What is it about?
This review examines four decades of research on parental alienation syndrome and finds it scientifically unsupported, rejected by major professional organizations, and frequently used to undermine abuse allegations in family court.
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Why is it important?
Children are being placed with confirmed abusers because courts accept a discredited theory. Roughly 58,000 children annually may be affected by PA-influenced custody rulings. That is not a research gap, it is a child safety crisis hiding behind legal procedure. It remains available here under its original CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Perspectives
I wrote this because the pattern was too consistent to ignore. Across the literature, parental alienation allegations follow abuse disclosures like a shadow. Courts deserve to know what the science actually says, and protective parents deserve to be believed.
Dr. Keith Robert Head
Independent Researcher
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This page is a summary of: The Scientific Case Against Parental Alienation: A Critical Review, Integrated Journal for Research in Arts and Humanities, January 2026, Stallion Publication,
DOI: 10.55544/ijrah.6.1.11.
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