But, Indian citizens still have to join this movement on behalf of children since the children deserve the love and affection of both the parents as divorce rates are rapidly increasing in urban India. Lakhs of cases are pending in various courts in India and Bangaluru alone has more than 20,000 cases pending disposal in the family courts. There are more than 5,00,000 cases pending across the country.

Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS)

Parental Alienation Syndrome is a conflicted family dynamic that draws a child into siding with one parent changing a previously good relationship with a now rejected parent in order to settle old scores of ex-spouses. The child may become preoccupied with criticisms of the rejected parent, which are normally inconsequential, exaggerated or unfounded in reality.  

A parent may understand the theoretical importance of the other parent in the life of the child, but believes his or her case is the exception and most of the time child agrees. 

Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) and Reactive Attachment Disorders warp a child’s overall development. Research studies by eminent scientists have shown that there is a tendency for such children to become criminals in their adulthood. As per the research done by the multiple organizations across the globe, it reveals shocking information that children deprived of their Father’s care are:

•Five times more likely to commit suicide

•Nine times more likely to drop out of high school

•14 times more likely to end up as rapist

•20 times more likely to end up in prison/ drug addicts

How To Save Children 

1. Government should declare Parent Alienation as a crime and child abuse, Prosecute such parents or Guardians in order to protect the children who have become pawns in the hands of custodial parents who try to alienate the non custodial parent.

2. State Commission for protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) should accept complaints filed and investigate with welfare check and complaints received by parents in cases pertaining to parental alienation and take necessary action and file report to family courts if the matter is pending in courts. 

3. Ban child interviews when the children are of tender age as it is found that custodial parent usually brainwashes the mind of the child against the non-custodial parent and the child will be in a trauma to select any one parent since it loves both.

4. Make shared parenting mandatory and all child custody cases should be disposed off after trial within six months of application in these courts in the best interest of children and speedy justice and in the spirit of united nation convention of child rights where India is also a signatory.

5. Allocate special custody courts working in evenings and on holidays for long pending cases, as nobody can bring back the childhood and repair the trauma due to delayed justice.

6. A separate Union Ministry for Children and to de-link the same from the present Women and Child Development ministry, since their objectives are different child rights issues are being ignored by the WCD since there is no proper studies in India done on PAS or Child Welfare Guidelines.

7. Punish people who misuse dowry law, domestic violence and rape laws in order to separate father and his family with idea of delinking the paternal family to bestow love and affection as children come first under any circumstances. 

Children’s Rights Initiative For Shared Parenting, popularly called as ‘CRISP’, an NGO, dedicated to the cause of Child Rights and Shared Parenting since 2008, is run by people who recognize the serious effects of Parental Alienation of children due to single parent families on account of divorce or separation and are committed to eliminate such cruel alienation of children from the non- custodial parent due to ever increasing divorce or separation rates.