Parental Alienation Syndrome is defined as a syndrome where one parent (usually the custodial parent) alienates the child or children from the other parent. A child psychiatrist organized this syndrome by the name of Richard Gardner. The fact that Parental Alienation Syndrome is used in custody litigations makes it a very controversial issue. The syndrome tends to target one parent and favor the other, sometimes leaving the child in compromising situations. Also, Gardner's 'syndrome' lacks scientific
Parental Alienation: Understanding its Causes and Effects With the increase of divorce and the number of children being born out of wedlock, parental alienation continues to grow. With custody laws changing, allowing for equal opportunities for both parents to raise their children, and fathers beginning to fight for their right to be involved, not just every other weekend fathers, custody battles have become increasingly fierce. Another factor contributing to this is the fact that many courts
There term alienation is a phenomenon when people feeling isolated. This could be due to the environment they live in or as a result of other factors. Most people believe that there is a tendency to become alienated when they live their communities but in most cases it is the other way around, people can still be alienated even more than an outsider in their own communities. According to Karl Marx’s Manuscripts of 1844, alienation is defined as: the separation of things that naturally belong together
Alien hand syndrome is a neurological disorder (disorder in the brain). The person, who has alien brain syndrome, loses the feeling of one’s hand and their hand feels as if it is possessed by a force outside of one person’s control. When a person makes a decision to take a drink from a cup, a signal originates in the frontal lobe of the brain; the frontal lobe’s signal plans and organizes what must take happen in order for the person to take a drink. When the person takes a drink, the brain gives
Parental Alienation has had an enormous impact on my life. Being, separated from my daughters was the most dramatic event I have ever experienced. Preferably, I would be writing about the joyfulness of marriage and fatherhood. However, in this case it is not to be a happy conclusion, yet. For a time, there was nothing more pleasurable in my life. There is nothing, I can truly say that can compare to the emotions of becoming a father for the first time. Perhaps that is, why there is nothing that can
matter into her own hands. She commits 3 different crimes as she feels betrayed and heartbroken. As this situation could have been in a peaceful way, she is a lunatic for killing innocent souls. Medea in psychological lens, suffers from ID, Parental Alienation Syndrome and has a crisis. ID is lead to a
Techniques Used to Accomplish Parental Alienation: How could this happen? “I hate you, Mom!” Most children have screamed this in frustration at least once. Some children show an unwarranted rage toward a parent, particularly following a high-conflict divorce. Parental alienation syndrome occurs when a parent emotionally manipulates a child into turning against his or her other parent, in the absence of abuse or neglect. Three levels of severity were described by child psychologist Dr Richard Gardner
When a couple get’s a divorce, most of the time the child lives with their mother (Zinsmeister). This is how it has remained for years. Laws should focus more on the fact that children are better off with both parents in their lives (Jones). It is insane that this is not even considered. With that being said, Fathers receive custody only 8-14% of the time, and mothers 68-88% (Hughes). This is a major difference. A 50-50 split in custody only occurs two to six percent of the time after a divorce
“I hate you!” Most mothers have heard this at least once, as an expression of anger, not sincerity. However, a few children direct undeserved rage at previously cherished parent due to a derogatory campaign from the other parent. Parental alienation is the term used to describe behaviors, chiefly during high conflict divorce, of one parent to coerce his child into cruelty against the targeted parent for reasons not based in reality. Because this is such a complex subject, this essay will focus on
similar result. Seligman called the behavior as “learned helplessness”, describing it as the conditioned expectation that an outcome from a situation is not changeable nor avoidable. The theory has been applied not just to women showing the battered syndrome, but to many situations and behaviors. These include depression, aging, domestic violence, discrimination, parenting, academic achievement, drug abuse and alcoholism (Nolen, 2015). The second theory was developed by Dr.
Introduction Battered woman syndrome (BWS) is a phenomenon where a victim of domestic violence ends up killing their abusive partner, usually when they are in a docile state such as being asleep. This syndrome has explained the psychology of an abuse victim and why they do what they do and when. This is a defense a lot of women used in court who are getting charged for killing their abuser. At times, this defense seems to work, letting the victim off without any charges. Unfortunately, there
A moral dilemma arises when there is a conflict that requires an individual to make a choice between two or more actions, and the choice of each action depends on the moral consequence of a given action and is also based on the moral reasoning. One moral dilemma that exist in our society is marriage and divorce, many times couple have a difficult time making a decision on whether to continue with their marriage or divorce based on the marital problems that exist in their marriage. Every person wants
ever known to be comforting, or true. It raises questions, creates anger, sadness and shame. When parental conflict is added to the upheaval of everyday life for a child, it can have many adverse effects: depression, lowered self-worth, social withdrawal, lack of concentration in school, and it can change how a child handles their own relationships as an adult. It stands to reason that avoiding parental conflict during a divorce procedure would be in the best interest of a child; however the Court
The Psychopath: Nature or Nurture? To what extent is psychopathy attributed to biological predisposition? Name: Nicolette Nuutinen Candidate #: Subject: Psychology – Extended Essay Word Count: School: Land O’ Lakes High School Date: August 2014 Abstract This paper investigates the research question: to what extent is psychopathy due to biological predisposition? The concept of the psychopath has existed for centuries, and while extensive studies have been performed
Throughout the United States, more than one-third of children don't live with their biological fathers, and about 17 million of those children don't live with any father at all. Of those, roughly 40 percent haven't seen their fathers in the last year. The over 500 Father's Rights organizations are trying in a variety of ways to change these statistics because they believe that fathers are necessary to the intellectual, psychological and emotional well- being of all children. "Family values" groups
A Woman’s Struggle to Be “I Stand Here Ironing”, is a short story, written by Tillie Olsen in which the author is able to engage the reader to the plight of a mother who is suffering from depression. It is through the mother’s narration of the story that the reader is pulled into the life of a middle aged woman during the late 1930’s and early 1940’s. The first-person narrative technique permits the development of a very personal interior monologue and the examination of an entire lifetime of events
.4 Autobiography I attended a large Catholic Girls Secondary school in Enfield North London. At the time of selecting schools, this was never my first preference but more lead by parental influence and following the routine of my two older siblings. Nonetheless, I was hugely excited and eager to start secondary schooling to finally join my too ‘super cool’ elder sisters at school. For many years I spent most of my younger childhood listening into their conversations about their fun experiences they