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→Contemporary perspectives on alienated children
In their 2001 article "[http://jkseminars.com/pdf/AlienatedChildArt.pdf The Alienated Child]", published in Family Court Review, Drs. Kelly and Johnston propose a reformulation of Dr. Gardner's theory that would focus primarily on the alienated child rather than on the alienating parent, on the principle that there are many different factors that can cause a child to be alienated from a parent apart from a malicious parent.
Drs. Kelly and Johnston view a child's relationships with his or her parents as falling on a spectrum running that runs from the child wanting a positive relationship with both parents to the child being pathologically alienated from one parent:
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