PARENTAL ALIENATION

Parental alienation is an increasingly common phenomenon. Imagine a parent who brainwashes a child. This produces negative effects in the child's life in the long term. Child alienation influences and should influence court decisions. A child can become alienated from the parent who initiated the divorce. The parent who ends up spending more time with the child ends up having hostile behavior towards the other parent. The paper aims to present the gravity and complexity of the phenomenon of parental alienation, to underline the consequences of this type of emotional abuse, as well as to highlight the applicable national and international legislative framework, while also offering solutions for preventing and combating this destructive behavior for the best interests of the child.