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Hannah Dreyfus has published a stream of “parent’s worst nightmare” journalism on ProPublica over the past year .
She says she's heard from hundreds of parents who’ve had alienation accusations used against them.
In some cases, kids found to be “alienated” have been forced to attend “reunification camps” run by therapists.
The origins of this idea lie in the 1970s and 1980s , when psychiatrist Richard Gardner coined the term “ Parental Alienation Syndrome ” Claims of parental alienation get leveled at fathers and mothers, but in its original iteration and use as a way to deflect or explain a claim of abuse, it was specifically targeted at women.
It’s very hard to pathologize the fact that a teen doesn’t want to spend time with a parent.
Kids resisting parents is not a disease, it's not a crime for kids not to want to associate with their parents.
The courts do not pay for forced reunification therapy, which is paid for out of pocket by parents.
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