ABSTRACT Custody law systems across the Anglo-West are increasingly characterised by the overt and covert use of parental alienation (syndrome) as an aid to the governance of post-separation mothers. Difficulties with care arrangements within PA(S) inflected custody law systems are often regarded as evidence of mothers’ alienating behaviours, resulting in a range of remedial, coercive and punitive censures, including losing resident parent status. I argue here that the synergistic interaction between custody law and PA(S) creates an affective burden for post-separation mothers. Drawing on the voices of mothers in contested custody cases, I show that their affective burden consists of negative emotional states for themselves and their children, emotion work in relation to these states, and court required emotion work in support of father-child relationships. The latter mitigates the risk of being found to be an alienator and losing what matters most to them – their children.

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PA(S) 影响监护法系统中分居母亲的情感负担：新西兰案例研究

摘要 英西地区的监护法体系越来越多地以公开和秘密使用父母异化（综合症）作为对分居后母亲进行治理的辅助手段。受 PA(S) 影响的监护法系统内的护理安排困难通常被视为母亲疏远行为的证据，导致一系列补救性、强制性和惩罚性的谴责，包括失去居民父母身份。我在这里认为，监护法和 PA(S) 之间的协同互动给分居后的母亲带来了情感负担。借鉴有争议的监护权案件中母亲的声音，我表明他们的情感负担包括对自己和孩子的负面情绪状态，与这些状态相关的情绪工作，法庭要求情感工作来支持父子关系。后者降低了被认定为疏远者并失去对他们来说最重要的东西——他们的孩子的风险。