I'm here to talk about the connection between the parental alienation concept and coercive behaviour as part of the discussion on the criminalization of coercive behaviour.
Parental alienation is a hypothetical phenomenon whose proponents believe that children who want to avoid a parent have often been persuaded by the preferred parent to take that attitude. They propose that children alleged to have been alienated must be separated by a court order from their preferred parent, subjected to reunification therapies and put in the custody of the avoided parent.
Proponents of the parental alienation system have, over the last several years—