It's really important. What we're asking for is to ban accusations of parental alienation. If we go the route of making parental alienation illegal, we're going to end up like Brazil and Mexico, where they're seeing that women are being punished for disclosing abuse.
I don't know which definition you were reading from, but the idea that parental alienation is distinguished in practice from realistic estrangement due to violence is not the case. Parental alienation is not distinguished from family violence. In scientific literature, there is no objective, reliable instrument to distinguish the two. It comes down to just an opinion.
The problem is that every time we say that this child has been alienated by their mother—it's often the mother who is accused—it could very well be, and often is, that the child is actually reacting to the father's violence, yet it's the mother who is being punished.
I'll follow up with a brief to this committee addressing some of the frequently asked questions on what the science does and doesn't show, but it's really important to know that the accusations are being used to punish victims.