The Latest from Sage Lotus Press

One of the cruelest mechanics of parental alienation is that it makes the targeted parent look exactly like the problem. This is not incidental. It is structural, and understanding why matters, because parents in the middle of it often conclude that they are failing at composure when what is actually happening is that composure has been made unavailable to them. Consider what the process does. A parent is progressively cut off from a child. Calls stop being answered. Visits c

This one is written directly to you, the parent who is watching a relationship with your child be dismantled, and who feels powerless to stop it. If that is not your situation, I hope it never is. If it is, I want you to know before anything else that you are not imagining it, you are not alone in it, and it is one of the most particular and least understood forms of grief a person can carry. There is a specific anguish in being erased from your own child’s life while you are

Few terms in the world of family conflict are used as loosely, or argued over as fiercely, as parental alienation. It gets thrown around in custody battles as a weapon, dismissed by some as a myth, and treated by others as an explanation for every difficult relationship between a child and a parent. None of that serves the children at the center of it. So I want to try to say, as carefully and honestly as I can, what parental alienation actually is, and just as importantly, w