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Custody determinations should be based on the assessment of each parent's fitness and potential for abuse or alienation.
5 people · 4 episodes
Jim claims that Pam is mentally unfit to have custody of their daughter and he should be the one to have full custody.
“Pam is mentally unstable. Pam shouldn't be allowed to be around children at all.”
Dr. Phil · Apr 2025 · 1 episode · 289K views on this topicPam argues that Jim is abusive and should not have sole custody of their daughter.
“Pam says to fully understand why she does not want Jim to get sole custody of their daughter, she says, "You need to know how abusive he is."”
Dr. Phil · Apr 2025 · 1 episode · 289K views on this topicDaniel claims his daughters live with him because their mother is unfit and they choose to run away from her.
“Been living with me exclusively since last year, Mother's Day. She kicked them out and they're here to testify.”
Dr. Phil · Jun 2026 · 1 episode · 82K views on this topicDoug 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.”
Dr. Phil · Oct 2025 · 0 episodes · 0 views on this topicBrandon asserts he has full custody of his daughter because Danielle is an unfit mother who intentionally interferes with his ability to co-parent.
“No, that's absolutely not true. I have custody of our daughter because Danielle is an unfit mother. And she continuously interfered and denied a relationship between me and my daughter.”
Dr. Phil · May 2026 · 0 episodes · 0 views on this topicOne parent often intentionally sabotages the relationship between the child and the other parent to gain control.
4 people · 3 episodes
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.”
Dr. Phil · Jun 2025 · 1 episode · 711K views on this topicMiguel claims that he is unable to visit his daughter because her mother and grandmother threaten and obstruct his access.
“One of the main reasons I wasn't able to visit Ellie was because around March, Candace's mother had sent me some seriously nasty text messages telling me that under no circumstances, as long as my daughter is under her roof, that I will ever see my little girl.”
Dr. Phil · Jun 2026 · 1 episode · 113K views on this topicParental 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.”
Triggernometry · Jan 2023 · 1 episode · 57K views on this topicTodd claims that his ex-wife actively prevents him from seeing his children to make his life difficult.
“You know darn well that you have kept them away from me for as much time as you possibly can.”
Dr. Phil · Jun 2026 · 0 episodes · 0 views on this topicCustody should prioritize the current stable environment of the child to avoid unnecessary disruption.
2 people · 1 episode
Barbara believes that Ethan should remain with her for the time being rather than being uprooted again after achieving stability in her care.
“One of my concerns is uprooting him out of a stable environment after after he got shuffled around all last year. He's finally he's finally got friends. He's settled in his school.”
Dr. Phil · Jul 2025 · 1 episode · 439K views on this topicNicole believes that her son Ethan's best environment is with her as his biological mother rather than with his grandparents.
“Ethan's best place to be is with me, his biological mom, not with his grandparents.”
Dr. Phil · Jul 2025 · 0 episodes · 0 views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
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