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...]
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...]
The Alienated Society Ends Here
Why Private Suffering Must Become Political Action A father recently left a comment on my website asking how any of my essays apply in the real world. What, he asked, can a father like him do to protect his children from what he experiences as systemic child trafficking? I would not use that phrase as my policy description. But I understand … [Read more...]
Open Letter to Aspiring Ministers for Men in Public Office
Before You Accept the Title, Understand the Job Australia is beginning to appoint ministers, envoys and shadow ministers for men. That could matter. It could also become another symbolic accommodation: a new title attached to old policy habits, a few grants, a men’s health campaign, a promise to get men talking, and no serious reckoning with … [Read more...]
Essay: The Child is Still in the Middle: Parental Alienation, Domestic Abuse and the Battle for the Future of Family Policy
A call to the domestic abuse field to accept conceptual parity with parental alienation, and to embrace evidentiary governance and relational ethics in family policy The Child is Still in The Middle This essay is more direct than my recent writing on relational ethics and future families. I have mostly avoided the parental alienation versus … [Read more...]
New White Paper Calls for a Social and Public Health Policy Framework for Alienation in Families
Parental alienation cannot be addressed only through courts, clinicians and private family disputes. It requires prevention, early identification, accessible remediation and institutional accountability. Dialogue in Growth has released White Paper No. 2, Beyond the Psycho-Legal Paradigm: A Social and Public Health Policy Framework for … [Read more...]
New White Paper: Parental Alienation, Relational Harm and the Future of Families
The family of the future need not be nuclear, traditional or fixed. But it must not become a social form in which children’s safe and meaningful relationships are made disposable. Dialogue in Growth White Paper No. 1 argues that parental alienation is not only a post-separation family-law issue. It is a warning about what happens when … [Read more...]
UPDATE: A Suicide Prevention Blind Spot: Family Relationship Rupture and DFSV
Why the DFSV–Suicide Inquiry Must Widen Its Lens: Supplementary Submission to the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs By Stan Korosi, PhDDialogue in Growth | Policy and social analysis Australia’s new parliamentary Inquiry into the relationship between domestic, family and sexual … [Read more...]
PASG 2026 Perth, Australia: Our Keynote Speakers
International Parental Alienation Conference Focusing on Families, Family Relationships and Preventing Harm. I am one of several keynote speakers, featuring the next parental alienation conference, PASG 2026, to be held in Perth, 11-13 October 2026. This conference will continue to provide a platform to present the latest developments in the … [Read more...]
Challenging the “Contestability” Claims About Parental Alienation
The word “contestable” and the notion of "contestability" are increasingly used as a political lever to delegitimise parental alienation (PA) in government and court settings. Yet, gendered theories of family violence (GFV) are largely untouched by the same standard. The brief responds to reporting that in 2025, a … [Read more...]
Parental Alienation: Shaping the Future of Families
—and Policy must catch up Parental alienation (PA) is not just a private family dispute but a structural social phenomenon. It is actively reshaping family relationships, family narratives, and the future configuration of families. How is Parental Alienation a Problem? One parent uses PA behaviours (PABs) to manipulate a child into … [Read more...]
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