PARENTAL
ALIENATION
MEDIATION
- Recently Separated from your partner?
- Want to avoid going to court?
- Do you need to sort Child Arrangements
- Want Guidance with Financial Disputes
Mediation offers significant benefits for parents navigating family disputes. It provides a structured and supportive environment where parents can openly communicate and work through their differences. By focusing on respectful dialogue, mediation helps parents understand each other’s perspectives and prioritise the well-being of their children.
This process encourages collaboration in creating effective co-parenting plans, fostering a cooperative relationship that benefits the entire family. Additionally, mediation as a support service reduces the emotional strain often associated with conflicts, allowing parents to resolve issues amicably and constructively. Ultimately, mediation empowers parents to make informed decisions together, promoting a healthier and more stable family dynamic. If you believe you are a victim of parental alienation we can help. Solent Family Mediation shares the concept of parental alienation .
Emotional Distress: Children may experience feelings of confusion, guilt, and sadness due to the conflicting loyalties between parents.
Mental Health Issues: Both children and alienated parents can suffer from anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.
Relationship Strain: The bond between the child and the alienated parent can be severely damaged, sometimes leading to long-term estrangement.
Behavioural Problems: Children may exhibit behavioral issues such as aggression, defiance, or withdrawal especially in early childhood.
Social Isolation: Alienated parents often feel isolated and unsupported, which can exacerbate feelings of grief and frustration.
Legal and Financial Strain: Ongoing legal battles and the costs associated with them can add additional stress to both parents and children.
1. Confidentiality: Some couples may fear to discuss the multiple issues of their family publicly as that done in court, through intervention they feel more comfortable since the matter is sorted in private.
2. Satisfaction: When a divorced parent come to full agreement with the other through mediation, they feel satisfied with the deal made by the mediator since they had contributed.
3. Agreement: When the two parents participate on the mediation process, the mediator reaches to an agreement depending on each other’s argument.
4. Economical: Mediation process is cheaper than the court process since it involves only one mediator. The meeting venue is also determined by the couple’s financial ability though severally, the mediator’s office is preferred.
5. Saves times: The time spent by the mediator is less as that compared spent in the court
6. Control: since both parents are consulted on their children affairs, the process may not affect emotionally anyone. Remember, the court orders depends on the constitution.
The issue of parental alienation disorder is a serious issue within family law, where an alienating parent manipulates a child to reject the child’s other parent, often leading to parental alienation syndrome. This form of emotional abuse can be considered child abuse and domestic abuse, impacting the alienated child’s mental health and well-being. The idea of parental alienation involves parental alienating behaviours that create false beliefs in the child about the targeted parent, resulting in trust issues and parental estrangement. Family courts and the Ministry of Justice recognise the definition of parental alienation as a form of child abuse and serious abuse. Robust empirical studies and support groups highlight the high risk and adverse childhood experiences associated with severe parental alienation. Addressing parental alienation cases requires understanding the breakdown of the relationship and the result of psychological manipulation.
Mediation services are crucial in helping families navigate the family court system. Mediation emphasise the importance of addressing allegations of parental alienation to protect children’s lives from the abuse of children and mental illness that can arise from such family violence.