Someone Said Parental Alienation: About Divorcing Families Whose Children Avoided One Parent

by Jean Mercer

This 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.

PA 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032594578
• ISBN13: 9781032594576
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages