The Alienation
When Your Children Become Strangers
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Published by: Shady Lane Books
Release Date: October 2026
ISBN13: 978-1-969679-55-1
Overview
What happens when the children you love most begin to see you as the enemy?
One day, your child is laughing in your kitchen, reaching for your hand, begging for one more bedtime story.
Then, slowly, something changes.
The calls stop. The warmth disappears. False accusations emerge. And the child you would do anything to protect begins pulling away, becoming someone you barely recognize.
In The Alienation: When Your Children Become Strangers, Scott Stockton shares a raw and deeply personal account of parental alienation, high-conflict divorce, and the psychological forces that can fracture families from within.
After a painful divorce, Stockton maintained a loving relationship with his daughters for years. But as adolescence arrived, so did emotional manipulation, false narratives, and a devastating estrangement that changed his life forever.
Blending personal experience with psychological research, family systems theory, and reflections on faith and modern parenting, The Alienation explores:
- Parental alienation and high-conflict divorce
- Narcissism, enmeshment, and dysfunctional family systems
- Why children can become bonded to harmful environments
- The failures of the family court system
- Protecting healthy parent-child relationships
- Healing, resilience, faith, and rebuilding after loss
Heartbreaking, provocative, and ultimately hopeful, The Alienation is both a cautionary tale and a lifeline for parents trying to understand how a loving bond can be broken and whether it can ever be rebuilt.
Read The Alienation and discover the strength to keep fighting for connection.