Because she is actually there for her kids, whereas their dad was too busy having fun to parent?

“poisoning” a child is usually something MRAs whine about because they can’t be fucked to actually parent, so no, I don’t know anyone who has had that happen.

I have posted no story here. My parents are not divorced. However I have worked with children of divorce professionally and your views on this seem extremely one-side and self-serving, to the point of denying what everyone else is telling you: not having contact with a parent is not only reserved for cases of abuse or…

Most courts, once the kids reach about age 13, are less likely to force mandated visitation. Jon’s lifestyle of unemployment and sketchy behavior would probably result in a loss of mandated visitation.

Again, no. Kids don’t have to spend time with a parent if they don’t want to and if that person makes them feel uncomfortable. And they are most certainly old enough to make those decisions. My father moved out when I was 12 after he finally got caught cheating. I did not want to see him, made that known, and my mom…

I agree we don’t know the whole story. Maybe, like my cousin, the kids’ mother did encourage them to see their father - until they got old enough to realise he was a dick and said they didn’t want to spend time with him anymore. My cousin never bad-mouthed her ex or did anything to poison the kids against him. The…

My kids have no relationship with their father, and that’s on him. He can blame me if he wants, but last time he wanted to see either of them his preferred terms involved me putting a 2 year old on a train to London by herself. Yeah. No.

My kid was the same way with her father when she hit her teens. He couldn’t muster any interest in her life and as a result she didn’t want to spend time with him. He got angry and blamed me. I could only tell him, ASK her about her life. He told me he was bored with her interests, soccer, shopping, movies. I said…

No, a good parent listens to their child’s wishes and doesn't force them to see the other parent if they don't want to. My sister still has legitimate PTSD from being forced to spend weekends with her dad against her will. He's a terrible person (not physically abusive, but manipulative, emotionally abusive, and…

Kate may have encouraged, but those girls may still have refused to go see him. My mother really wanted me to have a relationship with my father, and did everything aside from forcibly making me stay she could have reasonably done. I get the major vibe from these few comments that they do not want a relationship with…

How can you possibly know that that is true for everyone? A parent does not need to be abusive to be a terrible influence on a child. My father was manipulative, selfish, irresponsible, and a habitual drinker. He hadn’t been a positive influence on my life for years when I stopped visiting. That was his fault; not…

Similar to me with our daughter. I encouraged her to talk and visit, but she chose to cut him off. He blamed me for it, but I knew in my heart that I had done everything I could. She had grown enough to see his nonsense and not want it in her life.

My father will tell anyone who will listen that my mother poisoned us against him and took us away. He’s incapable of accepting reality, which is that my mom encouraged us (and still does) to have contact with our father, despite the fact that he and the woman he remarried were horrifically abusive. My mom only…

Nope. You can decide to not have a relationship with a parent without it meaning there was abuse. That doesn’t mean the custodial parent did any “poisoning.”

Yeah, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the onus to act like an adult is not on the 15 year-old daughters but rather on the adult man complaining his daughters won’t see him in a magazine interview.

Idk I think at 15 you’re old enough to decide if you want to spend time with a non-custodial parent.

My mom is still a good parent without having to be a cheerleader for my shitty father. She never stopped me from seeing him. The only person who did that was him. Even so, when I was a kid, I loved him. But then I grew up and realized what kind of person he is. The blame for our nonexistent relationship is on him, not…

Yeah, no. Forcing a kid or coercing them to visit someone they don't want to see is not good parenting.

Yeah, my dad was this way. Then, when I was an adult who didn’t want to see him it was something else. Never anything having to do with him or his behavior or anything. Just me being a bitch just like my mom. That kind of thing.

My mother really encouraged me to see my father, and I still didn’t. He wasn’t abusing me, he just had stuff going on in his life that was hard for me to deal with and I wanted to hang out with my friends.