Kids come last: The effect of family law involvement in parental alienation. 9:27-42, USA, 2015.
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Abstract: Parental alienation following separation or divorce, in which one parent denigrates the other in order to turn their children against that parent, is a well-documented but poorly recognized form of child abuse in Canada and globally. Children without access to both parents are more likely to be truant, drop out of school, suffer poor health, and engage in at-risk, antisocial behaviours. Though maintenance enforcement programs in western Canada address the issue of noncompliant “debtors” (i.e., payors of child maintenance), there is no organization that addresses the issue of noncompliant “creditors” (i.e., receivers of child maintenance) in providing child access. This study identifies the effect of family law when invoked by the targeted parent in parental alienation cases. The primary investigator recruited twenty-eight participants living in Alberta and British Columbia, all alienated parents or grandparents, via public internet invitation followed by a telephone screening to confirm eligibility. Using a semi- structured interview method, each participant was voice-recorded face-to-face by the primary investigator. Each interview was subsequently transcribed for analysis, which identified four core themes suggesting factors that affect the alienated parent-child relationship once family law is involved.
@article{Giancarlo2015kcl,
  title = {Kids come last: The effect of family law involvement in parental alienation},
  xau = {Giancarlo, C | Rottmann, K},
  year = {2015},
  address = {USA},
  keywords = {parental alienation and parental alienation syndrome and child abuse and children of divorce and family law},
  xla = {English},
  xu2 = {Legal | Long-term Consequences | Quantitative Research | Short-term Consequences},
  booktitle = {International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review},
  volume = {9},
  abstract = {Abstract: Parental alienation following separation or divorce, in which one parent denigrates the other in order to turn their children against that parent, is a well-documented but poorly recognized form of child abuse in Canada and globally. Children without access to both parents are more likely to be truant, drop out of school, suffer poor health, and engage in at-risk, antisocial behaviours. Though maintenance enforcement programs in western Canada address the issue of noncompliant “debtors” (i.e., payors of child maintenance), there is no organization that addresses the issue of noncompliant “creditors” (i.e., receivers of child maintenance) in providing child access. This study identifies the effect of family law when invoked by the targeted parent in parental alienation cases. The primary investigator recruited twenty-eight participants living in Alberta and British Columbia, all alienated parents or grandparents, via public internet invitation followed by a telephone screening to confirm eligibility. Using a semi- structured interview method, each participant was voice-recorded face-to-face by the primary investigator. Each interview was subsequently transcribed for analysis, which identified four core themes  suggesting factors that affect the alienated parent-child relationship once family law is involved.},
  pages = {27-42}
}

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