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Protecting Children When Parents Separate

Cara E Koch

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From Heartbreak to Healing

Self-Help

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Fixed - 10/23/2020

From Heartbreak to Healing is a comprehensive introduction to a common but often unrecognizes family dynamic called parental alienation, which is a serious form of both child and spouse abuse that occurs when one parent turns their child against the other parent for no justified reason—often during divorce or separation. It is a serious form of both child and spouse abuse that occurs throughout the world.

This go-to book for parents who do not know what to do when their child rejects them, is based on the author’s personal experience as an alienated parent years before the experience had a name. It reveals her story and how she healed her own grief, summarizes her research of the literature on this new field of parental alienation, and shares the results of the author’s nation-wide survey to interview other rejected parents firsthand about their experience of alienation.
Topics include:

What parental alienation is and how it works
Who teaches their child to reject the other parent and why
Stories of other alienated parents
How to find and screen parental alienation-qualified professionals
What works to resolve alienated relationships
Next steps YOU can take to help erase and prevent parental alienation

As a recommended resource on the International Parental Alienation Sudy Group website, this book is an excellent resource for social, legal, and mental health professions who want to understand and provide best practices to families suffering from parental alienation.

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Author Biography

Cara is the author of the book, From Heartbreak to Healing: Resolving Parental Alienation After 43 years as an alienated parent with a professional background in child development and family relationships where she managed child development programs serving working parents and their children, plus a doctorate in children’s [innate]spirituality, she finds answers to her questions: “Why me? How did this happen? and What is the purpose?” Through a process of deep introspection, she overcame decades of depression, despite remaining unreconciled with her son. She has now discovered resources, formerly unavailable, that could have led to a different outcome.

Author Insight

Protecting Children When Parents Separate

Positive parent-child relationships are a critical key to the future wellbeing of our children. They are the foundation for life-long mental health. But we often do too little too late to help nurture these fundamental relationships--from early childhood to adult preparation for marriage and raising children. Especially lacking are effective interventions when marriages falter. They are not timely and are often inappropriate. Sometimes these interventions do even more harm. Lasting trauma from divorce is a world-wide public health issue. What more can be done in your community to support healthy family relationships?

Book Excerpt

From Heartbreak to Healing

This advice comes from media expert David Curl, who oversees an international nonprofit effort to transform our approach to family separation. He also points out that ordinary people need to see how this issue affects them. Even though only a small percentage of parents end up in court to resolve custody issues, custody laws affect all separating parents by establishing norms about what is believed to be in the children’s best interest.

Dr. Curl offers six general policy guidelines that are useful in lobbying policymakers and influencers about needed changes to address parental alienation:

1. Treat family breakdown as a child health and social issue.

2. Educate and support families better, especially around separation.

3. Promote and invest in healthier, evidence-based approaches that prevent harm.

4. Require non-adversarial approaches when children are involved.

5. Introduce specialized training and accreditation for all professionals involved.

6. Simplify family law and make the long-term welfare of children paramount.

Action Steps

• Follow parental alienation experts on social media and blogs by myself and other PA experts for up-to-the-minute information.

• Join a local parental alienation support group—or start a new one.

• Offer to do a talk about Parental Alienation to a community group.

• Become active in one of the parental alienation awareness organizations,

• Suggest a school-based intervention to teach problem-solving skills to children experiencing divorce or separation (such as critical thinking skills).

• Contact your state legislators to express your concern and views about what your state needs. Find out if your state has a default custodial recommendation of equal parenting time and whether it contains provisions to assure adequate assessment to prevent alienated children from being forced to live with an alienator.

• Volunteer to be on a State Task Force to explore needed legislation.

Be Part of the Solution
“Help Assure the Well-being of Children after Family Separation”

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Cara E Koch

From Heartbreak to Healing

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Protecting Children When Parents Separate

Book Excerpt

From Heartbreak to Healing

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