With National Parental Alienation Awareness Day falling this week, two Alabama mayors once again made national news by declaring this week, April 23-29, National Parental Alienation Prevention Week – and wouldn’t it be wonderful if this could be the last Parental Alienation Prevention Week? Then, we could celebrate a much more joyous occasion, National Happy Children Week, perhaps.
What is “Parental Alienation?” Imagine two loving parents, but they don’t get along, and they divorce. Sometimes, a child who previously loved the parent now turns against him or her, and professes to hate the parent. We’ve all seen this, unfortunately.
We must protect children from the brainwashing that produces this tragic result, which often has lifelong consequences. With that in mind, I’d like to extend a big thank you to Mayor Woody Jacobs of Cullman, Mayor Hollie Cost of Montevallo and the Alabama Family Rights Association for bringing attention to the issue and its consequences for children, the innocent victims.