What is it like to be affected by parent-child alienation? How does it feel to have been alienated or to be alienated yourself? Here, those who have experienced it themselves, felt it themselves, have their say. They give us an insight into their experiences and feelings and describe how parent-child alienation has affected their lives.  

We would have liked to have given children a chance to speak who are themselves in a situation of alienation. The problem is that these children are not reached when they are under the influence of the alienating parent. While they themselves are still in the situation of being influenced and alienated, what they say is often not what they feel or actually need. Her words are often marked by rejection and a pronounced black and white perspective. Often they merely reflect the perspective of the alienating parent. Your feelings, on the other hand, often speak a different language.

Only later, when they have distanced themselves from the alienating parent, usually as adults, do they manage to understand what happened to them. Only then will they be able to classify, understand and articulate the feelings they had at the time. Just as they have given us a very personal insight into their feelings as an estranged child in their touching portrayals.  

To protect the persons concerned, the information about the persons is anonymized and the pictures are not authentic.