Do estranged parents have the legal right to be loved by their kids?
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
“Reunification therapy” is a practice designed to rebuild connection between an estranged parent and their child.
It's often court ordered -- and forces the child to spend time with the estranged parent and cut off contact with the preferred parent entirely.
Forced reunification -- but at what cost?
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| 0:46.7 | Ansley Younger was eight years old when her parents split. |
| 0:50.3 | The divorce was messy. |
| 0:52.3 | At first, her parents were able to agree on custody terms. |
| 0:56.0 | Ansley and her younger brother would spend a week at their dads |
| 0:58.7 | and then the next at their moms. |
| 1:01.6 | We started getting really frustrated with my mom |
| 1:04.5 | because she was prioritizing her life |
| 1:06.8 | and not being that emotional support that we needed. |
| 1:09.8 | Our whole entire world was crashing, |
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