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Protection Recast As Alienation
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A child comes back from contact and something feels off. They’re quieter than usual, suddenly clingy, angry, sick to their stomach, wetting the bed, or refusing to sleep alone. You can’t prove what it means, but you can’t ignore it either. That’s the impossible space we sit with today: the moment a parent believes their child may be unsafe, and the act of trying to protect them gets reinterpreted as parental alienation.
We talk through why this happens and why it’s so hard to untangle. A parent describing themselves as “protective” might be right, might be mistaken, or might…
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