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My two teenagers refused to see me after the separation. They repeated phrases word-for-word that I knew came from their mother. When I raised concerns about parental alienation, the family consultant said the children were old enough to make their own decisions.
No one investigated why children who had a loving relationship with me for 14 years suddenly wanted nothing to do with me within weeks of separation. The court accepted their stated wishes at face value.
I have not seen my children in three years now. They are adults and still will not speak to me. I have been told by professionals that repairing our relationship will take years of therapy—therapy I cannot compel them to attend.
The family court system failed to protect my relationship with my children. By treating their expressed wishes as autonomous rather than potentially influenced, they rubber-stamped alienation.