Custody
Commons · Question 87528 · Tabled 3 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Rupert Lowe
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made an assessment of the (a) prevalence and (b) potential impact of parental alienation on fathers’ ability to maintain a relationship with their children.
Answer
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones, 11 Nov 2025
The Government does not recognise the concept of “parental alienation” syndrome and does not think it is capable of diagnosis and has therefore not undertaken an assessment of the prevalence of “parental alienation” or its impact on fathers’ ability to ma...