The divorce process represents an especially stressful period of life for the children as well as the parents. Very often during a high-conflict divorce parents manipulate their children to achieve their own goals; to alienate their child from the other parent. With the aforementioned as the starting point, this paper is based on studying the reactions of children to their parents' divorce. The paper also provides an overview of the children's rights during and after their parents' divorce and further explores the best interest of the child. Furthermore, the main and elementary part of this paper refers to manipulation of the children in the divorce process in which different forms of manipulation and their aftermaths are shown. The manipulation of the child during the divorce can have far-reaching consenquences on their psychosocial development which can be apparent in their adult years. Consequentially it leads to the parental alienation syndrome, which is actually related to the difficulties which are manifested in the child's behaviour because of the intentional or unintentional parent's behaviour. At the end, the paper provides an overview of experiences of good practices in working with manipulative parents and emphasis is made on the importance of conducting professional and advisory work, educations and supervisons, but also the necessity of changes in the whole system.