It’s time to stop slapping band-aids on a broken institution. Abolish the family court, strip away the unearned immunity of judges and GALs, and give families back their autonomy, privacy, and freedom.

Parental alienation is the process by which one parent systematically turns a child against the other parent without legitimate justification. When the father is the targeted parent, the alienating mother (or, less often, another caregiver) employs a range of strategies—badmouthing, limiting contact, portraying him as unsafe, encouraging the child to spy or keep secrets, and rewarding rejection.