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Recognise parental alienation and make it a criminal offence.

Submitted on Wednesday 18th July 2018

Published on Tuesday 24th July 2018

Current status: Closed

Closed: Thursday 24th January 2019

Signatures: 319

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Recognise parental alienation and make it a criminal offence.

Petition Details

Parental Alienation
This can occur when a child is caught in between their parents divorce or separation, the offending parent deliberately turns their child against their ex so that they eventually cut off all contact. This can be described as one parent ‘trying to turn their child into a soldier.

Additional Information

Anthony Douglas, the chief executive of Cafcass, vividly described it as one parent ‘trying to turn their child into a child soldier in a battle’. Previously parental alienation has been dismissed as a common product of bitterness about a failed relationship, but it is separate from these normal feelings of hurt. Parental alienation is in fact an internationally recognised form of parental psychological abuse and undermines the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Convention on the rights of the child. In Mexico and Brazil, it is even classed as a criminal offence.


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