Velayeti olmayan babaların boşanma ve velayet sonrası deneyimleri: Ebeveyn yabancılaşması ile ilgili fenomenolojik bir çalışma

Parental alienation is one of the outcomes that divorced families may experience during and after the divorce process. In parental alienation, the child is consciously alienated from the targeted parent by the targeting one by using different strategies and manipulations. By using family systems theory as the fundamental framework, the current study explores the experiences of noncustodial fathers in the context of parental alienation after the divorce and custody processes from a multidisciplinary lens. Seven fathers, who scored higher on the Rowland Parental Alienation Scale than the average score of the sampling pool that is consisted of noncustodial fathers, were purposefully selected. Parental alienation experiences of fathers were clustered by using interpretative phenomenological analysis, and it yielded six group experiential themes: "Ways of parental alienation", "Fathers' psychological outcomes", "Father-child relationship outcomes", "Experiences with professional services", "Gender-based inequality", and "Ways to light up darkness", and a total 24 subthemes. Current study findings are discussed in the context of the family systems theory, existing literature around divorce and parental alienation, strengths, limitations, future research directions, and clinical and legal implications.