Have your say on government e-petitions

Make parental alienation a criminal offence

Submitted by mark brownhill on Sunday 27th December 2020

Published on Tuesday 5th January 2021

Current status: Closed

Closed: Monday 5th July 2021

Signatures: 1,024

Relevant Departments

Tagged with

abuse ~ Access ~ Child ~ Children ~ contact ~ Criminal ~ Enable ~ Mental health ~ mentalhealth ~ Parent ~ Police ~ Prevent ~ reason ~ Reasonable

Petition Action

Make parental alienation a criminal offence

Petition Details

The Government should make it a criminal offence for parents to prevent access to children unless there is a good reason, such as child abuse.

Additional Information

Too many parents suffer from this once relationships break down, and access to a child is restricted. This affects both the child’s and parent’s mental health. Currently options for resolving child contact issues are too slow. Making this a criminal offence should help prevent access to children from being restricted, and enable police to take action when this does happen.


You can't sign this petition because it is now closed. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!

Have your say on this petition!

comments powered by Disqus

repetition.me is a Good Stuff website

13.58.82.79 Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:03:09 +0100