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part of human development, it can designate psychological and pathological problems to concern.
b. Parental Alienation DR. Richard A. Warshak in his journal entitled “What is Parental
Alienation?” 2013 defines the term as the state of a child being alienated from a parent. This is a common effect of divorce to the children. Divorced couples—
although not necessarily all—have a tendency of alienating the children from the “leaving” parent. Hence, it is not only the time apart which separates the children
from one parent who is leaving the house after divorce, but also the shared thoughts of the “staying” parent toward the “leaving” one.
Children undergoing the sense of parental alienation, according to Edward Kruk, Ph. D in “The Impact of Parental Alienation on Children” 2013 can be
alienated from either one or both parents, although most of them tend to have a sense of rejection toward the targeted parent.
This kind of post-divorce phenomenon is coined in http:www.healthline.com as parental alienation—the post-divorce effect where
one of the divorcees start to be more dominant than another and commonly attempt to influence the children to hate the previous partner. It causes the “staying” parent
to have the tendency of alienating the child from the “leaving” parent. This isolating attempt can be done by separating the child from the “leaving” parent physically—
doesn’t give any permission for the child to meet the parent, living at the place far from the “leaving” parent, or by alienating the child from the “leaving” parent by
telling negative thoughts about the person. It is also stated that broken-home
children tend to have a tendency of dealing with drugs or crime, but may also become an outstanding one at school or organization and society in order to show
their “existence” as “normal” children even though their parents are separated. c. Social Alienation
In modern society, alienation is undergone by many workers with different levels of position. The top levels of the organizational hierarchy are those with the
highest possibility of feeling lonely and isolated. These people might be psychologically, physically, or socially isolated from their subordinates Karp and
Yoels, 1986:204. Social alienation can also happen to the elderly, which are not able to identify
their true identity. Most societies picture them as carefree, well-dressed, and financially stable, while they in fact, may live with incurable diseases, which
become their physical and psychological burden. Alienation happens in the first place since compared to traditional world,
modern world tends to do reasoning on various kinds of things. Before urbanization and industrialization, human suffering and restrictions on life chances were
accepted as God’s will which goes naturally. However, modern societies assume these things to be no longer inevitable and natural, instead those things seem to be
the subject of human will and action Karp and Yoels, 1986:283. Hence, there are many things defined to be injustice and end up causing alienation. This
phenomenon happens most to people assuming that they have the power over everything happening in the world.