Divorce Poison: Protecting the Parent-Child Bond from a Vindictive Ex

The book I didn't know I was searching for...
If you are a divorced parent, READ THIS BOOK. If you are experiencing a high-conflict divorce that especially involves blocked access to your children, this book is invaluable. Like many other readers, I felt this book was written specifically about me and my circumstances. Dr. Warshak accurately and vividly describes the heartbreaking and all too frequent scenerio which occurs when a parent is alienated from his or her children by a contemptuous ex-spouse. The book is well written and authoritative; born of more than 25 years of Dr. Warshak's personal, clinical experience in family therapy, divorce and custody issues. I wish I had known of it sooner- I would have bought a copy the first day it was published. My highest praise and thanks to Dr. Warshak for illuminating a dark path I travel.

It all makes sense now!
This is a behind the scenes eye opener for what happens to children after divorce. If you know of a child after divorce, please get informed to save the child from being scarred for life by reading DIVORCE POISON! THANK YOU Dr. Warshak!!!

This is the manual!
It happened to me. It may happen to you too. I wish I would have read this book before my ex was able to inject her divorce poison into my two sweet daughters. It has taken over 0,000 and 8 years to demonstrate to the courts and the 'experts' what was done to the children and to begin to get one of my children 'de-programmed.'

Get this book if you have a difficult custody matter
This book is full of good advice if you have a high level of conflict with custody matters. A must read for parents trying to understand, navigate, and come up with new ideas for dealing with difficult custody issues. -Corinne Isberner

Success Story
Dr. Warshak's book has helped tremendously. When my daughter went to spend a week of vacation with her father, I was served with a motion to modify custody and he refused to return her to my care, saying I was abusive. A month later after a temporary custody hearing and an 'unfounded and retaliatory complaint' ruling by Child Protective Services (for the 3rd time in 6 years) she came home despondent, rude, hateful and deceitful. It was as if someone turned a switch off.

Following Dr. Warshak's advice, I put together photo albums of all of the fun times we'd had over the past 6 years (the time I've had custody). I left them on the coffee table with an off-hand comment that I'd finally gotten around to putting the photos together. I had a friend come over and was flipping through the pictures, remembering vacations, sleep-overs, holidays. I left them there for her friends to see when they came over (who were perplexed by her sudden change in attitude). Whenever I saw something on TV that reminded me of a happy time, I'd speak of it. When I could tie in brainwashing references to movies and TV shows, I did. I remained carefully consistent, still requiring household rules to be followed but gently.

It has been seven months now and I still don't get an "I love you, too" at bedtime but I got my first voluntary, spontaneous hug the other day. Who would have thought an act I took for granted a year ago would make my day now. But the tide has turned because I know what to do to demonstrate to her I'm not a monster and I'm still the same Mom I was all along. So I'm calling it a success even though I haven't gotten the "I love you" yet.

Thanks for understanding that this is REAL. And it's hurtful to the child, not just the other parent.