It's been over two weeks since Britney Spears' standoff meltdown that ended with her in a hospital and without any contact with her kids.
Still, the Blackout singer has not reached out and spoken with parents Lynne and Jamie, a Spears family source told E! Online Friday.
"Right now, the family is just focused and praying on Britney getting the help she needs," the source said.
Since the Jan. 3 incident, Spears has remained in Los Angeles with a tight circle of friends that includes her current boyfriend, paparazzo Adnan Ghalib, and manager Sam Lutfi.
She has not seen her sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James, and she skipped a court date earlier this week that could have won her restored visitation. The boys will remain with Kevin Federline at least until the next hearing, on Feb. 19.
Meanwhile, Dr. Phil McGraw, who came under fire from the Spears family for planning to do a Brit-centric special, has admitted he made a mistake.
"Was it helpful to the situation? Regrettably, no. It was not, and I have to acknowledge that, and I do," McGraw told his audience during a Thursday Dr. Phil taping, according to USA Today.
"I definitely think if I had it to do over again, I probably wouldn't make any statement at all. Period."
The episode will air Monday.
McGraw has maintained that, at the behest of her parents, he visited Spears while she was still hospitalized. He spoke briefly with the troubled songbird, announced she was "in dire need of medical and psychological intervention" and then said he planned to do a very special Dr. Phil devoted to Spears.
But the family called foul, saying the TV shrink was attempting to exploit the situation, and he eventually scuttled the episode.
Contacted by E! Online on Friday, family spokeswoman Lou Taylor said she "stand[s] by the statement" she made on The Today Show earlier this month.
"What's wrong with Dr. Phil's statement is that he made a statement," Taylor, the business manager for Jamie and Lynne, said at the time.
"The family basically extended an invitation of trust for him to come in as a resource to support them, not to go out and make public statements. Any statements publicly that he made, because he was brought in under this cloak of trust, are just inappropriate. We feel like, to set the record straight, we need to say that."
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