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Most pernicious now is the idea of “parental alienation”, introduced by the American child psychiatrist Richard A Gardner in 1985 to characterise a “disorder” wrought by the (possibly unconscious) “indoctrinations” of men-hating mothers.
I was warned my children would be ripped in half when we divorced. But I had no idea just how brutal custody cases can be Lara Feigel 2026
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Most pernicious now is the idea of “parental alienation”, introduced by the American child psychiatrist Richard A Gardner in 1985 to characterise a “disorder” wrought by the (possibly unconscious) “indoctrinations” of men-hating mothers.
I was warned my children would be ripped in half when we divorced. But I had no idea just how brutal custody cases can be Lara Feigel 2026
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