I've been studying this for the past 13 years. I have an online community of survivors, of 250,000 people around the world, so I have a big overview of this issue. Reunification camps and the pseudo-concept of alienation are of special interest to me. It's a continuation of power and control. When a relationship ends, we encourage domestic abuse survivors to leave the relationship. When they do, the abuser's need for power and control doesn't just dissipate. The children become the pawns in that. It is the abuser's way to maintain power and control.
Research shows that when a mother alleges abuse, they are more likely to lose custody, as we've talked about here. The father—typically, a lot of times it's the father—doesn't have a relationship with the kids. The kids are afraid of him because of abuse, or there was no bond to begin with. As soon as that happens, going back to the “follow the money” we touched on, you then have all these pseudo-professionals. You can be a life coach and run a reunification program. You don't need a degree. They are lying in wait for these families. They specifically target families with more money, because those are the families who can pay for these services, but everybody is—