Parental Alienation & A Child's Intense Fear Reaction

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A recent article from Charles D. Jamieson, a Palm Beach County family law and divorce attorney, sheds some light on one of four contributing factors to parental alienation: a child's intense fear reaction.

It may be difficult to understand how one parent can effect such a fear reaction in a child unless one remembers the essential human need for connection. The child begins to see the non-custodial parent as having abandoned him and surmises that if he disappoints the cu...