De facto parental alienation, aka custody and access games, has been going on since courts began allowing ex-spouses to up stakes and move the children out of r

De facto parental alienation, aka custody and access games, has been going on since courts began allowing ex-spouses to up stakes and move the children out of reach of the other parent - as happened to me as a child over half a century ago. Utterly ignored, especially by the courts, is the child's emotional and developmental need to grow up with both parents. Equal time with both parents allows children to grow up and learn that parents are imperfect people who are doing their best in the circumstances they have been put in. My late mother still carries unremitting blame for enabling an alcoholic PTSD afflicted stepfather from hell to blight my life - all while claiming she was doing the right thing. There's nothing wrong with the family court system that a tac nuke couldn't fix.