The alienation of children is a growing concern of those who work with families of high-conflict divorce, with a correspondingly large and expanding literature on the subject in the last few years. There seems to be little question that there exists a subgroup of distressed children of divorce who resist or refuse parenting time, and…

The disciplines of law and psychology have in common that they both address human behaviour. Whereas psychology intends to explain why people comport themselves in one or another way, the purpose of the law is to regulate human conduct. Both disciplines have been investigated extensively. There are, however, few studies that deal with the interaction…

It is generally supposed that having contact with a non-resident parent is something to aim for. We share that principle. We are also aware that research findings are equivocal in that the effects on child adjustment of maintaining contact with the non-resident parent are less consistently positive than might be supposed (Lamb, Sternberg, & Thompson,…