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all, if a child doesn’t want to see a good parent, there has to be a good reason for it, right?
Judges and decision makers sometimes appreciate reasonably strict parenting and sometimes they don't. In an environment where children get their own advocates who support whatever their wards want including living with a parent who lets them stay up until three in the morning playing multiplayer video games on a school night ("It's their way of socializing") the concept of parenting with high expectations can be lost to the notion that kids going through a divorce should be given leeway because life is tougher for them to begin with. And if kids don’t want to visit with a a parent that is too strict maybe they will come around. They don’t.
Since we are talking about causes and not solutions (that comes in the second module) the point of emphasis here is that this is a pathway to parental rejection and it is not alienation.
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