Dr. Phil warns that parental alienation will ultimately cause children to turn against both parents once they reach an age of independent thought.

“The parent that alienates a child from the other parent ultimately winds up being on the very short end of the stick because these kids get smart enough start thinking for themselves and they're going to look around and said, "Why did you do this this way?"”

The grandmother claims that the mother is intentionally turning the grandson against her through brainwashing.

“Rita claims that her daughter Lisa is alienating her from her 13-year-old grandson Cole and is brainwashing Cole to hate her.”

Parental alienation is a form of child abuse that involves intentionally manipulating children to reject a previously loved parent.

“And parental alienation is is aka child abuse. It's also known as turning the children. It's an umbrella term um that details a series of actions, if you will, or behaviors with the malicious intent to have the children hate a once beloved parent.”

Doug claims that Beverly is responsible for alienating herself from the children by failing to see them and exhibiting abusive behavior.

“Beverly alienates herself from her own children. She skips on even coming to see the children.”