Emotional Abuse Is a Silent Epidemic — Especially in Parental Alienation Emotional abuse is one of the most harmful yet invisible forms of trauma a child can experience. When it takes the shape of parental alienation, where one parent manipulates a child into rejecting the other, it leaves long-lasting wounds that shape everything from identity…
It is important to recognize that parental alienation is often linked to narcissistic abuse. One of the most crucial steps in healing from parental alienation is reframing it as domestic abuse.