Erasing Family (2020): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2020, Erasing Family is a documentary film directed by Ginger Gentile, running about 92 minutes.

What it’s about. This documentary exposes the failure of family courts to keep children from being used as a weapon after separation. Courts decision ends up completely erasing one parent, causing severe emotional trauma to children. Psychologist refer to extreme cases as parental alienation, which is a form of Child Psychological Abuse. Essentially brainwashing and manipulating children by one parent to hate or despise the other parent. This results in severe psychological damage based on scientific findings, including depression, low self esteem, drug abuse, being alienated from own children and suicide. Family court reform is badly needed, as this is preventable pandemic affecting over 20 million children in the United States (Harman et al).

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.0/10, Erasing Family has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. In US you can stream it on fuboTV, YouTube TV and DocuramaFilms Amazon Channel and rent or buy it from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies and YouTube. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Erasing Family page.

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