PAS is very real, and as bad as it is on the effected parent, it is SO much worse on the child in the long run.
My ex started a systematic program of alienate my daughter from me a year before the word divorce was ever mentioned. It was part of her very well extensive plan to screw me over in every possible way, I mean who plans a divorce in secret for over a year?
Thanks peejcrafter for bringing up this important subject, and I am SO sorry you are having to go through this.