On Sunday, August 3, 2025 @ 8 PM EDT, Family Access-Fighting for Children's Rights will present Melanie Gill in a webinar titled "The Destruction of the Sibling Bond when Natural Roles are Replaced with Strategic Ones ".  This will air exclusively on our Families Divided TV YouTube channel. 

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To the outside world, we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were, we know each other’s hearts, we share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys.’ ‘Parental alienation can deeply disrupt sibling relationships, both in the short term and across the lifespan. When one parent manipulates even if inadvertent, a child to reject the other parent, it comes with emotional pressure, distorted beliefs, and divided loyalties that ripple through sibling dynamics. Our assumptions about the love between brothers and sister or sibling rivalry are turned on their head in these cases. The effects of PA are unique and often hidden. Attachment science shows what’s really happening.

‘Melanie Gill is a UK -based attachment specialist, psychologist, and forensic consultant. She uses evidenced based assessments with a focus on attachment science. She specializes in assessing adults, adolescents, families and children, formulating, and monitoring treatment and intervention plans, and uses innovative multi-disciplinary approaches that seek to assess attachment dynamics resulting in psychological problems, psychopathology, and risk, as effectively as possible. Her work places an emphasis on understanding the often-complex history behind an existing family dynamic, on the basis that a child cannot be assessed in vacuum, nor can parents and adults be understood separately from their children, other family members and their family history. She has been a political campaigner for children for many years and has recently been made Head of Psychology at The Change for Children International, an organization finding novel solutions to family court cases, and she continues to work as an Expert Witness. She is passionate about bringing psychological science and knowledge into Family Courts to improve the lives and understanding of complex families and how all humans develop.