Parental alienation syndrome: impacts on mental health generated in the case of Karen Atala and the children Denise Marques Alexandre, Jéssica Silva Gottschalk, Patrícia Elizabeth Widmer Costa, Valéria Nancy Freitas, Corina Lopes Ribeiro, Sarah Fernandes Santana, Patrícia Cristina Vasques Gorisch

Abstract

The study approaches Karen Atala´s case demonstrating how sexual orientation reflects on parental stigmatization and violates human rights. The case is well known in the LGBTI+ community because it talks about the judicial process that took custody of her daughters based on discriminatory thoughts, violating the kids interest. However, it portrays the international responsibility of the State discriminating due to sexual orientation as well as arbitrary involvement in the family private life, based hypothetically the LGBTI+ human rights are granted on de lately inter american system. The purpose is to analyze Karen´s case, an approach to the psychological aspects of the parental alienation based on human rights violation by the Chilean government and homoaffective rights. Regarding the methodology, it was based on bibliography and documentary research, such as the decision that rise the problem.