Abstract Allegations of Parental Alienation (PA), the systematic disparaging of one parent by the other parent aimed at alienating their child’s affections, as a basis for child custody decisions are highly controversial. Claims of parental hostility or allegations of child sexual abuse in custody cases may trigger concerns about PA. Family court professionals (N = 280) rated young children’s accuracy of report (e.g., suggestibility, honesty) in general and also read three custody scenarios varying as to whether or not they included allegations of parental hostility or child sexual abuse, or no such allegations. For each scenario, the alleged alienating parent’s gender was experimentally varied between subjects. Participants rated the likelihood that each case involved PA. For the scenario that included allegations of child sexual abuse, professionals who viewed young children as more inaccurate reporters or who read about the mother (rather than a father) as the alleged alienator were more likely to rate the scenario as involving PA. For the scenario that described parental hostility but no child sexual abuse allegations, professionals who were older or female were more likely to judge the scenario as involving parental alienation when a mother (rather than a father) was the alleged alienator, whereas there were no significant predictors of responses to the no-allegation scenarios. Findings are discussed in relation to the difficult task of evaluating custody cases for PA when parental hostility or child sexual abuse is alleged.

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当指控父母敌对或儿童性虐待时，关于父母疏远的判决

摘要 父母异化 (PA) 的指控，即父母一方系统地贬低另一方旨在疏远子女的感情，作为子女监护权决定的依据，是极具争议的。在监护案件中，父母敌意或儿童性虐待的指控可能会引发对 PA 的担忧。家庭法庭专业人员（N = 280）总体上对幼儿报告的准确性（例如，易受暗示性、诚实性）进行了评级，并且还阅读了三种不同的监护权情景，以确定它们是否包括父母敌对或儿童性虐待的指控，或没有此类指控. 对于每种情况，所谓的疏远父母的性别在受试者之间进行了实验性的改变。参与者对每个案例涉及 PA 的可能性进行了评分。对于包含儿童性虐待指控的场景，将幼儿视为更不准确的记者或将母亲（而不是父亲）视为所谓的疏远者的专业人士更有可能将这种情况评为涉及 PA。对于描述父母敌意但没有儿童性虐待指控的情景，当母亲（而不是父亲）是所谓的异化者时，年龄较大或女性的专业人士更有可能判断该情景涉及父母异化，而没有显着的对无指控情景的反应的预测因素。当指控父母敌对或儿童性虐待时，就评估 PA 监护权案件的艰巨任务对调查结果进行了讨论。