Letters examine concerns that parental-alienation claims can be misused in family-court custody disputes.
Readers respond to an article about a mother who feels let down by the family courts Hannah Summers’ article raises disturbing concerns about the misuse of parental alienation allegations in family courts ( ‘Just like that, I lost my girls’: the mother who feels betrayed by the family courts, 29 September ). However, I believe that it would benefit from a clearer distinction between the discredited theory of “parental alienation syndrome” (PAS) and genuine, demonstrable alienating behaviour. PA…