• It creates insensitivity and leads to abuse.
   

• It crushes the self-esteem of the persons being alienated from each other.
   

• It creates a negative lack of appeal to one another as family members.
   

• It creates dysfunctional family problems, systems, and abusive family patterns that carry forward into future generations.

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• It distorts the healthy view and purpose of family.

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• It causes fear, shame, and guilt.
   

• It causes constant friction, dissatisfaction, depression, and anxiety.
   

• It causes false fantasies in the alienator's mind of absolute power and control.
   

• It affects all family members whether the alienator believes it, or not.  True trust, love, and respect are destroyed even between family members who are not involved in the alienation.
   

• It leads to divorce and eventual total breakdown of the family.
  
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