Caring for Men and boys. In this episode I return to the subject of parental alienation and in particular to the four criteria for identifying the phenomenon that are included in Amy Baker’s 2018 paper; the title of her paper is ‘Reliability and Validity of the Four-Factor Model of Parental Alienation’ and there is a link to it in the episode notes. The third of Baker’s four-factors identifies 17 alienating behaviours exhibited by an alienating parent.

Good guy of the week is Jay Flynn whose modest pub quizzes, became an online phenomenon, in a most unexpected way, after lockdown began last year; and he has received an unexpected reward.