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Parental Alienation Syndrome

When divorce turns nasty and one parent tries to turn the kids against the other. Dr. Jayne Major, police officer Catherine MacWillie, and film director Shelli Ryan discuss parental alienation syndrome. PLEASE CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE THE VIDEO.

Dealing With "Divorce Poison"

Keeping Your Kids Out Of The Mix

NEW YORK, Feb. 2, 2002

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(CBS) When parents divorce, children often wind up stuck in a crossfire of negative feelings and nasty words. Richard A. Warshak, author and psychologist, says that while divorce may hurt kids in the short run, it doesn't have to scar them forever. On The Saturday Early Show, he identifies warning signs that your child may be suffering a dose of "divorce poison" and offers suggestions for improving the situation.

Warshak has two words for divorcing parents: Behave yourselves! Bad-mouthing a spouse is so common, most people assume it's an unavoidable symptom of divorce. But while the temptation to do so is natural, acting on it is not.

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DIVORCE POISON

DR. RICHARD A. WARSHAK

Your ex-spouse is bad-mouthing you to your children, perhaps even trying to turn them against you. If you handle the situation ineffectively, you could lose your children's respect, their affections -- even, in extreme cases, contact with them.

The conventional advice is to do nothing for fear that any response could result in greater injury to the children. But with twenty-five years of helping families, Dr. Richard Warshak is convinced that a passive approach just leaves parents feeling helpless. And the damage to children is considerable, particularly when warring parents enlist children as allies in the battle. The problems range from tainted parent-child relationships in which children are disrespectful or reluctant to show their affection, to disturbances in which children virtually disown one of their parents and all their relatives on that side of the family. More...


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