April 15 • 8PM ET

Dr. Joshua Coleman speaks with Dr. Colleen Murray about his book, "Rules of Estrangement".

Labeled a silent epidemic by a growing number of therapists and researchers, estrangement is one of the most disorienting and painful experiences of a parent's life. Popular opinion typically tells a one-sided story of parents who got what they deserved or overly entitled adult children who wrongly blame their parents. However, the reasons for estrangement are far more complex and varied. As a result of rising rates of individualism, an increasing cultural emphasis on happiness, growing economic insecurity, and a historically recent perception that parents are obstacles to personal growth, many parents find themselves forever shut out of the lives of their adult children and grandchildren.

As a trusted psychologist whose own daughter cut off contact for several years and eventually reconciled, Dr. Joshua Coleman is uniquely qualified to guide parents in navigating these fraught interactions. He helps to alleviate the ongoing feelings of shame, hurt, guilt, and sorrow that commonly attend these dynamics. By placing estrangement into a cultural context, Dr. Coleman helps parents better understand the mindset of their adult children and teaches them how to implement the strategies for reconciliation and healing that he has seen work in his forty years of practice. Rules of Estrangement gives parents the language and the emotional tools to engage in meaningful conversation with their child, the framework to cultivate a healthy relationship moving forward, and the ability to move on if reconciliation is no longer possible.

While estrangement is a complex and tender topic, Dr. Coleman's insightful approach is based on empathy and understanding for both the parent and the adult child.

April 22 • 8PM ET

Dr. Baker will be speaking to us on the identification of alienation. There is both parental alienation and grandparent alienation. Not all children or grandchildren who reject a parent or grandparent are alienated. it is not possible to tell based on the child's rejection whether the child is alienated, estranged, or a combination of both. This talk will represent the four-factor model for identification of parental alienation. The purpose of the talk is to provide the listener with the information necessary for determining whether a child is alienated or not. the information can also be used for figuring out how to prepare evidence for one's attorney and the courts, including types and level of evidence. ​

 Dr.Amy J.L. Baker has a PhD in Development Psychology from Teachers College of Columbia University. She is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in parental alienation and psychological maltreatment of children. She is the author or co-author of 8 books and over 115 articles. Some of her books are Adult children of parental alienation, surviving parental alienation, co-parenting with a toxic ex, and the high conflict custody battle. She has conducted trainings for legal and mental health professionals around the country.

April 29 • 8PM ET

Every year nearly 1,000 U.S. children are kidnapped by a parent to a foreign country and cut off from the only life they know. Since 1994 more than 475 have been kidnapped to Japan. The last time I saw my only child, the last time I heard his voice, was Father’s Day 2010 when I dropped him off to visit his mother. Tune in to learn more about this ongoing crisis, prevention, and efforts to end international parental child abduction. In addition to being an award-winning filmmaker, 

Jeffery Morehouse, volunteers much of his time as Executive Director of Bring Abducted Children Home (www.bachome.org). According to U.S. Government figures more than 475 American children have been kidnapped by a parent to Japan since 1994. Bring Abducted Children Home is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the immediate return of internationally abducted children being wrongfully detained in Japan. It also strives to end Japan's human rights violation of denying children unfettered access to both parents. BAC Home works to increase public awareness through outreach on the crisis of international parental child abduction. He collaborates with an alliance of international partners working to end child abduction to and within in Japan. He is also a founding partner in The Coalition to End International Parental Child Abduction (www.endchildabduction.org) uniting organizations to work passionately to end international parental kidnapping of children through advocacy and public policy reform. In July 2022, U.S. Senate Resolution 568, noted, “the Coalition to End International Parental Child Abduction, through dedicated advocacy and regular testimony, has highlighted the importance of this issue to Congress and called on successive administrations to take concerted action to stop international parental child abduction and repatriate kidnapped United States children.” Between 2015-2021 he testified and briefed the U.S. Congress eight times. Most recently on September 29, 2021 in The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and December 10, 2018 in the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on Japan’s systemic failure to return kidnapped children. In October 2022 he briefed the United Nations Human Rights Committee on parental child abduction and loss of access within and to Japan. This resulted in the UN reporting Japan should, introduce necessary measures. Since 2011 he has led hundreds of policy meetings on Capitol Hill, The Department of Justice, The Department of State, foreign embassies and The White House. In 2022 he contributed to the updated, “When Your Child is Missing: A Family Survival Guide 5th Edition, 2022". The guide is provided by the AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program, an initiative of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. He has testified as an expert witness in the California and Florida family courts on prevention cases. Information about his son’s 2010 kidnapping to Japan and efforts to locate him and reunite are at: www.bringmochihome.wordpress.com and www.bachome.org/mochi-morehouse/ Though his U.S. sole custody order was recognized as legal by courts in Japan in 2014 and 2017, his son “Mochi” Atomu Imoto Morehouse (井本 _歩⼟夢) remains kidnapped and cut off from him. He believes it is important for parents of internationally kidnapped children to strategically engage in raising the level of awareness this human and family rights crisis.