ABSTRACT Family court and abuse professionals have long been polarized over the use of parental alienation claims to discredit a mother alleging that the father has been abusive or is unsafe for the children. This paper reports the findings from an empirical study of ten years of U.S. cases involving abuse and alienation claims. The findings confirm that mothers’ claims of abuse, especially child physical or sexual abuse, increase their risk of losing custody, and that fathers’ cross-claims of alienation virtually double that risk. Alienation’s impact is gender-specific; fathers alleging mothers are abusive are not similarly undermined when mothers cross-claim alienation. In non-abuse cases, however, the data suggest that alienation has a more gender-neutral impact. These nuanced findings may help abuse and alienation professionals find some common ground.

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美国在涉及父母疏远和虐待指控的案件中的儿童监护结果：数据显示了什么？

摘要 长期以来，家庭法庭和虐待专业人士一直对使用父母疏离索赔来诋毁母亲声称父亲虐待或对孩子不安全的两极分化。本文报告了对涉及虐待和异化索赔的十年美国案件的实证研究结果。调查结果证实，母亲声称受到虐待，尤其是对儿童的身体或性虐待，会增加她们失去监护权的风险，而父亲对异化的交叉声称实际上使风险增加了一倍。异化的影响因性别而异；当母亲交叉要求异化时，指控母亲虐待的父亲并没有受到同样的损害。然而，在非虐待案例中，数据表明疏远具有更不分性别的影响。