Parent Traps: Diane Dierks & Dr. Rick Voyles on Co-Parenting Dilemmas

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

If conflict resolution were easy, North and South Korea would no longer be at war, Princes Harry and William would be enjoying tea time together, and videos of irate plane passengers losing their God damn marbles would no longer fill our TikTok feeds. But we all know that resolving or letting go of hot blooded arguments is no easy task. Enter licensed marriage and family therapist Diane Dierks with Dr. Rick Voyles, the CEO of the Center of Dispute Solutions, and their fabulously insightful podcast “Co-Parent Dilemmas,” which aims to provide practical solutions to families struggling with co-parenting.

We’re lucky to have these two experienced smarties on the show with us to discuss a specific and controversial topic: what some refer to as “the alienating parent,” which relates heavily to one of our favorite topics on this show (although least favorite things in like, “real life”), the cult of one. Now, the National Center for State Courts defines parental alienation as “a strategy whereby one parent intentionally displays to the child unjustified negativity aimed at the other parent.” But why has the term brought up some of that good ol’ conflict we mentioned amongst clinicians today, dividing those who use the term and those who refuse to? And what effects does it have on the children themselves? Tune in and learn with us…or we’re going to have our own conflict to resolve!

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0:00.0	The views and opinions expressed by a little bit quality are those of the hosts,
0:04.0	and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast.
0:08.3	Any of the fucking maizeball content provided by our guest,
0:12.0	bloggers, sponsors, or authors are of their opinion and are not attended to
0:15.2	malign any religion group club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything.
0:19.1	We're not doctors, not psychologists, and we're certainly not the AP.
0:22.2	It's associated press for those of you listening at home.
0:24.8	We're two non-experts, we found ourselves making a little podcast that people happen to like.
0:29.6	Okay.
0:30.4	Okay.
0:40.8	Hey everybody, Sarah Edmonds in here.
0:43.3	And I'm Anthony Ames, aka Nippy, Sarah's husband, and you're listening to a little bit
0:48.8	quality aka a lbc.
0:51.3	A podcast about what happens when devotion goes to the dark side.
0:54.7	We've been there and back again, a little about us, true story,
0:58.3	we met and fell in love in a cult, and then we woke up and got the hell out of dodge.
1:03.2	And the whole thing was captured in the HBO documentary series The Vow.
1:06.9	Now in its second season.
1:08.5	I also wrote about our experience in my memoir, SCART,
1:11.6	the true story of how I escaped Naxeam, the cult that bound my life.
1:15.4	Look at us, couple of married podcasters who just happened to have a weekly date night.
1:19.9	Are we interview experts and advocates and things like cult awareness and mind control?
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