NEW!! UPDATED AND EXPANDED VERSION as published in 14 Child and Family Law Quarterly 381 (2002) Professor Carol Bruch's Parental Alienation Syndrome and Alienated Children -- getting it wrong in child custody cases download pdf file 249KB Contains citations to additional English authorities. In particular, see pages 390-392

NOTE: Richard Gardner wrote a purported "rebuttal" to Prof. Bruch's article, which can be found on his website here (in German) and here (in English.) Prof. Bruch replies here (in German), or here (in English.)

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The American Bar Association's Family Law Section has published the definitive article on the so-called "parental alienation syndrome" and its misuse in child custody cases in the Fall 2001 issue of the Family Law Quarterly.

AND HERE IT IS: Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation: Getting It Wrong in Child Custody Cases download pdf file 134KB

Reprints of Professor Bruch's article also can be purchased by calling the ABA at 1-800-285-2221, or by emailing tarvett@staff.abanet.org.

The ABA website is at http://www.abanet.org/family/

Kudos to Carol Bruch for writing this; laurels to Linda Elrod for publishing it.  Thank you!

liz