UK MPs call for inquiry into use of ‘alienation’ claims in parental disputes

Concern growing that diagnoses by unregulated experts are being used to silence parents or undermine allegations of abuse

An urgent inquiry is needed into unregulated psychological experts ​being used in high conflict disputes to ​​diagnose whether one parent has attempted to ‘alienate’ ​their child ​from ​the other​, MPs have said.

Opening a debate on family court reform yesterday the MP for Coventry North West, Taiwo Owatemi, said false claims of so-called parental alienation were the “most damning aspect of our family court system”.