When you're an alienated parent, it can feel like you're the only one. Many of you, are the only one you know going through this, and it was like that for me too. There are no local support groups or meetups like there are for addiction or bereavement . #parentalalienation

Believe me, I know how much it can be tempting to wish for karmic justice to punish those who harm us—parents who alienate children, spreading falsehoods and creating grief, separation and chaos. But clinging to vengeance keeps us weighed down . @charliemccready1 #childcustody

I hear stories like this every day. A parent undergoes extensive psychological evaluations, with findings that clearly expose the alienating parent’s harmful behaviour. Yet the court delays admitting the evidence . #parentalalienation #familycourt #custody #childrensrights

We must stand together. Mothers and fathers. Grandparents and step-parents too. Not against each other but side by side. We are all fighting the same injustice. The same grief. The same abuse. The same loss. #parentalalienation #mothersmatter #fathersmatter #childcustody

I use the word ‘grooming’ quite deliberately, as it has connotations with sexual abuse, which is recognised abuse, as I believe ‘parental alienation’ should be too. The children are coercively controlled and manipulated . @charliemccready1 #parentalalienation #custody

Detachment is not easy. We hold onto grief and anger because, in some way, they tether us to the memories of those we love but no longer have in our lives. It feels like letting go means losing them all over again. And so, we wait—trapped in a kind of limbo . @charliemccready1

A child’s grandiosity – including narcissistic personality traits and fixed delusional beliefs (a shared psychotic delusion) come from psychological influence by the allied and alienating parent . read more @charliemccready1 . #parentalalienation #parentalalienationawareness

It's a hard pill to swallow to think of the pain and suffering of parental alienation as our fate, but in most cases, it has come about through a relationship that not only ran its course, but imploded upon separation/divorce. #parentalalienation #charliemccready #custody

In many families, dysfunction masquerades as normalcy, particularly in high-conflict custody cases. Child care professionals and family courts, unfamiliar with coercive control and attachment disorders, often misinterpret these dynamics. #parentalalienation #custody

Parental alienation is abuse. It is an issue of child protection, not child custody. It is a mental health crisis and a social crisis, yet it remains widely misunderstood and unaddressed. #parentalalienation e #fathersrights #mothersrights #fathersmatter #mothersmatter

I have many examples, I’m sure, if you are reading this, you have many too. These accusations weren’t just lies—they were projections. @charliemccready1.#parentalalienation #childcustody #familycourt #fathersmatter #mothersmatter #emotionalabuse #narcissisticparent

It's so hard for us to make sense of the nonsensical. We ask ourselves: How did my child and I go from one day being loving, happy with me, and feeling loved by me, to quite the opposite? Cognitive dissonance is a way that they cope with a traumatic experience #parentalalienation

A child caught in the middle of this conflict does not simply reject a parent—they are forced into an impossible position where survival means choosing sides. They are manipulated into believing that one parent is safe and the other is dangerous . @charliemccready1 #custody

Fathers, mothers, grandparents, step-parents, schools, social workers, legal professionals, family courts, care workers, police . we all need to be agreed that parental alienation is abuse that denies a child their rights to have both (non-abusive) parents in their life.

Why do I create these posts in what little spare time I have each day? Rage. Compassion. Hope. Love. I passionately believe it doesn’t have to be this way, and things must change . @charliemccready1 . #parentalalienation #childabuse #custody #narcissisticparent #familycourt

It’s tempting to internalise everything—to feel guilty, ashamed, or even gaslighted into questioning, Was it me? It’s also very easy to feel angry at the world, all those who misunderstand, misjudge or even deny our experience, our grief, our loss . @charliemccready1 #custody

I feel that the story of Mutiny on the Bounty, where power is seized, loyalty is manipulated, and those who oppose the new leader are cast adrift, mirrors parental alienation. The alienating parent, like a mutinous leader, refuses to share control #parentalalienation

Parental alienation is not a gendered issue. I work with both mothers and fathers who have been targeted, excluded, and erased . #parentalalienation #familycourt #custody.⁠

Keep your door open, even if your child is too afraid to walk through it right now. Keep standing in your truth, because truth has a way of rising to the surface. And most of all, keep going. Because one day, your child might just break free and come looking for you.

Children are instinctively loyal to their parents, even in cases of severe neglect and abuse. It is not a natural response for a child to reject a parent. In fact, children who have suffered mistreatment often struggle to set boundaries . @charliemccready1.#parentalalienation