Fighting Parental Alienation Syndrome
The syndrome recognizes that attempts at brainwashing or manipulating children at a young age may turn them against one of their parents. In most cases, the purpose of the alienation is usually to gain or retain custody without the involvement of the other parent. Often, this alienation extends beyond the targeted parent and includes the other parent's family and friends.
The "parental alienation syndrome" has rapidly become a focus of controversy within the mental health and the legal profession. Advocacy groups for mothers, fathers, and sexual abuse victims have often been recruited into the conflict. It has been offered in support of Motions for custody changes in some cases
Even if Parental Alienation Syndrome is not accepted as scientifically sound evidence in Court, the alienating behavior that can lead to the behavior symptoms in a child can certainly be presented as strong evidence to award or change custody so that the alienating behavior does not continue.
One of the first important issues to preventing PAS is to recognize at an early stage when Parental Alienation is occurring. It is at the earliest stages that it is the easiest to combat. If you wait too long much damage may already have occurred in the parent-child relationship. Perhaps so much so that it influences decisions of custody evaluators, courts and their presiding Judges.
