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...]
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...]
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...]
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