Divorce, Parental Alienation, and Estranged Families

Divorce changes the terrain a child grows up on, and in some families it becomes the ground on which estrangement takes root — through loyalty conflicts, badmouthing, or one parent's active alienation of the other. These articles unpack how alienation differs from ordinary estrangement, how courts and families get it wrong, and what parents on either side can realistically do about it.