Department of Psychology, Colorado State University.
School of Social Work, University of British Columbia.
Psychol Bull. 2018 Dec;144(12):1275-1299. doi: 10.1037/bul0000175.
Despite affecting millions of families around the world, parental alienation has been largely unacknowledged or denied by legal and health professionals as a form of family violence. This complex form of aggression entails a parental figure engaging in the long-term use of a variety of aggressive behaviors to harm the relationship between their child and another parental figure, and/or to hurt the other parental figure directly because of their relationship with their child. Like other forms of family violence, parental alienation has serious and negative consequences for family members, yet victims are often blamed for their experience. In order to be recognized as a form of family violence and to secure protection for victims under law and social policies, a formal review and comparison of parental alienating behaviors and outcomes to child abuse and intimate partner violence has been sorely needed. The result of this review highlights how the societal denial of parental alienation has been like the historical social and political denial or other forms of abuse in many parts of the world (e.g., child abuse a century ago). Reframing parental alienating behaviors as a form of family violence also serves as a desperate call to action for social scientists to focus more theoretical and empirical attention to this topic. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
尽管父母一方与子女关系疏远影响了全世界数以百万计的家庭，但法律和卫生专业人员大都没有承认或否认这种现象是一种家庭暴力形式。这种复杂形式的侵犯包括父母一方长期使用各种侵犯行为，破坏其子女与其另一方父母的关系，和/或因与子女的关系而直接伤害另一方父母。与其他形式的家庭暴力一样，父母一方与子女关系疏远给家庭成员带来严重和消极的后果，但受害者往往因此而受到指责。为了将其视为一种家庭暴力形式，并根据法律和社会政策为受害者提供保护，非常需要对父母一方疏远子女的行为及其后果与虐待儿童和亲密伴侣暴力进行正式审查和比较。这项审查的结果突出表明，社会否认父母一方与子女关系疏远的现象与世界许多地方（例如，一个世纪前的虐待儿童行为）在历史上对社会和政治的否认或其他形式的虐待是多么相似。将父母一方疏远子女的行为重新定义为一种家庭暴力形式，也迫切呼吁社会科学家更加关注这一主题，投入更多的理论和实证关注。（APA，2018）
