But before we get into discussing serious matter, let me ask you a couple of questions? Is it important for parents to know best appropriate divorce parenting practices? What benefits children or/and parents can get if there is, by employing best appropriate divorce parenting practices? I will leave those questions hanging into your mind but please make your answers as vivid as possible such that you will no longer mind time and read rest of this article.

Let's go back to business. First, you need to understand how infants react to divorce. Knowing how infants react to divorce will bring you to a better position of knowing best appropriate divorce parenting practices you can do for your child.

So, how is infant affected by divorce? Infants do not understand divorce but they can pick up on changes in their parent's feelings and behavior. When a parent acts worried or sad around an infant, infant is likely to feel worried or sad.

Infants cannot tell adults how they feel. Yes, they can pick up their parent's feelings but they still cannot tell us how they feel. As a result, infants may act more fussy and difficult to comfort, or seem uninterested in people or things when their parents are upset relative to divorce.

Infants of age 6 to 8 months develop stranger anxiety. They may act fearful or anxious around unfamiliar people. After divorce, an infant may see one parent less often than before, so infant may show stranger anxiety around that parent.

Infants of age 8 to 12 months may begin to show separation distress. Infants may cry, scream or cling when a parent is leaving. It is hard for an infant to be separated from a parent, especially for a long period of time, such as overnight. When parents divorce, infants may experience more separations and feel less secure. You may notice an increase in your infant's separation distress during divorce process.

Other parents may subconsciously alienate children from other parent. But whether there is a deliberate move or not to alienate children from other parent, same thing will happen. Children will always suffer. Remember children generally fare best when they have emotional support and ongoing involvement of both parents and parental alienation must be put to an end.

The good news is we can prevent devastating effects of parental alienation. The key is to begin recognizing symptoms of parental alienation. After reading list below, don't get discouraged when you notice that some of your own behaviors have been alienating. Instead, let list help sensitize you to how you are behaving and what you are saying to your children.

1. Denying existence of other parent. This include actions like denying other parent photo's within children's room, avoiding conversations with other parent, ignoring other parent in public and refusing visitation.

2. Criticizing other parent. This include actions like speaking negatively about other parent in front of children, speaking negatively about other parent's family and friends, and comparing your children to other parent in a negative way.

3. Placing your children in middle. This include actions like using them as a messenger, having them act as spies, discussing adult issues in front of or with your children and arguing in front of children.

4. Setting up other parent to fail. This include actions like failing to inform other parent of important events, laughing at or making jokes about other parent, encourage children to disobey other parent and blaming divorce on other parent.

5. Resisting or refusing to cooperate by not allowing other parent access to school or medical records and schedules of extracurricular activities.