Parental alienation thrives in silence, confusion, and false balance. It survives because many professionals, counsellors, CYLC workers, even judges, take sides, even when one side is actively harming a child. This makes those professionals complicit.

Too often, these professionals are unqualified or unwilling to recognize clear signs of coercion, isolation, intimidation, and control. They dismiss a child's "survival mode" pleas as free choice, ignoring contradictions like begging not to go, then suddenly "wanting" to stay. Instead of probing deeper, they side with the abuser's narrative, rewarding lies and delays, because it is easier or fits a biased "both parents equal" script. This has nothing to do with the child's best interests. It is discrimination against the protective parent, letting harm fester unchecked. There must be no room for bias or discriminatory conduct at all.

Protecting children from parental alienation requires action from courts, clinicians, advocates, and communities. The cost of complicity is measured not in court outcomes, but in damaged lives.

And children deserve better. #EndParentalAlienation