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Family

Aug. 4, 2022

The truth about parental alienation

If a targeted parent tells you all of the horrible things their children are saying to them, and you start thinking, “If the kids are saying it, it must be true,” remember, in cases of Parental Alienation, things are not always what they seem.

Ron Berglas

Mediator
Southern California Family Mediation

Ron Berglas mediates for Southern California Family Mediation, the Center for Conflict Resolution of Los Angeles, United ADR the Riverside Community Action Partnership, and the Civil Rights Division of the Dispute Resolution Department for the State of California. He is also an active member of the Southern California Mediation Association and owns and is the Chief Operating Officer of Magnum Mediation (909-283-3991).

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I stood in front of my children's bedroom door with my five-year-old daughter kicking my ankles repeatedly and screaming, "I wish you were dead!", while my seven-year-old son kept running head-first into my stomach while shouting, "I want to go to mom!" I wondered whether anyone would believe that, just one week prior, they were playing happily in that same room. The only difference now was that two days earlier, I had won the right in court to pick my kids up fro...

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