Psychical health and life quality of former alienated children in comparison with former children from separated parents or whose parents remained together. A quantitative and a qualitative study

Parental separation is a major stressor during childhood that – combined with different levels of parental conflict – can lead to development difficulties in children – and thus raise the chance of having a worse life quality and poorer health during childhood as peers whose parents remained together – at least statistically. Certainly, there might be differences at an individual level, as separation does not mean automatically conflict or damage, and parents remaining together does not automatically mean that there is no parental conflict or any possibility of parental damage to the children. Children that suffered from parental alienation end by growing up without one of their parents. Mostly they are brought to their rejection. This deep conflict of loyality should augment the damage