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===Alienated children===
Alienated children reject a parent without guilt or sadness and without an objectively reasonable <span class="noglossary">cause</span>. Their views of the alienated parent are grossly distorted and exaggerated.
Alienation is most easily defined as the complete breakdown of a child's relationship with a parent as a result of a parent's efforts to turn a child against the other parent. Typically, alienation is only a problem when the parents are involved in extremely bitter and heated litigation as a result. Not every case of high conflict litigation involves alienation, but it does happen. A 1991 study by the American Bar Association found indications of alienation in the majority of 700 high conflict divorce cases studied over 12 years.