Examples of How to Alienate Children

How to Alienate a Child in Three Five Easy Examples: Alienators in Action: Alienators Caught on Tape

Don't try this at home. You could possibly face jail time under state laws against child psychological abuse (e.g. against mental injury of a child):

1. Parental alienation Caught on Video Camera:

1. Parental Alienation Caught on Camera: an erasing parent "supervises" a conversation between child and soon to be erased parent. Click here to see this picture. Question: is that child getting the message that a relationship with the other parent is not encouraged? Question: is that child going to feel comfortable relating to the soon to be erased parent? Does the erasing parent somehow feel that the other parent is somehow unsafe, unloving, or unavailable, and is the erasing parent communicating that to the child? Will the child feel tremendous pressure just to block the other parent out of his/her life?

2. Parental Alienation Caught on Audio Tape: listen to the mp3 or wma recording, where an alienator records a session with his child where he manipulates a child into saying she does not like her mother, then submits the tape into testimony, evidently not realizing that it is a textbook example of how to alienate a child.

3. Here is another example of an alienator in action, on an accidental voice mail.

4. You can also read some more theoretical information about the beginnings of parental alienation

Can a child really be manipulated like that? Yes, and it is all explained here.

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