The National Association of Parental Alienation Specialists is an educational resource on the parent-child conflict phenomenon known as parental alienation.

What is Parental Alienation?

Parental Alienation refers to a child being alienated or estranged from a parent. There could be a variety of reasons for this break in the relationship. The word “break” presumes a relationship existed at one time and then severed. A possible reason for this break could be deliberate behaviors engaged in by one parent relative to the other parent that could be directed to or through the children designed to interfere with a parent’s relationship with their child. Read more.

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