from the other parent."
A 2005 study of 125 high-conflict divorce cases by San Jose State University researcher Janet Johnstone indicated that Baker might be right. The study found that 50 percent of women in the cases showed signs of alienating their children, and 45 percent of men.
Children that advance to the more severe stages of parental alienation have delusional thinking. One such belief is that the parent they once loved and trusted, is now dangerous and unsafe to be with. The alienating parent maintains the same belief. This of course has a substantial impact on the child's visitation refusal behaviour.
