Australia proposes a Family Law that has nothing to do with families or the law and will not protect children or parents regardless of gender. The Family Law Amendment Bill 2023 is an anti-family, anti-child proposal. It does not reflect social and community expectations about the role of family relationships in protecting and nurturing … [Read more...]
Alienation Abuse: Suddenly She Wanted to See Her Father
"D" (identity suppressed )is an alienated father. He couldn't believe his luck when his 15-year-old daughter suddenly wanted to spend the weekend with him but it turned out to be alienation abuse. She had refused to see him ever since his ex-partner declared to him, with their daughter by her side, that their relationship was over and he should … [Read more...]
Response to UN Special Rapporteur’s Call for Input: Custody Cases, Violence against Women and Children
False Presumptions about Violence Against Women and Parental Alienation The Special Rapporteur's Call for Input on Violence against Women and Violence Against Children is ideologically biased against parental alienation. It relies on faulty and false presumptions and denies the long-established evidence and research base for parental alienation … [Read more...]
False Allegations and Parental Alienation in Australian Family Law
False allegations may be used as a defence against parental alienation in Australian Family law. False allegations may include family violence, child sexual abuse, mental illness, and parental neglect. Targeted parents may need to allow the parents making false allegations to implicate themselves. Targeted parents are in danger from false claims … [Read more...]
Family Violence Orders: Should You Really Apply For Them?
In our work with targeted -alienated parents, we have found that alienating parents may allege family violence against them. They may subject them to multiple Family Violence Protection Orders to exclude them from a relationship with their children. Such orders include intervention orders, apprehended violence orders or violence restraining orders. … [Read more...]
False Allegations in Parental Alienation Cases: Misleading Family Law
False allegations of family violence and child sexual abuse potentially mislead family violence protection services and Family Law in cases of parental alienation. They create significant child safety concerns in parental alienation cases. Alienating parents risk losing parental care and responsibility for their children when the forensic … [Read more...]
POLICY BRIEF: Rethinking Gendered Models of Family Violence
Why Gendered Theories of Family Violence Are As Contestable—If Not More So—Than Parental Alienation Theory Like many social science presentations, gendered theories of family violence and parental alienation may be considered contested concepts. They both rely fundamentally on the subjectivity of lived experience and assessment of structural … [Read more...]
IPV, Tired and Misleading Tropes From the AIFS
The report on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) released in June 2025, relies on tired, male-gendered tropes that skew its findings and may mislead the public and policymakers. It reports that in 2022, one in three Australian men used IPV, mostly against their female partners or family members. … [Read more...]
NOT A National Suicide Prevention Strategy For Parental Alienation!
Australia's National Suicide Prevention Strategy has now been published, but it is not for men or women dying from suicide due to disrupted family relationships from parental alienation during separation and divorce. Australia’s National Suicide Prevention Strategy is gendered. It fails to address the leading causes of male suicide, … [Read more...]
Parental Alienation: Focus on The 2025 Australian Federal Election
Reform Family Law For 2025! Ignoring the Costs at YOUR Expense! According to USA population projections1, 1.3% of Australians may be parents who have been moderately or severely alienated from their children. In 2024, that equates to more than 350,000 parents and possibly 700,000 children2. UK research3 and USA projections suggest … [Read more...]
Withdrawing the Building Family Bridges™ Workshop from Australia
We no longer provide the Building Family Bridges™ Workshop and the adjunct After Care Protocol in Australia. We previously provided these services for Family Law in Australia to remediate child psychological abuse and severely alienated parent-child relationships. The principal reasons are: Adverse Changes to the Australian Family Law Act … [Read more...]
Proxy Murder: How Parental Alienating Behaviours Lead to Suicide
What Happens to Mothers and Fathers whose Relationships with their Children Are Disrupted? They Die From Suicide. A recent study in the U.K. found a direct link between parental alienating behaviours, and suicidality in parents exposed to those behaviours (Hine,B., Harman, J., Led-Elder, S., Bates, E., 2024). Parental alienating behaviours … [Read more...]
Alienated Parent Suicide may be Death by Family Violence (Amended)
Are Alienating Parents Implicated in Family Violence by Suicide? * Amended article: Suicide is a major public health issue. It has not been considered a crime for some time. Targeted-alienated parents, or other people dying by suicide associated with alienation, family violence or mental health distress are not involved in a crime or wrong … [Read more...]
What Happens When Men become Alienated from their Children?
An introduction to a male health perspective on alienation, alienated fathers and the role of policy and the law I am pleased to discuss parental alienation's terrible effect on men's mental and physical health with Professor Gary Wittert in this podcast. Mental and Physical Health Professor Wittert specialises in male health and health … [Read more...]
Parental Alienation: The Cancel Culture No-one Talks About
Implications for Family and Society A Call to Action against Parental Cancel Culture A shout-out to address the cancel culture destroying parents' and children's identities. Parental alienation behaviours coerce children into stigmatising and then rejecting their targeted parent. Stigmatisation de-identifies a parent. It is indicated when … [Read more...]
A Social and Political Map For Parental Alienation
The Politics of Alienation: A social and political map for parental alienation in families locates it with other societal alienation and family and domestic violence as a serious social and public health issue. The science of alienation is valid. We now have to allocate resources to prevent alienation from rupturing a child's family … [Read more...]
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