Badmouthing Your Ex Hurts the Kids!
Parental alienation occurs when one parent speaks poorly or critically of the other parent in front of a child in an effort to undermine and interfere with the child’s relationship with that parent. This is a sign of the badmouthing parent’s emotional inability to separate the couple conflict and his/her own emotional needs from the needs of the child. The effects of this bad behavior vary, depending upon the child and the severity of the emotional dysfunction of the badmouth
