Moderator - Western Australia

Hi all,

I have been working with Parental Alienation in one form or another since starting a relationship with my former wife for over 11 years.

I have experienced her alienation of her former husband from his children as well as my alienation from my step children and my own daughter. The complexities of alienation can be very hard to denote and rely heavily on control to my shame I allowed myself to be controlled in the beginning of our relationship which allowed the children s father to be easily manipulated indirectly. He has never been out of their lives but the need for the mother to have her children dependent on her and love her more than their father has seen her manipulate and control how her children see their father while outwardly to everyone else it looks as if she is doing everything in her power to encourage and support both the fathers of her children.

I have been through the regional family court system in Western Australia which has left both a bitter taste in my mouth and an understanding of the much larger picture of the difficulties faced by the system in some cases, these difficulties sometimes leaves little choice but to allow the child more time with the alienator  for the sanctuary of the children.

My hope is that this site will encourage people to use the forum to discuss alienation beyond parent alienation, the need to speak out and encourage all to participate and develop a community of support in this area far out ways silently reading the information on the site and the forums. This problem needs participation from all who come here to view the information if we have any hope of making a difference for those who have, are and will be victims of alienation.

I hope we can all start the change here and now.

Thanks to all that have read this post.

D4E