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This is normal; it happens all the time. It can become problematic when a child's preference for a parent or a parent's home — or, to put it the other way, a child's dislike of a parent or a parent's home — results in the child not wanting to spend time with a parent. Left unchecked, a child's dislike of a parent can grow into a complete, sometimes long-lasting, breakdown in their relationship with that parent.
In this section, we'll talk about the parent a child prefers to spend time with as the ''favoured parent'', as the ''preferred parent'' or just as the ''parent the child prefers to spend time with''. We'll talk about the other parent as the ''rejected parent'', or as the ''parent the child resists seeing'' and similar terms.
===When children resist spending time with a parent===