Here’s what a Michigan attorney says about the growing misuse of parental alienation in family court:
“The term has become a litigation weapon. It’s now used less to protect children and more to discredit the parent who reports abuse.”
When abusers cry alienation, the courts often rush to “restore balance” — even if it means forcing contact between a child and their abuser.
This not only retraumatizes victims, but it erases the evidence of abuse under the guise of reunification.
Legal systems must differentiate between protective parenting and malicious interference. Until they do, survivors will continue to lose custody not because they lied — but because they told the truth too loudly.