Erasing Family: Exploring Parental Alienation with Filmmaker, Ginger Gentile on Divorce & Beyond #233
This week on Divorce & Beyond, Host, Susan Guthrie speaks with documentary filmmaker, Ginger Gentile, a child of a high conflict divorce herself, about the truly heart-breaking cases of parental alienation and estrangement that cause a parent to lose contact with their child and even more heartbreaking, for a child to lose a loving parent. Alienation is a form of child abuse wherein on parent manipulates a child in order to damage that child's feelings for their other parent and can cause irreperable harm to that child. However, it remains an intractible problem for alienated parents to repair and that courts are ill-equipped to deal with. Ginger's latest film, Erasing Family, is a look within the dynamics of alienation through the eyes of the children involved and their parents, step-parents and siblings. Notably, there is hope there too as some of the children have re-established relationships with their alienated parent after years of separation. Parental alienation affects more than 22,000 families in the U.S. alone. If you or someone you know is experiencing this tragic loss, please listen to this episode. Ginger shares some helpful insights and tips for managing the unmanageable! For another episode on the topic of alienation please listen to: Parental Alienation Solutions that WORK! with Special Guest, Dorcy Pruter More About Ginger Gentile: Ginger Gentile is on a mission to save children from the trauma of high-conflict divorce. Her first film on this topic, ERASING DAD, was filmed in Argentina and resulted in joint-custody legislation being enacted. Her latest film, ERASING FAMILY, currently streaming on all major platforms, exposes the trauma children suffer when a loving parent is erased from their lives, a problem that affects 22 million families in the US alone. In her time serving as the Executive Director of the National Parents Organization in 2019 she added six new state affiliates and garnered national press attention for the Shared Parenting Report Card. Now, she is coaching parents suffering from parental alienation to help them reunite with their erased children GingerGentile.com/consulting Her program for replicating the success of reunited families will soon be a podcast, course and book. To find out more about Ginger Gentile and her film, Erasing Family, visit: https://erasingfamily.org To inquire about working with Ginger: https://gingergentile.com/consulting Follow Ginger on Social! FB Erasing Family IG @ErasingFamily Tw @ErasingFamilyTicTok @erasingfamilyFacebook.com/gingergentile ***************************************************************************** MEET OUR CREATOR AND HOST: SUSAN GUTHRIE®, ESQ., the creator and host of The Divorce and Beyond® Podcast, is nationally recognized as one of the top family law and divorce mediation attorneys in the country. Susan is a member of the Executive Council of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution and is the Founder of Divorce in a Better Way® which provides a curated selection of resources and information for those facing divorce and other life changes. Internationally renowned as one of the leading experts in online mediation, Susan created her Learn to Mediate Online® program and has trained more than 20,000 professionals in how to transition their practice online. Susan recently partnered with legal and mediation legend, Forrest "Woody" Mosten to create the Mosten Guthrie Academy which provides gold standard, fully online training for mediation and collaborative professionals at all stages of their career. ****************************************************************************** Remember to follow Susan Guthrie and THE DIVORCE AND BEYOND PODCAST on social media for updates and inside tips and information: Susan Guthrie on Facebook @susanguthrieesqSusan on Instagram @susanguthrieesq @divorceandbeyondSusan on Twitter @guthrielaw If you want to see the video version of the podcast episodes they are