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Why did you lie?
What did (the other parent) tell you to say?
This, in turn causes more motivation to avoid another visit like this so the next time the child says he won't go anymore. He never wants to see that parent again.
Is this alienation? No. The preferred parent had no independent intent to cut off contact. The child simply liked it better there and acted opportunistically.
The result of negative reinforcement is more frequency of rejection so as not to experience the less pleasant environment, then the questioning and so on.
The preferred parent, by asking questions suggests scenarios that increase the motivation to avoid. The child is suggestible and so is the mother, even if the child has never made a complaint like that before.
At the pace the already overwhelmed and overloaded court operates at, mechanisms for getting to the bottom of the child's statements to the mother could take weeks or months. By that time the child's behavior has been reinforced multiple times and in order to continue avoiding the child will say things designed to aid the avoidance.
Even in a few short months negatively reinforcing a child's refusal to visit can result in a permanent estrangement.
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