Reunification Therapy: When the Child Rejects the Parent
In some instances after a divorce, a child adamantly refuses or rejects any type of contact with the other parent. This refusal or rejection may be the opposite of the kind of the relationship that child and parent had when the parents were married and the child’s reasons may be logical and sensible or they may sound rehearsed and adult-like. Whatever the reason that that the child is rejecting the other parents and provided there is no substantiated child abuse (emotional, physical, or sexual), unless an intervention is made between the rejected parent and child the likelihood is that the relationship between that parent and that child will not be repaired for a very long time—if ever. Continue reading