Our core aims are to raise awareness, educate and campaign against Parental alienation. Parental alienation is recognised as being 'when a child's resistance or hostility towards one parent is not justified and is the result of psychological manipulation by the other parent.' Despite family courts and social care services seeking to protect children and act in their best interests, parental alienation is often misinterpreted or dismissed as a consequence of hostile relationship breakdowns, instead of a form of child abuse. We promote a culture of equality in parental rights, reducing discrimination for parents and their families when accessing child-related services and the family court system during divorce, separation, and child contact disputes. Our charity believes in the active participation of parents in their children’s lives and through our work, we seek to minimize the impact on children that are suffering this form of abuse. We also hold an annual event for Parental Alienation Awareness Day on the 25th of April.
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Parental alienation is defined as a condition, it usually occurs in divorce, separation, and child contact issues. It is the destruction of a relationship between parent and child. The child or children ally themselves strongly with one parent (the preferred parent) and reject the relationship with the other parent (the alienated parent) without legitimate justification.
It involves a set of coercive and controlling behaviours that lead to a child emotionally cutting off from a “good enough” parent who poses no safeguarding risk to them. It is a form of domestic abuse involving the psychological manipulation of a child into showing unwarranted fear, disrespect, or hostility towards the targeted parent and/or their other family members.
Currently, the UK family court system and its government agencies neglect or refuse to acknowledge this form of abuse and damaging psychological issue in our society, which continues to destroy families and cause serious mental health problems for children, non-resident parents and their extended families.
Approximately 200 children a day lose contact with a parent in family court. That is 1 in 3 children never seeing their alienated parent again after divorce and separation and over 1 million grandparents in the UK are denied access to their grandchildren. There is an urgent need to support these victims that are suffering this form of domestic abuse.
We believe that through our work and your support we can make a difference to parents, children and their families.