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===Risky responses===
"Risky" responses are legal responses to children's resistance to seeing a parent that have a chance of backfiring, and making the situation worse rather than better. These include getting views of the child reports and asking for orders that a parent be found in contempt of court, asking for orders for court costs from the favoured parent, and enforcing orders about parenting time using the peace officer enforcement provisions of the ''[[Family Law Act]]''.
====Views of the child reports====
These reports are often used to get a statement of the child's views for the purposes of the best-interests tests in sections 37 and 38 of the ''Family Law Act'' and section 16 of the ''[[Divorce Act]]''. While they're usually very helpful, in cases where a child is estranged or alienated from a parent, they're helpfulness is very limited. Reports in circumstances like these may only deepen the disruption in the child's attachment to the rejected parent as they give the child the chance to confirm and put their negative views about that parent on the record. In cases like that, views of the child reports may only serve to tell everyone what they already know and putting the child's views on the record may make it impossible for the child's relationship with the rejected parent to ever heal.
====Contempt applications and cost awards====
When someone fails to follow a court order, they are said to have "breached" the order, and breaching an order is called ''contempt of court''. One way of enforcing a court order is to make an application to court asking for an order that the other person be found in contempt for breaching a particular term of a particular order in a particular way. When contempt is proven, the court may make orders to punish the person who breached the order by issuing fines, sending them to jail, or requiring them to perform community service of some nature. (The court has lots of other choices as well.)
====Police enforcement====
===When responses fail===