Alienação parental e as falsas denúncias de abuso sexual no âmbito familiar

Abstract

Parental alienation is a reality experienced by many children and adolescents in the context of family conflict, especially in cases of litigious divorce and custody dispute, in which there is the alienator, who wants to repel the other parent of family life, and the alienated, who suffers from the shaking of the affective bond with the child. One of the means that the alienating parent uses in an attempt to repel the alienated parent is the denunciation of sexual abuse, generating disastrous implications for the psychological state of the child as a developing person, whose stage is that of identity formation. False allegations of sexual abuse are often based on narratives induced by the alienator through false memories implanted in the child. Thus, false memories, constructed through suggestion, induction, and constant repetition to make the child internalize the information and believe it as if it were true, have the ability to keep the alienated from the child away for reasons of revenge and disaffection. In this context, parental alienation is a form of psychological violence against the child and against the alienated parent, which, in turn, supports highly damaging consequences, such as the damage to reputation before society and, above all, the priceless damage to the relationship. familiar. To clarify the issue, it will be necessary to examine the legal, doctrinal and jurisprudential aspects of parental alienation and false allegations of sexual abuse, with a view to differentiating the actual occurrence of sexual abuse from an episode of parental alienation.