The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service’s new guidance on “parental alienation” (Parents at war could risk losing children, 18 November) is worrying. Parental alienation is undeniably damaging, especially in its more extreme form. Hopefully it is considering carefully the extreme dangers of mistakenly diagnosing parental alienation. Parental alienation is damaging to children, and to the adults they become. Parental alienation is rarely black and white – most parents who discourage contact with the non-resident parent are motivated by good intentions, however misguided.

Source: The Guardian November 29, 2017 19:07 UTC