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*the parent's own psychological or psychiatric issues.
The point here is that the feelings of estranged children are based on have grown from the child's actual, lived experiences. In cases of estrangement, the child's rejection of a parent is ''reasonable'', and is an adaptive and self-protective response to the rejected parent's behaviour and their interactions with the rejected parent. The feelings of alienated children, however, are neither reasonable nor solely the result of the rejected parent's conduct.
====Alienated children====