Understandably, the sacred parent/child bond is often destroyed and it can be decades before these children communicate with their loving parent again, if at all. Using a set of planned strategies, which include bad-mouthing the other parent, limiting contact with that parent, forbidding discussions and pictures of the other parent, distorting happy memories, creating the impression that the other parent is dangerous, filing false allegations against this loving parent, lying in Court and to other professionals about this parent, the alienator ultimately forces the child to choose between the parents. Phil and many other national experts have shown, a parent manipulates the mind of their child or teen by getting them to believe lies about their loving parent.
