Parental Alienation Awareness Day is Monday

Parental Alienation Awareness Day is Monday. Countries throughout the world, including the United States, recognize Parental Alienation Day every year on April 25.

Parental alienation is also known as Hostile Aggressive Parenting. It’s a behavior by a parent or an adult a child trusts such as a grandmother, father, mother, aunt or uncle regardless if it’s intentional or unintentional that could create alienation in the relationship between a child and adult.

Parental alienation can be mild and temporary or extreme and ongoing. Most researchers believe whenever a child feels alienated from their trusted adult it can be harmful to the child’s emotional and mental health. Extreme, obsessive and ongoing parental alienation can cause serious psychological damage to children extending into adulthood.

Parental alienation focuss on the parents’ behavior as opposed to Parental Alienated Syndrome, which focuses on the child’s condition.

Parental Alienation Syndrome is described as “a disturbance in which children are preoccupied with deprecation and criticism of a parent-denigration that is unjustified and/or exaggerated.”

Advocates of parental alienation awareness say it’s important to recognize and stop harmful behaviors of adults to prevent symptoms from developing in children and before the behavior escalates to parental abduction or parental homicide.

The first Parental Alienation Awareness Day website was launched in December, 2005. The first Parental Alienation Awareness Day was held in April, 2006.

Parental Alienation Awareness Day is also known as Bubbles of Love Day so it can be viewed more positively by the public and enable children to also participate in the awareness effort.

As part of Parental Alienation Awareness Day on Bubbles of Love Day on Monday, children — and adults — are encouraged to blow bubbles for at least 10 minutes in honor of all children who should be allowed to love and be loved by their trusted adults without fear and guilt.

For more information on how to become involved with the awareness effort when it comes to Parental Alienation Awareness Day, visit paawarenessday.com