Parental Alienation: The Effects Of Divorce On Society

The effects of divorce on society are far reaching, and long lasting. They are not what many would think, such as a drain financially on society, and the welfare system. There are huge impacts psychologically for all parties involved; the children, wives, and husbands. Although there are some instances where divorce is the only way to provide stable homes, such as high conflict rates, there are others where the children would benefit more if the parents worked on the relationship, such as low conflict rates. Although there will always be divorce, one of the lesser known side effects of divorce can be avoided, and possibly stopped. This is a horrible and completely avoidable occurrence, Parental Alienation
There are cases out there where the child is put into the custody of the Target parent, because they claimed the custodial parent was using parental alienation against them. In these particular cases there are claims of abuse, whether it is sexual, emotional or physical. Unfortunately the courts have to decide whether these claims have any truth to them, and if there are no prior claims of abuse it makes this harder to prove, and for the proper decisions to be made. These cases are affected by other cases where parental alienation is in use, because there is such a prevalence of it at this time. So the Judges, Lawyers, and advisors have to make decisions based on what is presented, and if the custodial parent is acting like an alienator, then the judges generally listen to the target parent, when they say there is parental alienation taking place. These children are then placed with an abusive parent, because of the effect on society of parental alienation. These children have no voice, once custody is grated to the abuser, usually the courts side with them and they receive full custody, and the now non-custodial parent has no contact because of supposed parental alienation. These children are stuck in these abusive situations until the abuse can be proven, or they come of age to choose which household to live in, by then the damage is done, they have lived through what could amount to be years of abuse (Phoenix Magazine, Bommerbach). The other side effect is when the courts tell the supposed alienator to stop making these false allegations about the supposed target parent, or they will face jail time. There has to be exhaustive proof of abuse for the courts to listen to these mothers and fathers, and not just say that they are alienators. The courts are