Nobody wants to deal with the traumas of a marriage break up, child custody battles, maintenance and alimony issues, nor the stigma of divorce which takes its toll on the mental and physical health apart from expensive and cumbersome legal procedures. Despite awareness of the fact that there are numerous instances of gender bias, rise in false cases ending in jail or suicide, the number of live-in relationships have gone up. It’s the result of seeking easy alternatives.
Parental Alienation is an internationally recognized form of parental psychological abuse. Richard A Gardner, an American child psychiatrist, after making several observations found a childhood disorder seen exclusively in child-custody cases. He coined this childhood disorder by the term Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) in 1985. He stated that he had