U.S. child custody outcomes in cases involving parental alienation and abuse allegations: what do the data show?

Percepção de Pais/Mães Separados(as) Sobre Guarda e Convivência Durante a Pandemia

“…Os autores entendem que esse rótulo designa uma compreensão equivocada a respeito do funcionamento de um sistema familiar após a separação conjugal. Diversas publicações têm indicado que o rótulo 'alienação parental' apresenta uma compreensão simplista, maniqueísta e despontencializada dos fenômenos do pós-divórcio, já que os patologiza, criminaliza e pune (Barbosa et al, 2021;Coelho & Morais, 2014;Meier & Dickson, 2017;Meier, 2020;Maciel et al, 2021;Mendes & Bucher-Maluschke, 2017;Mendes & Ormerod, 2022;Oliveira, 2019;Pepiton et al, 2012;Sousa, 2019;Sousa & Brito, 2011). Além disso, esse rótulo também tem um forte viés misógino (Mendes & Oliveira-Silva, 2022) e tende a dificultar o processo de tomada de decisão focado nos melhores interesses dos(as) filhos(as), podendo aumentar, inclusive, o nível de beligerância entre os(as) genitores(as) (Mendes & Ormerod, 2022).…”

Weaponizing Clinical Mental Health in Family Justice Courts: Ethical and Legal Minefields

“…In this ephemeral form, P.A. attaches automatically to soft targets like the mental health and court systems and, often without tangible interference, shifts the blame to victims of interpersonal violence or abuse (Faller, 1998;Meier, 2020;Stark et al, 2019). The evolving challenge for mental health professionals is that the marketing network for P.A.…”

A history of the use of the concept of parental alienation in the Australian family law system: contradictions, collisions and their consequences

“…In eight of the cases where the court held there was alienation by the mother, the fathers' claims had been raised in response to allegations of sexual abuse of the children by the father. The success of alienation claims raised by fathers in response to child sexual abuse claims by mothers recurs through this history (see also Meier 2020). Berns' research led her to tentatively conclude that fathers used PA more as a tactic than mothers -some were 'obsessed alienators and PAS was part of a pattern of abusive and controlling behaviour following separation ' (2001, p. 16).…”

“…His paper considered PA in depth but made only one reference to family violence in connection with 'feminist groups' who 'dismiss all or most alienation claims as fabrications made by male perpetrators of intimate partner violence' as a further exertion of control (Papaleo 2013, p. 1; see also Meier 2020). Although Papaleo accepted that some men alienate their children from their mothers, and that there are children who reject a parent for good reason, women were given special attention as alienators in his presentation: … there are some women who consciously or unconsciously, be they motivated by vengeance or due to psychological vulnerabilities, actively alienate their children from fathers with whom previously, the children had at least a good enough relationship.…”