Laura Wellington created the Doormat Mom No More community after her daughter cut off contact. Now she talks to PEOPLE about how the community helps other people dealing with estrangement from their ...

Parental alienation has become the nuclear weapon of custody battles. Accuse your ex of alienating your children, and you might win full custody. Get caught actually alienating, and you could lose ...

How can an alienated parent reconnect with their child? How can they rebuild the former positive parent-child attachment? The process can look dismally hopeless. Misinformation and mistaken beliefs ...

As an expert witness, I often am privy to conversations that targeted parents have had with their alienated children via e-mails, text messages, and sometimes even audio recordings. I am often ...

A leading expert on family rifts describes what to do when a relationship between a parent and child is on the brink of ...

When a parent loses a child it is universally recognized as a tragedy. Whether by accident or disease, the sympathy, empathy, and tears flow freely. I recall a college friend who was killed by a bus ...

Estrangement, and especially the estrangement of adult children from their parents, has been a big topic in the past few months. Oprah Winfrey invited a panel of therapists to talk about the “rising ...