“HHJ Bellamy made a ground-breaking judgment in which he said:
‘The concept of alienation as a feature of some high conflict parental disputes may today be regarded as mainstream.
Alienation will only be a feature in a small number of cases and may be outwith the experience of the care professionals. In cases involving an alienated child it is essential that the court has be benefit of professional evidence from an expert who has personal experience of working with alienated children.’
HHJ Bellamy 2010 sitting as a High Court Judge Re S (A Child (2010) – Transfer of Residence – EWCA Civ 325)”‘Reunification of alienated children with the parent from who they have been alienated and the protection of those children from the harm done to them by the alienating parent.’
WordPress congratulated me today on a decade of blogging. I knew it was around this time I sat down to write my first blog on the subject of parental alienation, it was a Mother’s Day memorial for all the mothers without their children, it was for my mother who for a very long time had been without me. I had no idea when I hit the publish button that it would lead to a project which would touch so many lives around the world.
As the years have rolled by since that first blog, I have worked with dozens of alienated children and their families. I have shared the ups and downs of my frustrations with the work that I do in the context I do it in and I have shared the achievements we have made on our steady climb to the top of the mountain. Today as I…
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