Grandparents Experience of Being Alienated from their Grandchildren - Dr. Mandy Matthewson
This presentation will provide a summary of research into grandparents’ experience of being alienated from their grandchildren. Grandparents’ experiences of being exposed to parental alienating behaviours will be discussed. The types of losses associated with being alienated from their grandchildren will be described along with the ways grandparents cope with their experiences.
Dr Mandy Matthewson is a senior lecturer and head researcher in the Family and Interpersonal Relationships Research Lab at the University of Tasmania. She is a clinical psychologist in private practice. Dr Matthewson has worked with many families and individuals affected by parental alienating behaviours. She has published numerous peer reviewed papers on parental alienation and is co-author of the book Understanding. and Managing Parental Alienation: A guide to assessment and treatment.
Mandy Matthews, Ph. D
Mandy.matthewson@utasedu.au
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Be grateful every day for the fact that you are spared further abuse and disrespect.
Thank you Mandy for all your research and advocacy for target parents and other victims of this insidious scourge of our society that is parental alienation. Hopefully your work will help inform the courts to make better child-focussed decisions when kids are subjected to this perverse psychological abuse from the alienating parent and their enablers, and provide judges a clearer ability to identify PABs and to make the required legal interventions so that the children can be protected and reunited with the target parent and can begin to heal through appropriate therapy.
USA grandparent. This video was helpful but I have one aspect that is different. My child has gone along with the alienator and they both prevent us from seeing our 3 grandchildren. The indications seem to be that the alienator is borderline personality disorder and narcissism involved. I didn’t have to help or protect my child, but I lost my child as well as my 3 grandchildren. It is completely unbearable. I’m trying not to turn into a bitter angry human being. It’s barely working. We were never told what we did wrong. I promise you we didn’t do any thing wrong
@Sarah-il4fs
Ай бұрын
I really sympathies with you Deborah as my story sounds very much like yours. Let’s hope one day that they both see sense eh 🤞🙏
@FamiliesDividedTV
Ай бұрын
So very sorry for your situation. Dr. Edward Kruk just did a study for us on grandparents who have never seen their grandchildren. He will be presenting it to us at our fall conference. I do hope that you can attend.
@FamiliesDividedTV
Ай бұрын
@@Sarah-il4fs So very sorry for your situation. Dr. Edward Kruk just did a study for us on grandparents who have never seen their grandchildren. He will be presenting it to us at our fall conference. I do hope that you can attend.
@orangeandslinky
Ай бұрын
I promise you, they think you did. Women usually cause this.
@carolpetherick1037
Ай бұрын
I wonder if the parents of the children have ever asked themselves who it is that will step up should the parents die prematurely
I live in the uk 🇬🇧 and I’m unable to see any of my 6 grandchildren.😢 The justice system is the same here, we are unable to do anything about it. It’s heartbreaking 💔 especially when there’s false promises to me and my grandchildren to see each other, but that day never comes.
@FamiliesDividedTV
Ай бұрын
So very sorry for your situation. Dr. Edward Kruk just did a study for us on grandparents who have never seen their grandchildren. He will be presenting it to us at our fall conference. I do hope that you can attend.
@valeriefarragher
Ай бұрын
I live in the UK too... I'm in the North west
@orangeandslinky
Ай бұрын
As soon as you stop living a MY, MINE life and change to a OUR, US, WE life, nothing will change. MY grandkids? No, they are not YOUR grandkids. When you remove MY with OUR and make sure the father is not only in the home but head of it, you have NO FAMILY at all. Your kids know this. They are trying to not repeat what you did to the father of the home.
@Sarah-il4fs
Ай бұрын
@@valeriefarragher in Stafford Valerie. 👍
@Sarah-il4fs
Ай бұрын
@@orangeandslinky sorry i don’t quite understand 🤷🏻♀️
California here. Dealt with PA (from my ex husband) raising my kids and now my grown kids are Alienating me from their kids. One doesn’t let me see them at all the other only lets me see them on their terms which is rarely and only when they need a sitter. My daughter’s oldest child is now unfortunately doing the same to her and has moved out and lives with the other grandparents now. So she claims she’s afraid her younger ones would want to live with me some day cause they love me so Much thus she has to now limit my time with them.
I haven't seen my adult child and my 3 grandkids since October. I missed birthday, Christmas, thanksgiving, mother's day. Oh, and I had COVID twice and 😮a hip replacement. Not a peep from my only child.😢
@FamiliesDividedTV
Ай бұрын
So sorry for your situation. I do hope our videos help you.
Alienating behaviors begin during pregnancy, after birth and escalate after that with separation and control concerning grandchild info and contact. Especially with covert passive aggressive borderline malignant narcissist personality disorder. There was little contact as children grew into double digits and none now during and after divorce. Heartbreaking for grands (but unaware for now) and gparent.
This describes @GinnylynCella an alienating mother