If the court's goal is to facilitate a loving relationship with both parents and maximize the children's healthy adjustment, we all need to learn more about how to protect children, stop abuse, and prevent alienation. We must not make parental alienation a political football or another forum for the battle of the parents. Instead, parents, mental health professionals, courts, attorneys, and parent advocacy groups must support everyone's efforts to learn more about how to stop victimizing our children. After all, this is what all if this is about. While courts and legislators are trying to encourage parent's equality in parenting, the term visitation still delegates the non-custodial parent to a lesser or interior status.
Words are important because they evoke strong feelings.
These terms put both parents more on an equal status. Parenting time is used in my book due out in September. I have been getting a tremendous response with e-mail. I was even told that PAS is a problem in Turkey. Unfortunately, I don't.