Aux termes des dispositions de l’article 373-2 du Code civil la séparation des parents est sans incidence sur les règles de dévolution de l’exercice de l’autorité parentale. Chacun des père et mère doit maintenir des relations personnelles avec l’enfant et respecter les liens de celui-ci avec l’autre parent. Le principe est donc qu’au-delà du divorce,…

This article examines the assertions, made by two main groups of critics, about Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) and parental alienation (PA). Among the topics discussed are: role of the alienating parent; structural interventions such as custodial transfer; relationship between PAS and allegations of sex abuse; and controversy over use of the term syndrome.

When caregivers conflict, systemic alliances shift and healthy parent-child roles can be corrupted. The present paper describes three forms of role corruption which can occur within the enmeshed dyad and as the common complement of alienation and estrangement. These include the child who is prematurely promoted to serve as a parent’s ally and partner, the…

A sample of 50 college students responded to a questionnaire measuring perceptions of alienating behaviors on the part of their parents and their current relationship with each parent. Data revealed a higher degree of alienating behavior by divorced parents when compared to non-divorced parents. Mothers and fathers were rated about equally likely to engage in…

Psychiatrists, mental health workers, and lawyers serving families in court have all heard it before: a mother saying, «He is nothing but a sperm donor,» a father trying to contain his rage, saying, «My ex-wife is brainwashing my children with denigrating accusations, so the children are afraid of seeing me because of false allegations of…

In child custody disputes between hostile parents, one parent will sometimes try to alienate the children from the other parent. This can be done for legal purposes or may simply be done for psychological motives. «Parental alienation syndrome» (PAS) has not been accepted by the scientific community as valid and reliable. It has been advanced…

Marriages in the United States are certainly not a stranger to divorce and all the related psychosocial issues involved. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the divorce rate over the past few years has been essentially half the rate of marriages. Children involved in divorce have a wide range of experiences and…

El Síndrome de Alienación Parental (SAP) fue definido por Gardner (1985, 1987, 1992) como una alteración que usualmente aparece en el contexto de un divorcio, en la que el niño desprecia y critica a uno de sus progenitores, cuando tal valoración negativa está injustificada o es exagerada. En el SAP un progenitor programa mentalmente al…

The degree of conflict between parents during and after separation has been identified as the single best predictor of outcomes for children after divorce (Pruett, Williams, Isabella, & Little, 2003; Schick, 2002). One distinct form of parental conflict that can sometimes emerge under high conflict situations has been termed parental alienation (PA). This refers to…

Divorce has become a significant social phenomenon in Italy since the end of the 1980s and early 1990s; it has gradually increased to the same proportions observed in other parts of the Western world. There has been a 60% increase in the number of divorces since the beginning of the 1990s, from 50,000 cases in…