What is parent/grandparent alienation and who does it affect?
Parent/grandparent alienation can happen while both partners are still together or once separated.
Parent alienation is when one parent turns the children against the other parent with the goal of isolating the children and parent from each other.
It is one of the worst forms of brain washing because the kids recognise they come from that parent and begin to question if they are like the “evil, parent who is destroying the parent and family they are told to hate.”
As these kids become older they turn on themselves. They learn not to trust family or themselves.
With Grandparent alienation that takes place at the same time, kids lose interpersonal family relationships and they forget how to trust and form relationships outside their immediate family.
Quite often the kids are also alienated from cousins, Aunties and Uncles as well. The kids have no extended family support.
The parent and grandparents who are alienated from the children are also affected psychologically. Essentially they have lost their kids and grandchildren.
Alienation isn’t just damaging the other parent, it also damages all involved including the kids.
Kids who go through this form of abuse also gravitate towards addictions later in life.
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