Attempts to alienate children from a parent is wrong! Learn to recognize when it happening and what to do to stop it!
The Alienating parent will exhibit specific behaviors, signs and symptoms than those of the children and the target parent. The following examples of Alienators behavior are called Red Flags. The more of these a parent exhibits or enacts, the higher the probability of parental alienation syndrome is occurring.
Refuses to pick up the telephone when the child is calling from the Target Parent’s residence.
Insist that when the child is with the Target Parent that they have the right to excessive telephone contact with the child, yet allow the Target Parent to have little to no telephone contact.
Deliberately changed the telephone number and maintaining a silent number without notifying the Target Parent or providing the Target Parent with the number.
The Parental Alienation Syndrome parent tells the child that they hope they will be OK when with the Target Parent, that they shouldn’t need to go to hospital, etc. thus creating an image of fear for the child when with the Target Parent.
Telling the child that something may happen to the Parental Alienation Syndrome parent whilst the child is with the Target Parent.
Demanding the Target Parent pay for extra costs associated with child rearing i.e. Orthodontic work.
Informing the child that they cannot have braces or other essentials because the Target Parent won’t pay for it.
Refuse a child’s request to spend extra time with the Target Parent, even when this time is for a one off special occasion.
Refusing to send the child to school for events when the Parental Alienation Syndrome parent becomes aware that the Target Parent will be attending.
Removing money placed in the child’s bank account by the Target Parent and not allowed the child to spend it or has not spent it on the child.
Tells the child in a deliberately malicious and vindictive manner that a behavior the child is / has done is similar to the Target Parent.
Parental Alienation Syndrome parent will excessively emphasize the physical and facial features that are similar to the Parental Alienation Syndrome parent and associated family and ignore or deny features associated with the Target Parent.
Parental Alienation Syndrome parent refuses to allow the child to take a pet on visitation with Target Parent even though Target Parent is happy and willing to accommodate the pet.
Parental Alienation Syndrome parent has deliberately moved without providing Target Parent details prior to the move.
Parental Alienation Syndrome parent has deliberately moved and refuses to provide Target Parent with appropriate details.
Parental Alienation Syndrome parent allows a person contact with the child contrary to the Target Parent’s wishes especially when the Target Parent has reasonable grounds for their concern, i.e. domestic violence, previously proven abuse.
The child undergoes or has undergone unnecessary surgical procedures without the prior knowledge or consent of the Target Parent when there is evidence supporting the Target Parent’s position.
The Parental Alienation Syndrome parent attempts to bribe, extort or threaten the Target Parent into signing court documents that will exclude the Target Parent from the child’s life or enhance the Parental Alienation Syndrome parent’s position.
The Parental Alienation Syndrome parent has expressed a desire for the Target Parent to be dead, die or be killed, or severely injured.
The Parental Alienation Syndrome parent has expressed a desire for the Target Parent and other family members / friends associated with the Target Parent to suffer some major mishap or injury.
