Parentectomy: A Narrative Ethnography of 30 Cases of Parental Alienation and What to Do About It — Hardcover

Kids Come Last in Family Law. This Book Demands That Change.

When parents separate and divorce, the family law system is supposed to protect children. Too often, it does the opposite — enabling one parent to systematically erase the other from a child's life, measured not in a child's wellbeing, but in billable hours.

Parentectomy by Dr. Christine Giancarlo is a landmark work of narrative ethnography grounded in peer-reviewed research. Based on her study Kids Come Last: The Effect of Family Law Involvement in Parental Alienation, this 582-page hardcover tells the stories of thirty loving, capable, and dependable parents who were nonetheless removed from their children's lives — in their own voices, with unflinching honesty.

It is also Dr. Giancarlo's own journey through the devastation of parental alienation — and her urgent, evidence-based call for a more equitable and just model of child protection.

What This Book Covers

• 30 firsthand narratives of parental alienation from loving, capable parents across diverse circumstances
• The role of the family law system in enabling and perpetuating parental alienation
• The psychological, emotional, and social impact on children and targeted parents
• A peer-reviewed research foundation that gives these stories scientific weight
• A proposed model for eliminating parental alienation as a form of child abuse — with an urgent plea for its implementation

Who This Book Is For

Targeted parents, family law attorneys, judges, policymakers, social workers, researchers, child advocates, and anyone who believes children deserve both parents — and a system that actually puts them first.

Book Details

• Author: Christine Giancarlo, PhD
• Pages: 582
• Format: Hardcover
• Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 1.44 IN
• Publication Date: December 26, 2018
• ISBN/Barcode: 9780228808060

Knowledge for the mind. Grace for the soul.