Dennis Prager Quotes

A decent person does not alienate children from a parent, no matter how angry they are at the parent for the divorce. It's unfair to the children, and it's unfair to the other human being

I do think that the badmouthing and alienating of a child from a parent is one of the few unforgivable sins. I do think those people will have to answer to God who will say, “You allowed your anger to destroy the relationship of your child to the other parent? Isn't that why I gave you a conscience?

Using kids as pawns in a divorce is awful.

I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation.

My biggest grouse since the time I filed for divorce has been that when all the drama unfolded, the children were made pawns. That should never be the case. You never know how it affects them.

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand.

Divorce is something I think that children feel particularly hard and what's sad about a lot of divorces, and certainly about my divorce, is that absent fathers who really want to play a part in their children's lives but don't live there, they have a pretty tough time.

In true, narcissistic fashion, when my father was diagnosed as a narcissist, he called us all up individually to tell us, and he did it with true pride.

Badmouthing your ex-spouse rips the child apart

When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

I found criminal clients easy and matrimonial clients hard. Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children to hurt each other in beastly ways. Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.

The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion her husband is not; the parents who urge their children into accomplishments as status symbols-all these and many more are ways of subordinating a child's authentic self to a parent s needs.

When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.

You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.

I didn’t mean now,” he protested. “I’m not going to raise the child. I’m having enough trouble with Rachel.

The stories I would hear from men who were going through divorces and in child custody battles, the lies their wives told about them being predators, that they had fondled or abused the children, and these guys didn't know what to do. It wasn't true. They had no idea how to combat it. And I said, "A large part of this is modern feminism. You've gotta understand it."

For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another.

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.