PARENTAL ALIENATION (~ESTRANGEMENT) BETWEEN SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS OR HOW MY CHILD IS TAUGHT TO HATE ME

There are many custody (exercise of parental authority) contexts in which alienation issues arise and need to be investigated and properly understood in order to propose some appropriate legal and psychological remedies for the whole family. What is and what is not parental alienation/~estrangement? In fact, what did the Romanian legislator want to protect – or to punish maybe? – by adopting the Law no. 123/2024? The present study aims to indicate some issues regarding: descriptors; effects; emotional child abuse; civil, criminal, custody/parental authority and therapeutic/emotional responses to parental estrangement, in order to delimit her from parental alienation also. Between myth and reality, between a kind of Scylla and another kind of Charybdis, the child is often faced with a difficult choice: mother or father. The emotional pressure to which he is subjected, sometimes accompanied by violence (verbal or physical), is used as a shield; a defence of the rights that some believe they have, regardless of whether, to obtain them, they are willing (and do so!) to step over everything[...] over the souls and the bodies of their own children. So, are we face to face with some myths or fears related to parental alienation/~estrangement? If that is so, in order to understand them, can we confirm or dispel them?