Response to “Ideology and Rhetoric Replace Science and Reason in Some Parental Alienation Literature and Advocacy

The author wrote an article, “Parental Alienation and Misinformation Proliferation,” for this Special Issue of Family Court Review, which is devoted to various aspects of parental alienation (PA). This short article is a response to the article by Milchman, Geffner, and Meier, which discussed my article and other contributions to the Special Issue. All of these articles represent an attempt by the Editors of the Special Issue to promote “dialogue” among writers who have different perspectives regarding parental alienation. In my view, this is a misguided endeavor, since the publication of cascading criminations, recriminations, and re‐recriminations simply creates confusion and consternation for the readers of Family Court Review . This new article offers an alternative approach for creating constructive dialogue among PA‐promoters and PA‐detractors, that is, convene a face‐to‐face discussion of these individuals and encourage them to write an article together in which they jointly explain their various perspectives regarding PA

Alienation · Confusion · Constructive · Ideology · Linguistics · Misinformation · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Rhetoric · Social science · Sociology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Philosophy · Psychology

• Putting Science and Reasoning Back Into the “Parental Alienation” Discussion

  Open Access•Madelyn Simring Milchman, Robert Geffner et al.•Family Court Review•2020

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