A New Direction Over the past several months, a particular line of work has taken clearer shape. Many of you will know me through Dialogue in Growth and my work on family relationships, post-separation harm, parental alienation, institutional failure, suicide prevention, and the social conditions that turn private suffering into public … [Read more...]
Family Law Amendment Bill 2023: An Anti-Family and Anti-Child Law
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...]
Important security notice: fraudulent, scam and phishing emails
I have become aware that fraudulent messages may be using my name, email address, or the names of Dialogue in Growth and The Relational Justice Project™ to obtain money or personal information. Our Policy on fraudulent, scam and phishing communications Please be assured: Neither I, Dialogue in Growth, The Relational Justice Project™, nor … [Read more...]
Urgency should trigger responsibility, not end it.
Australian institutions can act urgently to protect a child but remain unclear about who must gather the evidence, review the restriction, correct the record and repair avoidable harm afterwards. Human rights must protect people from dangerous relationships They must also prevent interim action, institutional delay or error from causing … [Read more...]
From Relational Rupture to Relational Justice: A PASG2026 Conversation
Dr Stanley Korosi introduces The Relational Justice Project™ and asks how parental alienation research can contribute to safer practice, better law and accountable policy. Dr Stanley Korosi will speak at PASG2026, the international conference of the Parental Alienation Study Group, in Perth from 11–13 October 2026. His presentation will … [Read more...]
What should Australia’s next domestic violence plan actually do?
Six practical reforms for safety, evidence and institutional accountability. A government plan to end domestic violence can count services, programs and reports. The more important question is what its interventions produced: These questions are not abstract. The stakes are life and death. The next Action Plan must respond seriously to … [Read more...]
When policy decides what harm it is permitted to see
The latest essay from The Relational Justice Project™ asks a prior question Australia is developing the next phase of the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children. The consultation asks necessary questions about prevention, evidence, children’s safety, institutional capability and the creation of more connected … [Read more...]
The Relational Justice Project: From Opens to a Constituency.
Why The Relational Justice Project is about more than readership The Relational Justice Project is growing. Most of those subscribers have come through the Dialogue In Growth community. That tells me something important. There is an audience for the proposition that family relationships are social infrastructure and that relational harm … [Read more...]
What Does Relational Injustice Look Like?
I have published a short note on The Relational Justice Project asking: what does relational injustice look like? Read about some examples of relational injustice at :https://substack.com/@alienatedtoo/note/c-290336920?r=3rl5f5&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web Dialogue In Growth readers who want to follow the development … [Read more...]
The Relational Justice Project: What alienation takes from children
The Relational Justice Project has now reached its third essay:This essay turns directly to the child. Debates about separated families are too often conducted as contests between adults, institutions, ideologies and legal categories. The child is invoked constantly, but not always understood relationally. Family Relationships are Social … [Read more...]
Open Letter to Ministers for Women
The Emergence of Ministers for Men is Not a Threat — It is a Test of Whether Gender Policy can Grow Up The emergence of ministers, envoys and shadow ministers for men should not be treated as a threat to women’s policy or competition for resources. It should be treated as a test of whether Australia’s gender-policy architecture is mature … [Read more...]
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