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Alienating parent tries to ally with their children and tries to separate them from the other parent. The purpose of the parental alienation might be making the relationship of the children and the other parent more difficult - or even to break the bond. Parental alienation is especially common with high conflict divorce families and in child-custody disputes. Approximately 10 – 30 % of these high-risk families confront parental alienation. The prevalence of parental alienation in Finland has not yet been researched. In this review, I evaluated the evidence of what factors might have led to parental alienation and if those factors are identical to those causing the divorce. In this review, I considered what are the long-term effects of parental alienation to child’s welfare and if these effects are the same as the general effects of experiencing parent’s divorce. Parental alienation had significant long-term effects on low self-esteem, social problems, higher risk of the child experiencing their own divorce, abuse in the childhood, alcohol and drug problems, being less educated and unemployed and later being alienated from their own children. Through this review, I will deal with the general issues within the parental alienation research.