Parental Ailenation: What to look for in your child

A child who has been successfully alienated:

• Will bad-mouth the other parent with foul language and inaccurate descriptions of the other parent.
• Offer only weak or frivolous reasons for his or her anger toward the targeted parent.

• Professes to have only hatred toward the targeted parent, and cannot say anything positive about them.
  
• Insists that he or she is solely responsible for the attitude toward the other parent, and that the alienating parent had nothing to do with his or her attitude.

• Supports and feels protective toward the alienating parent.

• Doesn't show any empathy or guilt regarding hurting the targeted parent's feelings.

• Doesn't want anything to do with the targeted parent's friends and family.

• May not want to see or talk to the alienated parent.

FOOTNOTE:

Dr. Amy J. Baker has done extensive research in this are and has some great information on her website: www.amyjbaker.com. More information on her research will be coming soon.