Rejected petition Legally recognise 'Parental Alienation' as a medical illness within Family Court

On May 25, the World Health Organization (WHO) included “parental alienation” as a “caregiver-child relationship problem” Code QE.52 in ICD-11, the International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision. ICD-11 comes into effect on Jan. 1, 2022 and now ask it be legally recognise it within UK Court.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

We're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do and what effect recognising parental alienation would have on the courts.

You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do or you might like to sign this petition instead

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/249833

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 28 July 2019
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.