Author: Jessica Walters

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Jessica Walters studied creative writing at Utah Valley University. She enjoys reading and writing about health and parenting. Jessica lives with her husband and two young children in Utah.

What is Parental Alienation?

Custody battles are ugly, leaving children inevitably damaged. When parents throw the child’s needs out the window, kids are often programmed, brainwashed, or otherwise manipulated to reject the other parent. Scholarly consensus now points to parental alienation as being a largely overlooked form of child abuse.