Why is the Wendy Williams Guardianship important to every woman? How did she lose her freedom?
Abstract This essay relies on Wendy Williams’ guardianship as a current case study to illustrate broader issues in adult guardianship, demonstrating how such regimes can become a criminalized tool of protection and turn into a structure of enhanced control that denies the individual freedom and autonomy of choice and financial self-sufficiency. It contends that guardianship […]
Predatory Daughters: the Art of Parental Alienation. Comparative Study: Meghan Markle’s Abandonment of Her Father’s Family and Wendi Adelson’s Abandonment of Her Mother
Abstract This paper elaborates an interdisciplinary explanation of intergenerational and grandparental alienation as a type of relational coercion that the existing institutional environment can reinforce. It suggests that, in addition to interpersonal conflict, alienation can be held in check by narrative, therapeutic, media, and family-law processes, especially when a more or less uniform set of […]
Children of Silence: Family Estrangement as a Child-Centered Legal and Psychological Case Study
Abstract Family estrangement arising from high-conflict family disputes is most often examined through the competing rights and conduct of adults, particularly within custody and visitation litigation. This adult-centered framing obscures the developmental, psychological, and relational consequences experienced by children who lose meaningful relationships with parents or extended family members. This article presents a case-based analytical […]